The Hard Quartet bass guitar player Stephen Malkmus has raised eyebrows by using a bass string as a guitar strap onstage with his new supergroup, with his band calling the move “a first in the history of electric bass guitar”.
A video of Malkmus utilizing the string in such an unusual way on his fairly time-worn SG bass surfaced on social media over the weekend – and it’s left a series of questions begging to be asked.
