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 Mercy Bass guitar
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Tony Cochran Guitars Custom #42

Some have told me this electric guitar is not the infamous "Mercy Bass." I beg to differ. The Mercy Bass supposedly began life as a P-Bass. This one has the right shape. The Mercy was abandoned as unclaimed mail at the Pontotoc Post Office in Pontotoc, Mississippi. I bought this in Algoma, which isn't far from there. The Mercy got its name from an old Blues group consisting of a drummer, a lead guitar player, and a guy named Erson "Skunkbutt" Flowers who screamed "Mercy" in a guttural, but lyrical, way to announce every song change. He narrowly missed dying one night when a shotgun blast hit his bass instead of his upper intestinal area. He threw the gutshot guitar at the shooter and ran. The attacker received a concussion from the impact and never regained his memory or any functional socialization skills. He was institutionalized and monkeyed around with this bass in the shop for the rest of his days, repairing it with odd bits he found around the Roberson Home for the Criminally Insane. I think this is the Mercy Bass.

Specifications

- Body Style - Solid Body

- Body Shape - P-Bass

- Fingerboard Material  - Rosewood

- Volume Control, Tone Control

- Original Strings

- Design Elements - Leather, Chrome, Lacquered Wood, Aluminum