Why the shitting on the Hartke bass gear?

I had a giant Hartke bass amp for years and it sounded fucking awesome.

Ty Webb wrote:No way any music made with that thing is listenable. No way.

King Crimson's Discipline comes to mind.

As a bassist, I wouldn't mind fucking around with a stick to see what can be done. Just don't photograph me.

n.c. wrote:

DrAwkward wrote:

BadComrade wrote:Guitar strap duct taped to guitar, because those $10 strap-locks are just too much money. Usually goes hand-in-hand with "too lazy to trim strings" look.

Strap locks are Guitar Center dumb. Why trim your strings?

ME NO TRIMMY STRINGYS!!!!!!!!!!

Jad Fair didn't have his strings trimmed when I saw Half Japanese.

Of course, he also didn't tune his guitar. And he had a forest of broken strings still attached to the tuning pegs, along with his unbroken ones.

It was pretty cool.

Totally disagree about duct tape strap locks. Probably b/c I do this myself. Generally, I find tape on the guitar to be a good sign.

Frank Decent wrote:Chapman stick on stage.

Concurrence. Also scarves, concurrence.

I would add:

Beret

ESPECIALLY 'backwards' beret

Any headless instrument is a bad sign. Fretless is a leaner.

DrAwkward wrote:

BadComrade wrote:Band has brought their own lighting

Those early tours by The Faint before they blew up and went to shit were sort of awesome. Their "light show" was a bunch of flood and strobes that they controlled themselves with foot switches. In the basement where i saw them the first time, it was pretty goddamned neat.

The VSS did their own lighting this as well, and Arab on Radar.

steve wrote:Any headless instrument is a bad sign. Fretless is a leaner.

Half-fretless basses, like fretless from the twelfth fret?

What about blood, urine, electrocution, or...animal costumes?

givemenoughrope wrote:What about blood, urine, electrocution, or...animal costumes?

All cool.

steve wrote:

givemenoughrope wrote:What about blood, urine, electrocution, or...animal costumes?

All cool.

I leap out my behind the kit, dressed as a Kangaroo, and toss a bucket of pig's blood on the front row. During the initial seconds of disbelief, I attach jumper cables to the left ear of each person. Flip a switch and let the urine flow like urine. This is all during the setup/line check.

Sign of a bad band?