21st November 2024

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Frankenbass: Reviving a Relic from Afghanistan

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Several years ago my husband was stationed in Afghanistan. He rescued a sad, abandoned bass tagged with a stencil of his unit and brought it home to me, disassembled. To the best of my abilities, I attached the neck to the body and checked it for signs of neglect. Its pickups were not secured to the body of the bass at all, and shaking the bass caused the worst maraca sound. I was afraid to even plug it into an amp. Besides the electronics, it was in decent shape and was playable. I decided that this bass would be my “frankenbass.” A monster I would experiment with, and hopefully bring it inner peace.

The Art of Perseverance

As an Artist, perseverance is everything.

There is no better time than now, during the chaos of this pandemic, protests and incredibly turbulent political landscape, to remember this.

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