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”. First off, Guitar World notices that his bass is missing its third string. So, has Malkmus done what many see as an impossible task and somehow snapped a bass string, only to then use it as a strap instead? There was no mention of a guitar string bass strap, however, so perhaps that’s a more recent innovation. Or how about a guitar strap with a built-in bottle opener?