The Last Bass Outpost

They are rare, admit it! And look nice and this one seems to be in very good shape.

"and to my ears that very same silk muffles the string's high end"

Scientific evidence?!!!  When you scrape it off, does it sound brighter?  There is hardly any movement left in the string so close to the bridge, I doubt that there is anything audible.

But to the discerning eye it might look messy, true.

Well ...  how do you like it, Mark? Let those sheep go for once and tell us!

There is fear now in Germany. Great fear.

Was he in the current line up? Their last album wasn't bad, they were the first grunge band I could actually appreciate. Nirvana, Soundgarden and Pearl Jam eluded me completely, all I ever thought when hearing their stuff was "man, has no-one taught these guys the circle of fifths and which chords should go where?". I really had a hard time listening myself into the grunge genre. To this day, for all their influence, Nirvana leaves me bewildered.

Getting back to Mike Starr: Ruhe in Frieden, but hopefully with enough grunge around him to keep him busy. Kurt Cobain now has a bassist.

I have a handful lesser celebrity basses (Pappalardi, the bass player from Kingdom Come, T.M. Stevens, Me'Shell Nd-whatshername). I can truthfully say that none of them was bought for the celebrity factor, they were all prototypes, one-offs or custom shop raries with the exception of Pappalardi's cherry refinned EB-1 which was at that point just an affordable, non-broken fifties EB-1 to me. It probably means the most to people who don't play an instrument - when they see my collection in the office they inevitably ask "were any of these basses owned by famous people?". I then have to explain to thirty-year olds who Mountain and Felix were, but all that ever interests them is that he was shot by his wife. If I had a bass pre-owned by Jack the Ripper that would be the one for them.

And, no, when I play Felix' EB-1 his ghost does not possess me nor do I speak in strange tongues, I'm still Uwe Hornung with a too small silly-looking bass on me. Given his ultimate fate, I think that is a good thing!
 

You have a hairy point there ... ! - )

To avoid further confusion: Only George "the hunk" Carlston has so far spoiled us with his stallionesque reflections of a member. My pet theory regarding this forum's puzzling obsession with all things chrome has its subliminally homophile (hairy) roots right there. Or to put it more simply: At the end of the day all chrome is closet gay! Face it.