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Post by rickyguitar on Mar 1, 2020 19:04:25 GMT -5
So you ever have any OMG I cant believe that happened accidents at gigs? The one that really comes to my mind is when the bass players nose collided with the head stock of my LP. Broke his nose, guitar did not even go out of tune. I didn't see it happen as I was looking off to the left as he came in from the right. Apparently one of us zigged when he should have zagged. Last so of the set. I found out when I went over to see why he was kneeling in from of his amp at break time. It was night 1 or 2 of a couple weeks on the road.
How about you?
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Post by LM on Mar 1, 2020 20:33:32 GMT -5
Before a gig a couple of decades ago, I had the urge to bring my Heritage 535 but I had a weird feeling in my gut about it and 'felt' to bring a different one. I ignored my gut and brought the Heritage anyway. During practice, I tripped over my guitar cord thereby yanking the guitar from its stand and it hit the ground with a crash. When I picked it up, I'd broken a tuning peg.
Since I lived only a few miles from the gig, I ran home and picked up the guitar I should've brought in the first place.
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Post by Davywhizz on Mar 3, 2020 13:34:33 GMT -5
I had a drummer who fell backwards off his stool during a particularly enthusiastic fill, hit his head on the emergency bar of a fire door in the back wall and landed in the car park. Naturally, the band played on
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Mar 3, 2020 16:31:04 GMT -5
"Naturally, the band played on."
THAT is rock and roll, right there!
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Post by TBird on Mar 4, 2020 7:16:22 GMT -5
I was at a little club where a country band was playing. Chatted up the guitar player during a break and he invited me to come up and do a song using his guitar. When my turn came, he handed me his axe and I strapped it on. It was plugged into a small amp perched on a chair behind me. For some reason, I walked about 15 ft with a 10 ft cord and the amp came crashing down off the chair, setting off the spring reverb like the beginning of Wipe Out. Picked up the amp, sheepishly apologized to the guitar player and did one song. The didn't ask me to come back!
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Mar 7, 2020 12:06:47 GMT -5
Ouch!
That reminded me of an incident at an outdoor jam years back where one of the guitarists had a Fender Pro Junior perched on the pavilion bar five feet above a concrete slab. Like you, he tried to walk farther than the cable was long, and the amp did a swan dive. It sounded baaaaad. THUD.
But he picked it up and the only damage was scuffed/dented tweed fabric on the top edge. This is a small tube amp--and it was a *rugged* little beast! Everyone was shaking their head in disbelief. I think he helped sell a few Pro Juniors that day.
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Post by roly on Mar 9, 2020 3:15:05 GMT -5
Long ago, the drummer knocked over a cymbal stand.
The cymbal landed on it's edge and cut right through a monitor speaker cable.
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Post by HenryJ on Mar 9, 2020 7:16:01 GMT -5
Long ago, the drummer knocked over a cymbal stand. The cymbal landed on it's edge and cut right through a monitor speaker cable. At least it didn't cut right through a power cord! |
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Post by Laker on Mar 9, 2020 11:04:35 GMT -5
While playing Milwaukee's Summerfest a few years ago, a friend tossed his Kramer guitar up about 15 feet in the air at the end of the last song of his band's show. The lighting people were supposed to kill the lights but that didn't happen so he was momentarily blinded. He lost the guitar in the lights and it ended up crashing on the stage breaking the neck. The crowd went wild, they thought it was part of the show.
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Post by jazzguy on Mar 9, 2020 11:32:29 GMT -5
Long ago, the drummer knocked over a cymbal stand. The cymbal landed on it's edge and cut right through a monitor speaker cable. At least it didn't cut right through a power cord! Once a drummer dropped his retainer nut from his high hat stand. I reached to pick it up off the floor and he knocked the stand over and the cymbals edge came down right on the back of my fretting hand. No cut but it swelled up pretty big. This was 5 minutes before a gig. All I could do was submerge it in ice for a few minutes and soldier on. Not a fun night. |
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Post by LM on Mar 9, 2020 16:37:52 GMT -5
At least none of us have backed over our Marshall head in the driveway.
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Post by Leftee on Mar 9, 2020 17:30:45 GMT -5
Our drummer spontaneously combusted.
No really!!!!!
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Post by rickyguitar on Mar 9, 2020 17:32:16 GMT -5
Damn. You win.
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Post by Leftee on Mar 9, 2020 18:24:49 GMT -5
It was our lone foray into a light show.
And BBQ.
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Post by jazzguy on Mar 10, 2020 11:24:10 GMT -5
Our drummer spontaneously combusted. No really!!!!! Does a '66 Vibrolux Reverb count? |
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Post by Leftee on Mar 10, 2020 14:27:34 GMT -5
Our drummer spontaneously combusted. No really!!!!! Does a '66 Vibrolux Reverb count? Only if you ate it afterwards. |
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Post by Doug In Idaho on Mar 12, 2020 13:50:24 GMT -5
A few years back I was playing a solo outdoor show at a local "seasonal bar". This woman walks in, by herself takes a seat in front of the stage and requests a song. I had just played the song she wanted to hear so I told her (and everyone else) if you wait until the end of the set I will play it just for you. As I start the next song she throws a fairly large orange cat at me! Lots of orange... lots of claws and lots of teeth. Mr Cat was just not having it. I don't know where she got the cat, he must have just wandered by. I took an early break and tried to reassure Mr Cat that I was not his enemy, the woman left without her request and without her cat. The cat hung around the rest of the night playing with my cords and rubbing against my leg, I got him a snack form the kitchen before I packed up for the night. I never saw her or the cat again even though I play that venue often.
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Post by rickyguitar on Mar 12, 2020 17:56:07 GMT -5
Wow, cat throwing. Dang.
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Post by jdawg on Mar 13, 2020 10:37:57 GMT -5
Nothing crazy. But this past weekend we had a 50th birthday party on Friday night and a Father Daughter dance on Saturday. We use a Presonus digital rack mixer that can only be run through either a PC/laptop or our wireless tablets. The router would not power up and we didn't have a backup at the gig. So I had to run to Wal-Mart and buy a new router. During the drive, my wife mentioned that it might be the power supply for the router, which is also something that had occurred to me.So I bought a power supply as well as a router. I was going through my mind preparing all the steps and trying to remember how I had the current router set up. But it was the power supply and I didn't have to configure the new router. We have had our Baritone Sax player fall backwards off the stage. The only thing that got hurt was his pride. Also one of our tenor sax players knocked over a lighting stand on another gig. So we have been lucky I guess.
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Post by Leftee on Mar 13, 2020 16:36:49 GMT -5
A few years back I was playing a solo outdoor show at a local "seasonal bar". This woman walks in, by herself takes a seat in front of the stage and requests a song. I had just played the song she wanted to hear so I told her (and everyone else) if you wait until the end of the set I will play it just for you. As I start the next song she throws a fairly large orange cat at me! Lots of orange... lots of claws and lots of teeth. Mr Cat was just not having it. I don't know where she got the cat, he must have just wandered by. I took an early break and tried to reassure Mr Cat that I was not his enemy, the woman left without her request and without her cat. The cat hung around the rest of the night playing with my cords and rubbing against my leg, I got him a snack form the kitchen before I packed up for the night. I never saw her or the cat again even though I play that venue often. Thread winner! Well... technically she didn’t accidentally throw the cat at you. |
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Post by ninworks on Mar 17, 2020 6:51:25 GMT -5
We were playing in a little dive bar with a small elevated stage. The ceiling was very low and we had a truss with 4 - 1000 watt par cans on it. The drummer's carpet covered monitor was sitting on his bass drum case so it would be high enough to hear it well. The light truss was hanging from the low ceiling and the lights were about a foot above his monitor. I looked over at him at one point and the carpet on his monitor was starting to smoke from the heat of the lights. I stopped playing then went over and unplugged the light that was causing his monitor to almost combust. The heat had melted the carpet on the monitor.
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Post by Davywhizz on Apr 20, 2020 10:06:53 GMT -5
Didn't happen to me, but I knew a famously irresponsible heavy band in the 70s who bought some flares (not the trouser variety) from a guy in a van, which they saw as a cheap way into pyrotechnics. On the first outing they had one set up at each side of the stage and a roadie to trigger them at the climax of their set. Unfortunately, the alleged "indoor fireworks" proved to be nautical distress flares. One failed to go off, but the stand holding the other fell over just as the flare took flight. It flew the length of the room, smashed a window between two tables of quite elderly drinkers and disappeared into the night. The club management cancelled all future heavy bands. A few years later, the same band bought a white van without asking too many questions. At their next gig they picked up the drummer from his house and had a brief conversation with him from his upstairs bedroom window. That's when he noticed the Police markings on the top of the van.
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Post by bassngtr on Apr 20, 2020 11:53:56 GMT -5
![]( "Right click to shift") My band was playing a nice gig we did 3-4 years in a row. July night, along the river, on a concrete pavilion. Very nice setting. Usually a sweet breeze off the water...except this night.
We always struggled with Tom Petty's 'American Girl' .
This one VERY hot night, which followed a very hot day, about 30 seconds in I noticed the beat starting to lag. I walked over in front of our drummer, my back to him, and very animatedly moved my bass neck up and down with the correct beat, hoping he would get back on it. Instead the beat continued to slow down, so I turned around and continued my motions, getting quite annoyed...
Then...I realized he was in the process of passing out from heat exhaustion. After a long pause while the ambulance came, a HS kid came out of the crowd to play drums for us.
I still feel awful about getting annoyed with our drummer. He was a good drummer and a GREAT guy.
Later that summer, we did a pro bono gig at the HS kid's graduation party at his house as a thank-you for him bailing us out that night on the river.
Lots of fun until...I saw money changing hands with the guitarist, money that I never saw again. We got paid for a pro bono gig and the snake guitarist did not share it with the band.
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