So I decided to play bass. Now I had to get a bass. I saved up and bought the Series 10 from Park Place Music on Belmont and Harlem for $110. Williams hates this place. They were always nice to me but don't go in there thinking that the customer is always right because in this place, the owner and his bitchy wife r the experts. And they think that people like Williams or I have never held or played a guitar so when u pick something up, they stand right over u so u don't even want to jam on it. It sucks.
So the bass was a great first guitar. Good to learn on. I used it throughout the whole span of Socially Unacceptable. It went thru grueling hot summer practices and below freezing temperatures in Mike Przybylek's garage. So it's a trooper.
After I bought my second bass, I let Jamey Johnson borrow my bass cause he wanted to learn to play and stuff. I didn't see it again for like a year. The bass was a whore. It went from Jamey Johnson to Mike Przybylek, back to Jamey and some other people may have "borrowed" it from them. I think Dave "Scuz" Cozlik had it for a while. And maybe Pat Skoff too. Fucking whore bass. So now it sits in a corner in my apartment getting dusty. I yell at people when they touch it. It has a nasty crack in the neck and if u tuned it properly, it'd probably cave in and just snap. I'm tempted to just smash it but then I think I'd be sad and want it to be sitting in my apartment still so I'm just going to keep it for the memories.
1)grover tuners -- its good to stay in tune, but not as much of a priority when you have a...
2) cardboard input jack -- jamey johnson and i rebuilt the electronics of this bass for plans(which were never realized)of Hilger to smash the thing on stage. the entire input jack mechanism was missing, the jack itself and even the plate and screws that hold it in the guitar. we got an old input jack somewhere and then used a piece of cardboard for the metal plate and held it all together with some electrial tape. it was only intended to last one song, after which hilger would smash it at the end of a set. im glad he didnt, this thing is a relic.
3)cracked headstock -- because the neck of this thing has the strength of a twig, playing, warping from temperature extremes and the tension of the strings alone have caused a crack to form. its about 80% of the way cracked off. you better play some death metal with this thing. you need some low tunings and slack tension to keep this bass from imploding.
4)terrible stickers -- jamey johnson and i also stripped the bass at one point of all of hilger's original stickers (most of which were NOT terrible, a scant few still exist on the back) during a period, a long period at that, in which jamey was in possession of this well-toned piece of craftsmanship(or should i say, CRAPmanship). at some point after me and jamey cleaned it up of its 4 or 5 layers of stickers, the infamous mike p., the frontman of hilger's original band socially unacceptable(see pic below of hilger jamming in mr. p's garage, check the rosemont sign!)came into possession of this trophy of workmanship(or should i say, DOESNTWORKmanship). he then applied many TERRIBLE stickers to said insturment. Including, but not exclusive to:
a)mephaskaphilies (thats not spelled right, but im not very ska either)
b)decendants (suck)
yes indeed, this is the same mike p. who sold me my first guitar ever, the strat.