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When you’re on tour you have to know that your gear is realiable and will deliver night after night. After all what use is a trianglist with no triangle or a timbales player without a ruffly sleeved shirt. That’s right, more useless than ususal. That’s why professional musicians pay a premium for their gear. They pay for the reliabilty as well as the signiture sound and style offered by a custom handmade product.
Take this cock and balls bass that we have here. The mahogony shaft paired witht the basswood nutsack delivers a low punchy sound that really plays nicely out of an Ampeg “butthole” R554 amp. It’s a pretty clasic sound that you’ve most likely heard anywhere from the Beatles album Rubber Soul to Mettalica’s new album Death Erectile.
Every piece of this bad boy is functional. The pustules on the right ball are the volume and tone pots which allow the player to change his sound on the fly, bringing this instrument from a soft gentle bumping to a raging hard jamming style sound. The stylized “pubes” also act as a dampener to prevent chains and leather straps from the performer’s vest from hitting the body and strings of the bass guitar. Function over form is mantra in the music biz!
So you see a man’s bass is part of him. It is arguably the most importnat part of him. So the next time you see a bass player at a rock show smach his instument; stomping on and throwing it around. think of this image and this article.
