Dumbass Equipment Goofs

[Hardrock69]

Laying in bed one day in 1979. Had my 1975 Gibson Flying V leaning up against the foot of my bed facing away from the bad.

Moved my foot the wrong way. Guitar was gently knocked over, and fell face first onto the concrete floor of my basement bedroom in my parents house.

Headstock snapped off.

EPIC FAIL.


The following year (1980) I moved to L.A. for the first time.

After I had glued the headstock back on myself, I had it shipped to me in L.A.

When it arrived, the headstock had broken off.

I complained.

UPS paid for a luthier to fix it properly, with a couple of pins.

So I at least got it fixed for free.

[jhale667]

Not MY goof, but...

My former singer from a coupla bands ago knocked my Sunburst Strat off the stand at rehearsal one night a few years back - hit the ground headstock first. EPIC FAIL on his part. Happened while we were in mid-song, so my desperate last-second attempt to save it came up short.
I thought for sure the neck would've snapped (it hit pretty hard) right off, but it didn't; instead some of the wood around the bottom mounting holes in the pocket got stripped out - I could literally twist the neck and make it go out of tune, and not in the cool Jake E. Lee sense of the term, either
Had to take the neck off and dowel those two holes...she's solid as a rock again now...only the tiny telltale divot in the headstock remains.

Singer was petrified because he A) knew he hadn't been paying attention and fucked up and B ) could totally see how pissed I was - he was like "Dude, don't KILL me!"

[GAR]

The first "real" guitar I ever bought was a '71 Les Paul goldtop Deluxe (previously I had an Ibanez RG570 and a Washburn WP-80). I promptly took out the bridge pickup, carved out the hole and placed an EMG 81 in it. Sounded damn good, but ruined the value of the guitar.

Then there was that time the opening band in Austin TX blew the output transformer on my JCM by firing it up without plugging it into a cab. Fuck those fucking guys in the face with a giant horse cock till they fucking die, and then bury them in a giant T shaped coffin with the dick still crammed down their throats.

XLNT!

Now that's the kinda passion I'm looking for in this thread..

Come ON people, pick up the pace! Jackassrock's provided an extention of blame here, to those who have fucked up your gear for you!

And at that note JA: fuck those fucking horsecock-faces with a giant fucking horsecock.. fucking assholes!

[GAR]

Ok remember that dump The Green Door in Montclair? Or Clarimont.. whatever..

This scummy dump that I think was a strip club closed down for years, reopened as a place bands with no following could play, back in the '80s.

And remember those slick DiMarzio straps Yngwie endorsed, with the click-to-close clip and nylon webbing so slick you could throw it over your shoulder like a Continental Soldier like he does?

I know I shared this before: the guitar went over my shoulder - the headstock came around, and then into the 10 inch stage platform, skipped down off it across the floor and into a tablestand 12 feet away.

What happened was, the bottom screw holding the endpin pulled out after it whipped over my shoulder with the full weight of the guitar on that tiny screw.

Since it was a steel Floyd nut with Schaller keys, the only damage was the high E key holding screw sheared while the unit rotated which was easily fixed though gouged by the tiles.

Most embarrassing.

[Diamondjimi]

Ok remember that dump The Green Door in Montclair? Or Clarimont.. whatever..

This scummy dump that I think was a strip club closed down for years, reopened as a place bands with no following could play, back in the '80s.

And remember those slick DiMarzio straps Yngwie endorsed, with the click-to-close clip and nylon webbing so slick you could throw it over your shoulder like a Continental Soldier like he does?

I know I shared this before: the guitar went over my shoulder - the headstock came around, and then into the 10 inch stage platform, skipped down off it across the floor and into a tablestand 12 feet away.

What happened was, the bottom screw holding the endpin pulled out after it whipped over my shoulder with the full weight of the guitar on that tiny screw.

Since it was a steel Floyd nut with Schaller keys, the only damage was the high E key holding screw sheared while the unit rotated which was easily fixed though gouged by the tiles.

Most embarrassing.

[Panamark]

everyone that owns a marshall head must have done this at some
point.... Put a can of beer down on the top of the head (not on the vent)
then forgotten, starting getting into the jam, swung the guitar
neck around, and goodbye beer into main cooling vent...
Amazingy when I did it, I dried the tubes and sockets with a hair dryer,
replaced the main fuse, and away we went again ! lol

[Hardrock69]

I have never done that, as I did not want to risk that happening lol.

[Sucker of Satan's Penis]

As it was He who invented me who tempted you, I was disappointed that you did not succomb to the idea.

[GAR]

Amp builders are a dime a dozen.

The most reasonable in LA would be Jerry "Ampcrazy" Blaha. I like his work.

The most unreasonable in LA would be Mike "Metalhead Mods" Moran. I do not like his work.

[Hardrock69]

So? You think they give a fuck what you like?

You obviously have delusions of grandeur, as if any of us give a flying fuck about your lame little "opinions".