Off Topic Greasin' Your Bass Strings (video)

[LawDaddy]

Shonna Tucker, bass player for Drive-By Truckers, demonstrates the proper technique for cooking up some fried chicken and applying the grease to your strings to get some funk in there.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNJ1g18fmwg"]YouTube- Sweet Soul Cookin' With Shonna Tucker[/ame]

 

[danny-79]

I do my best to keep grease off my guitars an off the strings!! , at least take them off the guitar first before trying a wacky home remedy, !!??
She should try the coated strings next if don't like that "new nickle" vibe
Chicken looked good though

 

[five7]

+1

 

[Bean]

 

[LawDaddy]

I think I cried a little when she squeezed the chicken leg over the bass and the crumbs went onto the body.

 

[sloshep]

This is just WRONG!!!!!! They have these strings called flat wounds.... Hello

Don't ever buy a bass from her used... yuck.

And you guys thought the basses at Guitar Center were yucky....

 

[ekb16b]

She ruined good chicken.

 

[keko]

Oh my God!

I have fetish of dry and washed hands before touching my bass, so this is for me absolutely insane!

P.S. ...of course I've heard that Jaco (R.I.P.) used to grease his fretless Jazz Bass strings with chicken grease for "faster" playing, but this is crazy!

 

[oli@bass]

Gross!

 

[TheAntMan]

I always make sure my hands are clean and dry before playing and keep a clean towel handy when playing. I wipe down my strings every time after playing. I am not sure that she just didn't do that for "shtick" in her cooking show.

Anyway, to each their own. That is why I don't let strangers play my instruments. You don't know what their level of respect for your instrument is. If she came up to try playing my bass, I'd keep her back with my strap like a lion tamer

--Ant

 

[mynan]

They must have stopped airing Jerry Springer reruns...

 

[Thornton Davis]

This is just WRONG!!!!!! They have these strings called flat wounds.... Hello

Don't ever buy a bass from her used... yuck.

She's right when she say's "that's nasty funky, I love funk". That's gotta be the worst thing i've ever seen anyone do to their instrument.

TD

 

[Bean]

...I'd keep her back with my strap like a lion tamer.

Hmm... I'm going to have to practice that move.

 

[RaginRog]

She's Funky, and a moron!

 

[RaginRog]

I'd still like to have a piece of that chicken...just not the one she rubbed on that poor bass.

 

[kylierider]

Girl after my own heart..Play it hard and put it away wet.

I prefer flatwounds, but lets face it fellas, grease does keep the funk in.

And she makes fried chicken just like I do. Good old pan fried

 

[Laredo]

Lol................

She's Funky, and a moron!

Meh, I think maybe I'll just break in my $54.00 set of strings instead!

 

[MK Bass Weed]

Hmmm, what's the matter with you guys?

This is how Bootsy does it...

I think she should have eaten the chicken first, THEN play with the GREEZZY Fingers....

 

[Bean]

Hmmm, what's the matter with you guys?

This is how Bootsy does it...

Still though...

How about we get BP to put "greezy strings" into the Gamechanger tone selector? Two birds, one stone if you ask me... plus you can just eat the chicken and not worry about dirtying the axe.

 

[LawDaddy]

I think the greasy strings thing would go great with his BBQ...