Stupid guitar mistakes

[Chrisb]

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While opening for Twisted Sister and getting boo'd like crazy as usual, my 1968 Gibson SG slipped off of my strap and fell face first on to the stage splitting the headstock in 2 while the crowd roared with laughter and then continued boo'ing.

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Jesus, I think I've actually HAD that nightmare. My condolences on that one man.

While vaccuming the floor near my practicing area I failed to notice that my guitar on the single stand near the amp was still plugged in and that the cord had snuck under the rug. As I vaccumed over it the thing sucked up the cord, pulled the guitar out of the stand and completely ripped the entire jackplate right off. I still haven't fixed that guitar, though I am working on it now. The bitch of it is when the plate ripped out it took small chunks of wood from the screwholes so they no longer fit. I am probably gonna have to put some wood glue in there once I reconnect the whole thing. Luckily the guitar itself sustained no damage other than a small finish crack (not even a ding to the wood). But lesson learned, the rug has moved forward, and the stand closer to the wall and I haven't "forgotten" to disconnect the guitar and the amp since.

[j2379]

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never leave a guitar leaning against a couch, always unplug it before putting it on a stand. because someone will trip over the cord & the guitar will fall. lost 2 headstocks that way.

[npacheco]

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I'm trying to learn how to play, that's pretty stupid [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

I saw someone try to do the Cinderella throw (spinning the guitar around) without strap-locks...they didn't quite make it. That Aria Pro II Knight Warrior had some battle scars after that [img]/images/graemlins/headbang.gif[/img]

[quiksilver]

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Another guitarist in my former band had a beautiful Hamer KK Downing model V, and after seeing Cinderella in concert, he began performing a trick where, when ready to switch guitars, he would spin the V around his body, then let it go flying across the stage (an actual "flying V") to our roadie, who would catch it, tune it, etc. One time, he tried to do that while standing on the drum riser, but didn't realize he was standing on his cord. Halfway across the stage, the cord went taut, and the V dropped like a rock, breaking the lower wing completely off!

[Emthrax]

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"The first is - walking through a door with the Rhoads strapped on. Only did that once. The second is - turning around in a tight rehearsal area - with the Rhoads strapped on."



THIS one had me roarin'!! [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] Dude, Sunbane... that is WICKED funny!! HAHAHAHA! I would've paid to see the look of bewilderment and then dawning realization on your face. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

And WHY on earth would you let a drummer play your guitar? Was this drummer Bam Bam? [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] Sorry.. I couldn't resist. [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

And Chris, I would be interested in knowing which vaccuum you use that has such wonderful suck capabilities. My vaccuum cleaner does not suck nearly as well as yours.

-Em

[Drsracing]

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Bending over to grab a beer, not holding my Charvel tightly, and watching in amazement as the headstock hit the tile floor and little pieces went everywhere...still plays like a dream..only cosmetic (thank goodness).

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Thats why I kept in a corner Jeri

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Oh...that's what I did wrong. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] You forgot to send instructions

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Damn, I knew always forgotsomethin [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[neilli]

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Threw a retopped LP at a wall cos it wouldn't stay in tune.

Stripped my model2 because of Nuno (d'oh!)

Lent my model2 to a mate who let his dog chew it

Left a Yamaha APX on a pub windowsill only to watch in slow motion as it fell off! (the back virtually split off)

Various modifications to my first no-name guitar (Levinson blade neck, Kahler Flyer, EMG select, then DiMarzios, respray etc) which probably cost as much over the 18 months or so as the JEM I so wanted it to be!

[SixStringSuicide]

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NEVER ATTEMPT TO TUNE 11-70'S TO E....haha a little lesson from my first days of guitar. It was on a epi LPC cuz I wanted to play like Zakk Wylde and my bassist buddy was slapping it, and the nut just clean flew off. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

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I'm trying to understand the physics of this. how can the nut fly off if there is even one string to hold it down? did the strings break? I'm lost.... [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

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He was slapping it and the strings didnt break but first the 70 guages cracked the nut, thus leaving the next highest gage a bit unsupported by the broken nut and that groove quickly broke out. think about strings that thick tuned so tight on a shitty as epiphone nut. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[diablomozart]

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never try to play "machine gun" on stage with your charvel star without straplocks...i had one...did the whole raise it in the air thing...strap comes off...i spend the entire second song of the set sitting on the edge of the stage trying to get the damned thing back on while still playing the song...d'oh!!!!...lol...d.m.

[neilli]

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....never try and play anything, on anything, without straplocks [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[Inearthed]

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Well, never really made any stupid guitar mistakes... How about a stupid gig mistake instead? I took some ibuprofin before we played a gig. I was really light headed, dizzy and I couldn't stand straight by the 4th song. A friend of mine said that it was because of all the moving around it circulated the ibuprofin too fast throughout my body. Some folks at the gig thought I was really drunk, heh.

[Jack The Riffer]

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Taking my DK2 out of the box when I first got it, as I lifted it, I lifted the headstock right into the ceiling fan. Doh!!!! No damage thank God.

[Chrisb]

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always unplug it before putting it on a stand.

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As you can see from my story, +1 million

Em, Pretty sure the vac was a Hoover of some sort (I stand by my ex girlfriend's choices in those matters). It wasn't that it sucked up the cord so much that it pulled the guitar out, but rather that it sucked the cord up and I kinda hit panic mode and pulled back instinctively..without shutting off the power. Not a smart move that. The smart move would have been to calmly turn off the vac and back away. Live, you learn. And its really not that bad, I'm just to cheap to take it to a tech for repair and to lazy to fix it myself. Which is why I'm forcing my younger brother to do it, he's a computer engineer so he's good with all that wiring stuff [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[Newc]

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NEVER say to yourself "Y'know, KK Downing's Hamer Mini-V with the pyramids down the bevels looked killer - I wonder how a Warrior would look covered in those things" [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

It'll take about 8 hours to get the buggers mounted....unless you clip the tangs in half (shorter tang = less distance to travel = shorter completion time....theoretically [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img])

[LexLuthier]

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Years ago I was at a soundcheck for a friend's band. This guy who was a friend of one of the guys in the band came in with a guitar he had just bought. He was trying to be a show-off so he tried to do some guitar twirls around his body (without straplocks). The first time he tried it, it stayed on. The second time he tried it the guitar took off, came unstrapped, went about 20 feet in the air, and crashed head first onto the floor and destroyed the neck.