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smfulla
12-19-2001, 09:46 PM
ok hear's the story....
one day going over to my mates house, I took my guitar.... I had my guitar in the boot (trunk for all you americans), and when I went to take out the car, i had my guitar strap on it and put it around my neck. I was about to walk into my mates house, when all of a sudden.......
(suspenseful isnt it? lol)
my strap came off the strap button, my guitar fell to the ground (concrete) and bounced up, flipped over, and came to a crash on the ground....
it still works =] thank god! but I was wondering if it would have bent the truss rod (btw, where is it? I think I know where it is, but I wanna make sure) it seems to have made the tone a little deeper, more bassy.
But what I have learned is...
- Don't always trust Ernie Ball
- Listen To Your Mates (he told me it didn't look too good, but I trusted Ernie Ball)
- Invest in a locking strap button (I still haven't done it yet, lol)
Anyone else have some horrific guitar stories to tell?
bobcat
12-19-2001, 11:50 PM
My guitar was in the trunk of my car when I was rear-ended by a drunk driver. He hit me hard enough that the tuning pegs went through the case. One peg was bent, and the guitar has a small scuff to show for it. It held up much better than the car and me!
Lessons I learned:
Put your guitar in the back seat
Never trust speeding headlights that are coming toward your butt!
:p
It's not a horrific guitar story, it's a horrific violin story:
During a concert I played in school I suddenly had to sneeze heavily because of the strong stage lights. Therefore, my electric Fender FV-1 violin slipped away from under my chin and heavily hit the floor. This was probably the most embarassing experience I ever had with music: the sound of sneeze made everyone look at me so that everybody could watch me drop my violin.
Fortunately, the floor was rather soft because it's covered by a wine-red carpet, so there was no real damage to the violin. However, the chord that goes to the amp was somehow ripped out and I had to plug it in again which made a screaming sound - embarassing again.
Another one which makes me laugh about myself whenever I think of it again: two weeks after I had begun playing violin, my teacher had me show him what I've practiced at home. When I was playing, he suddenly told me to hold the bow a bit differently and had me look at him so that he could show me. However, when I turned around my had I lost concentration (of which I needed a lot to control the bow after just two weeks of playing) and somehow manages to stick the bow into my eye.
The following two weeks I had to wear a pirate-like black eye flap...
And what do we learn from this: stick with your guitar and don't ever touch a violin: it's better for your health :)
smfulla
12-20-2001, 02:35 PM
ouch, mate, that musta been sore =/
55'gibby
12-21-2001, 08:56 AM
two quick stories:
years ago I found a Gretch Country Gentleman in a pawn shop and bought it for a song (sorry about the pun). I was over at one of my band mates house, showing it off. After playing around with it I set it on the floor and leaned it against the couch. I came back to it after getting another cold one, reached over to grab it, knocked it over instead. The guitar bounched off a coffee table and into the fire place irons. one flipped over and into the body leaving a DEEP gouge in the body, and the fall on the table put a nasty dent in the back of the neck. moral: use a guitar stand.
This didn't happen to me, but...
I was playing a bar gig and a "patron" (VERY drunk patron at that) asked us to play a song. Being as drunk as he was none of us in the band could understand what he was saying. Several songs later he returned with a equally drunk freind to "request" the same song. Between the ringing in our ears and the drunken mumblings we still didn't get what they were trying to say. A couple of songs into the next set... you guessed it here he comes again. This time we walked over to the bass played (6'5" 375lbs) and punched him somewhere between the knees and navel (where the baby making parts are). The bass player pop the body strap lock off, and smacked him in the mouth with the edge of his Fender Bass, leaving the patrons two front teeth stuck in the body. moral: aim lower
those teeth really stuck in the body??!!
If I was that bass player, I would have left the them stuck in the body. That way, I could have been sure that nobody will ever dare to rant about my playing any more :)
55'gibby
12-21-2001, 11:57 AM
Actually it was one whole tooth and a half a tooth.... oddly enough we were never asked back to play there. I think it was the brawl that broke out after that.... maybe they just were not blues fans. My bet it was the latter.
slaughteredsoul
12-21-2001, 04:38 PM
hehe good one gibby,but that must have hurt like a b****!!!!:eek:
oh deary me.
this happened to me like 3 days ago.
i was playing guitar and getting quite excited cuz my favourite part was coming ....
so i lifted the guitar sideways....and...
....
*SMASH*
the headstock hit my ceiling(roof etc) cuz where my bed is, the ceiling is lower...
ah gosh.
its not that bad now that ive coloured the bit in black but..
seeing as i have to do a moral thingy now..
ill say..
MORAL - NO MATTER HOW EXCITED YOU ARE DONT DO IT ON YOUR BED.
:mad:
slaughteredsoul
01-11-2002, 03:28 PM
Originally posted by fizz
MORAL - NO MATTER HOW EXCITED YOU ARE DONT DO IT ON YOUR BED.
LOL...no comment!
Krieselman13
01-11-2002, 04:25 PM
I have a half assembled home gym in my bedroom, see. I put the lat pull down bar thingy on the top spot for one of the exercises, so it was out of my way.
I was playing guitar for like an hour or so, then when I got up, and heres the sequence of events that followed. The headstock hit the bar- the bar fell onto my stereo- my speaker almost fell to the floor, but I caught it- The bar fell behind my stand with a LOUD bang!
But lucky me- there is no mark to show for it. My Ibanez is pretty tough.
Krieselman13
01-12-2002, 08:25 AM
Big oops, now I just keep it in the corner where it is safer so I can play my guitar without destroying anything.
That violin story is funny as hell......
There's one for the books....
Yeah, that was one of my "not-so-great" hours as a musician. At the time it happened, I was more concerned with swearing, however, later I realised that it was actually quite funny. Whenever I see my violin teacher (I do not take lessons any more), he reminds me of that thing!
Krieselman13
01-20-2002, 08:15 AM
How much did it hurt? Probly did a real lot.
Well, has somebody ever stuck a finger into your eye? Imagine that the finger was made out of wood, flat at the peak (however, rounded and rather thick, comparable to the backside of a teardrop shaped pick, only thicker and rounded) AND that you stuck it in rather forcefully!! -> It hurt like @!%&$§ :)
In the beginning, it wasn't that much fun as it sounds now: at first, it didn't really hurt a lot (probably shock), but the eye went red and tears were running like a waterfall. I finished the lesson, next day, I went to the doctor because it did still hurt a lot. He said that I've hurt something in my eye and that I should treat it with some eye-drops and wear an eyeflap, so that nothing else (like dirt, sand, whatever) could get into the eye and cause an inflammation.
And this was just the physical pain: can you imagine how embarassing it is to hurt yourself severly with your INSTRUMENT? I mean, what would you think if somebody, for example, came up to you with bandages around the head and say this happened because he hit his head with his guitar's headstock?? An eyeflap because of a violin bow isn't much better :)
But basically, it's such a funny story that I've to laugh about it!!
Epithet
04-13-2002, 11:16 PM
I swing my guitar around my head at certain points in myh band's songs. There are small pauses in the music, I swing my guitar and have to start playing immediatly. Because the pasues are short, I swing my guitar rather forcefully.
Well, one time (long time ago) I swung my guitar around my head and THE STRAP BROKE. My guitar went flying behind my back into my friend's guitar case. Luckily, the body was the first thing to hit, and the neck and other parts were saved. additionally, the body is encased in metal, so all I suffered was a dent which I was able to get out.
Now my strap is made out of the thickest leather possible.
Xniper
06-01-2002, 03:37 PM
:p After seeing a guitarist do that on the Lost Prophets - Shinobi vs Dragon Ninja video, i decided to have a go myself. Being a bit of a "*****" i didnt really throw it, I sort off dropped it behind my back and the head hit the floor and the body my sofa behind. Luckily there is no visible damage altough the guitar did go out of tune. But hey, its easy to fix :D
BloodXero
06-01-2002, 05:18 PM
i have a friend that has a homemade guitar spinner like ZZ Top i think it is. well he was playing a song he spun (his first time to try) and the head of the guitar hit him in the face and he blacked out for 5 minutes.
Jools
06-01-2002, 06:33 PM
Originally posted by BloodXero
i have a friend that has a homemade guitar spinner like ZZ Top i think it is. well he was playing a song he spun (his first time to try) and the head of the guitar hit him in the face and he blacked out for 5 minutes.
L_O_L !!!
:D
After seeing a guitarist do that on the Lost Prophets - Shinobi vs Dragon Ninja video, i decided to have a go myself. Being a bit of a "*****" i didnt really throw it, I sort off dropped it behind my back and the head hit the floor and the body my sofa behind. Luckily there is no visible damage altough the guitar did go out of tune. But hey, its easy to fix
hehe, thought id mention that a few of my friends are on that video -
yknow about mid way through, a skateboarder feller does a jump thing from somewhere up high, and 2 girls and a guy (i only respect the guy lol) i know them wahoo, and at the very beginning, you see a quite nice blond, hehe, YEA:D ;)
Creeping_Death
06-02-2002, 05:55 PM
Guitars seem to be pretty tough. My mate got a new guitar, and wanted to smash his old one up like Kurt always seemed to do in vids. It ended up taking an hour and 3 broken paving slabs before we managed to get the neck off...
BloodXero
06-02-2002, 06:43 PM
hahahahaha lol, it matters on the guitar and strength. kurt cobain just let loose as hard as he could and sometimes people got hit with shards of wood. also some guitars are "too good-quality" to smash.
Creeping_Death
06-03-2002, 06:05 AM
the guitar was a squire strat
BloodXero
06-03-2002, 09:56 AM
well then, uh. hell i dont know what went wrong.
WildWayz
06-29-2002, 04:49 AM
I put my JS1000's strap on (a Get'em Get'em strap - £30!) and was playing when the body strap bit came off. Luckily my reflexes were good and I grabbed it before it hit the ground!
Another time I went for a guitar lesson and the guys room in the guitar shop is small and cluttered. I got my JS1000 outta it's hard case and just as I pulled it out the case lid fell down on it.
CRACK!
My guitar teacher said "OMG your new JS1000 is cracked already!" - but it wasn't - not even a scratch... and the metal case edge hit it :D
James
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