The Stone Roses’ Mani recounts infamous bass-throwing incident just weeks before death at age 63

The Stone Roses' Mani recounts infamous bass throwing incident just weeks before death at age 63Source Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

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00:00That was the Midtown Music Festival in Atlanta, in Georgia.

00:04Guy might know it.

00:05It's still going on now.

00:07It's right in the city center of Atlanta.

00:09It's a brilliant festival.

00:10It's our first ever US gig.

00:12We never toured the first album because of one thing or another

00:15with the Unmentionable Manager.

00:17So it's red hot, right?

00:18And, you know, sometimes you have tuning problems when it's too hot

00:20and your bit flattered or sharpened or what have you.

00:23And I kept giving it to my roadie Phil Smith, who works for Oasis now,

00:26and he kept tuning me then, giving me different guitars,

00:28and it still sounded out of tune.

00:30Anyway, I subsequently found out that it wasn't my bass going out of tune.

00:34It's my bass was out of tune with Ian's voice.

00:37And you couldn't hear anything and no one could hear anything.

00:40And that was a weird one.

00:42Anyway, it was a nice Gibson, the SG-shaped bass, was it an EB-3?

00:49Loved it, threw it, and the head smashed on it, didn't it?

00:53Absolute knobhead.

00:54Never done it again.

00:55I've never disrespected my guitar ever again since that day.

00:59Man, it's...

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