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05-15-2007, 02:41 PM
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Warshin' out the lows
Does anyone know how to make a washtub bass? Or has anyone made one before? I have a pole and a washtub, now what?
Does a Metallica Bluegrass cover band exist? The answer, yes. ps. This is not my band...yet. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fbEl7XUdNI&NR=1 If you can listen to the whole thing you are a better man than I. 
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05-15-2007, 02:53 PM
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Washtub basses were what the old jugbands used to use. Typically the poorer you were back in the day the more ingenious you became in creating them. People would make them out of huge pig feeders, family size campbell cans etc.
Or the modern day cheapskate variant, the cardboard bass: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6cTbaBApM4
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05-15-2007, 02:55 PM
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That's pretty cool, but how the crap do I make one? I already have a washtub.
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05-15-2007, 03:07 PM
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05-15-2007, 04:00 PM
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Sweet, thanks dolivas! Got go wash my lows...
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06-12-2007, 10:52 AM
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This reminds me of the "household objects" album Pink Floyd was working on after Dark Side. They used only things found around the house to try to make it; but they only completed 2 tracks because "it was just too difficult to make a box sound like a snare."
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