When a cheap bass comes in handy

[Dave W]

Man fights off armed thieves with guitar in home invasion

[Basvarken]

That's what a P bass is ideal for.
Don't try this with a Gibson though... 

[doombass]

Yup, keep your p-bass within an arms length distance at all times.

[Pilgrim]

Where P-basses are outlawed, only outlaws will play P-basses.

[Rob]

That's what a P bass is ideal for.
Don't try this with a Gibson though... 

7 pounds of love!

[Dave W]

That's what a P bass is ideal for.
Don't try this with a Gibson though... 

Maybe, maybe not. You never know, when the Gibson headstock flies off, it could put someone's eye out. 

[Chris P.]

I have to think of this old joke now:

Judge: First offender?
Guy: no first a Gibson, then a Fender.

[Highlander]

Spare hickory pick-axe handle by the door works for me... and a couple of vintage Pitcairn Island hardwood walking sticks that live on the landing... old family items... dad had slightly different views... something about them not walking away...

[Dave W]

Spare hickory pick-axe handle by the door works for me... and a couple of vintage Pitcairn Island hardwood walking sticks that live on the landing... old family items... dad had slightly different views... something about them not walking away...

How did anything from Pitcairn Island wind up with you? There must be a good story behind it.

[Highlander]

Granddad Kenny Stewart... he sailed pretty much every sea there is to sail... has a statue in central London that overlooks the Tower of London and Tower Bridge... about as iconic a location as you can have up there... widely regarded as a "living legend"... tough act to follow... he didn't do anything to specific that made him "special" but as he trained Cadets for about 30 of his over 50 years working at sea and living near it... survived a German torpedo that took out his minesweeper in WW1 and a German mine in the Bass Straits in WW2... his statue is one of two that act as "gate-guardians" to the memorial for those that died at sea in the service of the Merchant Navy in WW2...
Pitcairn... Granddad's primary routes before, during and after WW2 took him across the Atlantic, through the Panama, and across the Pacific to Australia and New Zealand... Fiji and Pitcairn were just stops along the way... the locals on Pitcairn used to row out to the ships and sell all sorts of wares to those on board... I'll pm some pics of them at some point tomorrow, Dave...
Most of the Hebrideans were traditionally sailors, Dave, and that tradition goes back to the Vikings that settled there... the same Vikings that your President is descended from...

[gearHed289]

WOW! What a life he had. 

[4stringer77]

You honor your Granddad and the tribulations he endured by living a good life. I'm sure he'd be proud of you and happy for you as well. I wonder if there are any long lost Stewart branches of the family tree on Pitcairn along with Fletcher Christian's descendants.

[Highlander]

Fairly well documented and none of them are known to be my lot...

Just wish we knew more about him than we do... I have a list and the history of almost every ship he sailed on, including photos of them, excluding a few years before WW1 when he worked the Great Lakes, but not much about the man...

[Dave W]

Yeah, no Stewart branch on Pitcairn. Only about 50 people, ancestry all well known.

[Highlander]

Mind you, I recently discovered another Kenny Stewart on the home island who's a guitarist and turns out to be a cousin... and there's another cousin who's a singer/guitarist of the same name in Sydney... there is also another singer/guitarist in Sydney of the same name... though I don't know if he's a relative... yet...