It's not always the hardware. A pool shark can best you with a mop handle.
This guy melts aluminum cans into a guitar
- Thread starter MelvinWalker
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Exactly right....Look at the patron saint of bassists and one of the best studio bassists to ever exist on this planet, Leland Sklar...He has played on 2000 albums from James Taylor's first album through Phil Collins and hundreds in between.
His main "Frankenstein" bass he has played for years looks like something found in a dumpster.
"Renowned as being one of the most famous basses in the world, the story being Jaco Pastorius' number one instrument is almost as complex and mysterious as Pastorius himself. Hailing from 1962, the Fender Jazz Sunburst "Bass of Doom" was supposedly de-fretted by Pastorius with a butter knife upon purchasing it for $90 in the early '70s, filling the fret slots with plastic wood and applying multiple coats of Poly Poxy to cover up the gouges he created from his home job."
venomballistics
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This thread makes me want to dig out my soldering station and build a hybrid stack in the box
I still have my Weller Station and an assortment of tips.
venomballistics
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At one point, electronics experimentation drove my playing more than anything.
The two interests really can feed each other
