The story of the PyroMan bass guitar

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White Fender Precision bass. Has been used extensively on the Mark Knopfler ‘Sailing to Philadelphia’ 2001 world tour by Glenn Worf. Glenn bought the bass second hand in San Fransisco in May this year. It’s sole purpose was to perform the song ‘Pyro Man’ which involves a rather violent end scenario in which Glenn drops the bass from a great height. He used to use his sunburst P-bass but he decided to buy a new one to prevent further damage to the sunburst. A great testament to the build quality of new Fender guitars is that the bass survived for nearly the entire tour. Unfortunately, during the show in Oslo (5 from the end) the headstock split irreparably split in 3 places. We decided that it was still worth auctioning as a collectors item and as the proceeds will be going to a very worthy cause. Of course if the new owner still wants to play it, a new neck can easily be fitted. An amazing testament to the design of the Fender precision….The guitar has a rosewood fingerboard, is approximately a couple of years old and although it is basically still in one piece, it is showing signs of extreme wear!

A genuine collectors item.

Everyone in the band signed the PyroBass after the last show at midnight in Moscow.







 
 

The bass was auctioned on e-bay and made £3,777.00 Thanks to all who took part.





NOTE:- All proceeds from this sale were donated to the ‘Teenage Cancer Trust’ charity in the UK.



 

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