{"id":1284,"date":"2012-06-05T17:36:18","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T17:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=1284"},"modified":"2012-07-18T15:42:08","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T15:42:08","slug":"tony-cochrans-greyhoundcaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/repair\/tony-cochrans-greyhoundcaster.html","title":{"rendered":"Tony Cochran’s Greyhoundcaster"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tony Cochran’s eccentric take on custom guitar building is like none other. When he gets his hands on an old guitar it takes on a whole-new life. Widgets and gadgets, rivets and thingamajigs.\u00a0His aesthetic is some concoction of Tim Burton and steampunk. Cochran’s guitars look like they come from the cover of a lost sci-fi dystopian paperback featuring a wayward troubadour protagonist.<\/p>\n

And they each have a story. Or a rumor. Believe however much you’d like.<\/p>\n

The latest from Tony Chohran Guitars is the Greyhoundcaster Bass<\/a>. And rumor has it …<\/p>\n

This bass guitar was found in the wreckage of a Greyhound bus that ran off the road in 1951. There were only 6 people on the bus . . . the driver, 2 very deaf women from Huntsville, Alabama, a senator from Maine with his mistress, and a 12 year old off to visit his Grandmother in Tulsa. None checked in a guitar as luggage. There was a hand written note inside the case, on a thin sheet of rice paper. It said, “IT’S NOT MINE”. . . . Weird.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Like all of his builds, the Greyhoundcaster does not sacrifice functionality. It is fully armed and operational.<\/p>\n

Check out more of his otherworldly work at Tony Cochran Guitars<\/a>.<\/p>\n