alright, so I think there's a reunion show fairly solidly in the works for my old band, hatchets are attempting to be buried, after a decade+ and my drunk ass is not without blame and what have you, it's good and time and i'm excited about it. I really hadn't even picked up the bass in probably 10 years, not for real anyways. I think I posted earlier where i had pulled out my old Mike Dirnt P and took it in to get back in order. The neck was pretty good out of whack, it was pretty rusty. I had for a while been thinking about pulling some of the parts off of it and putting it on a new body, doing a phoenix bass kinda thing, but I've been running through old songs and it's feeling pretty great. Goddamn I wish the one instrument I ever used this heavily had had a nitro finish instead of this flaky poly but whatever -
in the long ago -
alive again
G650 posted in the Non-Musical Parent thread and it send me down memory lane remembering an important concert I went to and high school, and some pictures from around that time...
....which made me want to go open the case of doom that has been closed forever. I'm going to blame the alcoholism and maybe Houston weather but I have fucked up more than a few guitars and that bass right there is one of them. I think that had less to do with booze and depression and more with being left at my dad's house and getting moved to the enclosed porch for a while. Anyways, maybe I should restore this thing, maybe instead of paying I guy I'll try my hand at this. I said this case has been closed forever - I think I pretty much stopped using this bass once I got the Dirnt P before going to college and leaving this one behind. I played in the church cross section band in high school, and the case still has loose sheet music from 2004 in it
crossed my fingers on this one....
expiration date of 2005, a little swollen, but it nothing bad seems to have happened. Replaced the battery, plugged it in - the bass is almost in tune. that's unbelievable. bad crackly output, but it works. I need to figure out the best way to try and clean rust off of the pickups at least. I might should just replace all the screws. and the pickup cover for sure.
or maybe i'll just take it to the guy... i should restore this thing though. If i do this I think that'll be the last of my sad case of shame guitars