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Smashmouth Bass guitar
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This electric bass guitar was played by Philip Endicot, who worked for General Radio back in the late 40's - early 50's. He scavenged parts there like a fat man in a bologna factory. His real passion was a 5 piece jazz band he belonged to called "Reform School". This was one of the first jazz groups to go electric in Concord. He would use the pilfered parts on his bass in a quest to find "smashmouth boom". Caught stealing red handed at G.R. in '58, he was sent to jail where he died in a fight over cigarettes, non-filtered Pall Malls to be exact. His brother inherited the bass and stuck it in his attic until 1998 when I bought it at his garage sale. It has the ultra rare contactor, a cool dark tone reed, and the infamous type 740 capacitance test bridge that G.R. was supposedly developing for a guy named Leo in Fullerton. (Never proven.)