{"id":674,"date":"2014-06-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/?post_type=bass&p=674"},"modified":"2026-09-13T08:46:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T08:46:57","slug":"bass-of-the-week-tony-cochran-mercy-bass","status":"publish","type":"bass","link":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/?bass=bass-of-the-week-tony-cochran-mercy-bass","title":{"rendered":"Bass of the Week: Tony Cochran Mercy Bass"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I love instruments that get stylistically creative, and Tony Cochran has a knack for making them. Cochran, who is also the syndicated cartoonist of the comic strip Agnes, has a habit of taking neglected guitars and basses and giving them a new life. <\/p>\n

\u201cI [find] them on Craigslist, at garage sales, and hidden in closets. The guitars remain fully functional. The volume works. The tone knobs tone. The pick-ups pick up. If any part was damaged, I repaired it to work as it was designed I did not alter the ergonomics and I never sacrificed playability for looks.\u201d<\/p>\n

This week we check out the Mercy Bass, which Cochran says began began life as a \u201960s Japanese bass. He gutted the bass and fitted it with an industrial style complete with grills and plates. The pickup was found at a swap meet, and has no markings to identify it.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s just proof that with some imagination, any bass can be made into a piece of art.<\/p>\n

Tony Cochran Mercy Bass Photos:<\/h2>\n
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For more, check out Cochran\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I love instruments that get stylistically creative, and Tony Cochran has a knack for making them. Cochran, who is also the syndicated cartoonist of the comic strip Agnes, has a habit of taking neglected guitars\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2043,"template":"","meta":[],"builder":[],"class_list":["post-674","bass","type-bass","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/bass\/674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/bass"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/bass"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"builder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fbuilder&post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}