NOOOOOOoooOOOOoooooOOOOOoooooooOOOOO!

[Raskolnikov]

Imagine the scene:
My band and I are practicing, were jammin it out real good. The bass is pumping (really pumping as it turns out), and suddenly- the bass is silent... I'm still playing... CRASH!

I turn around to see my beloved amp head on the floor behind me. The Gemini power conditioner's face is pushed in, and the power amp has pulled outward on it's mounting brackets... my goodness what a fall.

So with the rest of the band looking on in silence, I pick up my rack, plug it back in... and everything works!

Any other stories of equpment that's actually made to last?

[jake sommers]

you made it seem like you fell to the ground, coddled it in your arms and said"WHY!!!TAKE ME INSTEAD LORD..TAKE ME!!!. but i feel you. i would propably would be super worried about my equipment if it fell to the ground. i treat my stuff like my own children.

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[Buzz]

I treat my stuff like step-children.. so it all better damn well last!

[Raskolnikov]

Actually, I treat my instruments like my children. My amp quaifies as a trusted friend.

[jake sommers]

it makes me angry to see a guitarists smash his guitar that sickens me so.

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[Raskolnikov]

Yeah, I agree, John Hiat (and I know I'm spelling the name wrong) said it best in "Perfectly Good Guitar."

[Invasion1]

I cried when i saw Trent reznor throw not one but 3 different les pauls in the air and let them crash onto the floor. That bastard!

[Jon68]

I've got a Fender Black Face 1965 Super Reverb that I bought used in the Spring of 1966. I've carried that amp around in the trunks of various cars (never had a truck) for 34 years. It's only been worked on once, and that was my fault. I changed output tubes without having the amp rebiased, and after a few years, blew some resistors and capacitors. Cost about $100 to get it fixed. The amp is still as quiet as a tomb when not playing, and sings like crazy when its dimed.

[This message has been edited by Jon68 (edited 08-17-2000).]

[MajorA]

Originally posted by jake sommers
i treat my stuff like my own children.

You have kids?? I almost yelled "STOP" at Yngwie when i saw him through around all those Marshalls!!

[PonyOne]

One of my friends was a mobile DJ and had a 60's Vox cabinet and head as part of his setup. He was loading it onto a pleasure boat that he was supposed to DJ a party to, when some drunk Don Juan guy who is trying to impress some ladies bumps into it and knocks the cabinet and head into Boston harbor.
After a lot of yelling, shoving, and phone calls, he got a new cabinet delivered and went on with the show; the company reimbursed him for the Vox. Well, five days later, my friend called another friend who was a liscenced scuba diver (this is a vintage setup worth like six grand); he tied a line to it (it was about thirty feet down) and we all helped lift it up.
We took it home, took a hose and blasted out some of the grime, and then fired it up. Worked fine. He still uses it.

[Azrael]

muahahaah.. thought i´d pull out an oooold thread.

i had that too once or twice.. my guitar.. i placed it on top of a bar-chair for there was nothing else in sight and went away to the toilet. when i returned it lay on the floor and i was like OH MY GAAAAWD!!!?!?!?!?!

suprisingly it didnt even have a scratch. later i discovered that someone just took it and placed it there because he needed the chair *LOL*

and once i had my guitar on my back in one of those gigbags. and suddenly BOTH of the straps tore off and my guit hit the floor real hard and it made this nasty sound.. you know - when you can hear the springs attached to you tremolo. from that moment on it had a deep cut on the bottom where the guitarstrap is fixed. but it still is in tune and all.

i wonder why certain guitars are so fragile - a friend of mine had a gibson guitar and one day he had it leaning on the wall and it fell and the neck was broken. mine fell from like one meter and it was almost unharmed.

[Psycho Amram]

not long ago i leaned my guitar against the wall and went but as i turned my back i heard a scratching sound so i turned back to see my guitar slowly building up speed toward the floor. so i ran and jumped and CRUSH! my guitar fell with a aweful sound just a nano-second before i could catch it and i hit the wall with my shoulder.

[David C]

An old girlfriend took a knife to my guitar strings once, slicing right through the little strings before getting hung up on A and E, which took a small but noticeable chunk out of the neck near the head. The guitar was fine, but I had to get rid of the girlfriend.

[Psycho Amram]

thats not nice thing to do (i mean cutting strings and stuff)

[^Chacron^]

Originally posted by jake sommers
it makes me angry to see a guitarists smash his guitar that sickens me so.

The one which pissed me off was Avril Lavigne on her new video....first of all, this is a 17 year old who can do but a few bar chords with a PRS, and to add insult to injury she smashes it into the windcreen of a car. Bitch :mad:

[noticingthemistake]

Funny thing is we owe this trend to people like hendrix, cobain, and numerous others. The most idolized guitarists of this generation. But then again, look where they (cobain & hendrix) are now! Not trying to be funny, but maybe it's the guitar getting it's revenge. MUHAHAHA!!

[Edited by noticingthemistake on 12-19-2002 at 08:46 AM]

[kingdavid]

I thought I was the only one with beef with anyone smashing anything that looks like a guitar.
There was this time we were watching TV in the common room in my hall of residence in college(colleges here don't provide tvs for students in the room,you watch the common one or bring your own)and there's this brian mcknight video.
He's got this awesome looking acoustic I'm drooling over.Then somewhere in the song the SOAB raises it up and
David:WHAT THE F***************CK!!!!!
[b]The other studednts:What?!?
he brings it crushing to the ground.
That hurt.Other dudes wouldn't see what my problem was,but it literally upset me.
But it ended well;it's those stories that work out in the end,so near the end of the song,you see the destruction being undone and the guitar is put back together.
Much better.
Thank you,Mr. video director.

[Dr_simon]

Ok Im a bit afraid to post this.... but it was nearly 20 years ago, oh no confession time !

When I was in high school, me and some friends got a band together, there were several differences in opinion and I went on to peruse a solo career.

Anyway the other guitar dude gets him a Marshall JCM800... yummy big bad valve head and 4 12 cab, on casters. Anyway me and some friends turn up during a practice after several bevies and offer to help set up there kit (I want a closer look at the JCM). I am rolling this thing across a polished floor at , well more or less top speed when me and the cab stops and the head doesn’t ! EEeeeeek ! Bounce ! Rapid retrieval of the head ! As it happened the head was fine and my mister meaner went unnoticed....phewwww !!!
Needless to say much more caution was shown when next I handled expensive musical equipment !


[Edited by Dr_simon on 12-20-2002 at 04:01 PM]

[Incidents Happen]

i know it sounds weird, but i think i would treat my children worse than my guitar equipment (i dont have children, so i just have to guess). :D

edit- that came out weird the first time i said it!:D

[Edited by Incidents Happen on 12-24-2002 at 02:01 PM]

[jesse sutton]

okay i have two horrible stories.

1) i am in a music store with a friend, and i decide to take a telecaster down from the wall hook. well as some may know, the headstock is thinner then the normal telecaster size, and when i tried to put it back in the hooks, it stayed for about a second or two, before crashing down about two metres. i had turned around, before it fell, and all i heard was this massive crash, but with some sort of musicality behind it. i turn around once more to discover, the tele, lying on the ground next to wooden piano. a little kid had been playing the piano, and was almost smashed in the head by the tail end of the guitar. i rush over there, and pick up the guitar as careful as possible, hoping that i didnt ruin it. the employees rush over, to discover the guitar is in perfect condition, but the piano has a humongous chunk missing in the edge. they were all worried about there damaged piano, but i was still upset about the tele. since i knew the guys well, the said that they wouldnt make me pay for the damages, which were around $600. i got off the hook that time, but i get some odd looks when i return to the store.

2) i got my younger child, (a yamaha acoustic,) in the backback thingy, and i am walking to school. i have to cross over a set of tracks, that run up a hill, and on the other side, there are some big stone blocks that are about four feet high, that just keep the little hill from eroding. well i had to jump off the lowest stone to get to the path, but as i jump, i realize i didnt jump out far enough, and i smash the bottom of my acoustic, at full force against the stone. it took a chunk out of the bottom that was about the size of a tennis ball. i almost died right there. luckily the wood didnt shatter and i was able to glue the piece back in place. i couldnt get it professionally done, because i was broke, and although it doesnt look perfect, it still worked out in the end.

Those are my stories. I wont be offended if you all hate me now, because of this lack of care for such a wonderful instrument. Although i am EXTREMELY careful now.

[Psycho Amram]

you all should watch furi-kuri

[canuck7]

i remember a time recently where a friend was playing my (beautiful) black Ibanez RG421 and was bending down to plug in a stompbox and as he straightened up he smacked the headstock into the bottom rail of my bed with full quickly-standing-up force (very fast). i winced at the sickening smack sound. my pulse went through the roof and i had to literally sit down (i kind of collapsed against the wall really). my friend quickly asessed the damage and found out that the tuning pegs had taken the full brunt of the violence. but they weren't even dented let alone knocked off. and they were hit pretty f***ing hard!!!!

another time i was just getting a ride back from playing with the same friend at his house and i just placed my Marshall MG15CD practise amp in the back of the Suburban. as well drove quite quickly, my (glorious) Marshall was mercilessly battered for 10 full minutes and got smacked with the front door and knocked on a corner on the way inside. but nothing was damaged and i relaxed when i realized my awesome little practise amp wasn't even marked or dented through the grueling 10 minute ordeal.

needless to say, i am still and will always be EXTREMELY careful with my own stuff. you should see me in guitar stores, my veins stick out until i look like a walking road map i take almost a full minute to put guitars back on racks and just as long to take them off. i'm managing quite well though, no guitar store accidents to date.