When Instruments Go Bad 3

dabhoys

Just wondering what peoples horry stories of what instruments and musical items go ape wall during a gig.

Be interesting to hear some peoples fun and loving trips down disaster lane...

Heathen

well dunno if this counts...
just before Xmas we were playing in a boozer in Waterford...
there was a few bands on before us so we put all are gear in the bottom part of a fire exit, we werent blocking the stairs or anything, and were told by management it was ok. so we went off and had a few beers and a bit of grub, then we came back a few hours later to setup and discovered all our gear was moved for where we left it, that had moved it outside the back of the building, in sub zero temperatures!!!
naturaly we were p1ssed off, so we brought it all in and left it sit around for a while to try warm it up a bit, my drums were ****ed up tuning was a b1tch and the shells were covered in condensation.... but that wasent the worst.. our bassests guitar was gone... it never showed up we only goy it back 2 weeks later in a studio near ours.. it was mixed up with gear belonging to a band playing the other stage...
so he got a spare bass of a friend and we played, after the first song the bass amp blew up... condensation. so we were without a bass amp, but we got a spare one and played on, gig went well but we were all just fed up by the time we got into it, and then to top off the nite the bassest guitar stand got robbed to. so he went home with no guitar, no stand and a blown amp.... we were saying to him "man.. you must have been hitler in a former life haha"

anyway thats my story

1 week later the singer quit
so were training a new one in now

later
Macker

Paladin

Well it started off rather innocuously with our rythym guitarist breaking a string. We passed his guitar to a friend to restring while we played another song. We got the guitar back untuned and the rythym guitarist went to tune it. This was a mistake. He cant tune to save his life. The bassist eventually got impatient and grabbed to guitar off him and gave it to me to tune. The f-ing guitar had every string tuned up 4 frets!! Can you believe that? Floating bridge which means tuning was a bollox. Just got it tuned and I was putting the jack lead of my guitar into my amp, and the screw on the front of the amp that holds the internal "female" jack connecter came off and the internal jack fell into the amp.

Now this wasnt a problem that destroyed my amp, but how could I use it for the rest of the night? It would take a fair while tracking down a screwdriver to open the amp and get the jack back out? Basically bit the bullet and decided was gonna rob the rythym guitarists amp (which sucked). All our 2 guitar songs with 1 guitar sounded like ****. Needless to say our employers were none too impressed at this big long technical break. There were musical disasters during the night too but lets not go into that...

M@lice

My amp fell off stage once. It was standin up of a hardcase of some description when some1 bumped into in and it came crashing down off the stage. The amazing thing was it kept goin. The sound engineer then came runnin over and put it back and we kept playin as if it never happened.

Quite an amazing feat for a behringer amp I must say, especially considerin that when i got it in the post the power supply was rattling around inside because a screw had snapped in transit (which i had repared thank gaud) & 1 of the feet had cracked.

It was the 120watt ultra bass if any1's interested.