noisenet
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Re: Post your funny experiances when you first started playing guitar!
I can recall a few beauteous tales from the early days....
One of my first gigs was a High School talent show. We got to play, I dunno, 5 songs I think. I was playing a Carvin V220 (remember those? "The Ultimate Weapon", LOL) with a Kahler tremolo. About a minute into the first song, I broke a string (don't remember which one). Well, I hadn't clipped the excess strings at the tuning keys. So after the song, I go to change the string. The excess at the keys was all tangled and I didn't have any cutters. So I'm there, on stage in front of a packed auditorium, and the singer's bellowing into the mic to hurry up, just play without the string, no lead, etc.... The thing was with a Kahler or Floyd, breaking a string screws up the tuning horribly. So I had to play the rest of the songs holding the whammy bar down to approximate the correct tuning. Needless to say, it was a bit embarassing.
Second moment - my first amp was a Laney AOR 30 with a Laney 4x12 cab. The guy at the music store told me it sounded just like a Marshall and was cheaper. So I get it, then tell my buddies about it and that it sounds just like a Marshall. Well, I set up to jam with some guys, who happen to have real Marshalls. I start playing and the guys are like "man, that doesn't sound anything like a Marshall, WTF?" I felt like a total goon.
The night before my very first gig ever, which was this huge field party called "Rocktoberfest" (original name, huh?), we were having band practice, somewhere a wire had come loose (amp or guitar, I don't remember) so it had to be soldered. The soldering iron was sitting on a ceramic tray on my 4x12 warming up, we were BS'ing, and without thinking, I leaned back against the cab and put my left hand right smack on the iron, right on the pinky finger. Anyone who's been boneheaded to touch a soldering iron can attest, it hurts bad. Had to play my first gig ever with a badly burned pinky on my fretting hand. I have small hands so my pinky gets used a lot more than normal, even with power chords. Imagine playing the solo to "Over The Mountain" with a blistered, crusty pinky. Not fun......
I can recall a few beauteous tales from the early days....
One of my first gigs was a High School talent show. We got to play, I dunno, 5 songs I think. I was playing a Carvin V220 (remember those? "The Ultimate Weapon", LOL) with a Kahler tremolo. About a minute into the first song, I broke a string (don't remember which one). Well, I hadn't clipped the excess strings at the tuning keys. So after the song, I go to change the string. The excess at the keys was all tangled and I didn't have any cutters. So I'm there, on stage in front of a packed auditorium, and the singer's bellowing into the mic to hurry up, just play without the string, no lead, etc.... The thing was with a Kahler or Floyd, breaking a string screws up the tuning horribly. So I had to play the rest of the songs holding the whammy bar down to approximate the correct tuning. Needless to say, it was a bit embarassing.
Second moment - my first amp was a Laney AOR 30 with a Laney 4x12 cab. The guy at the music store told me it sounded just like a Marshall and was cheaper. So I get it, then tell my buddies about it and that it sounds just like a Marshall. Well, I set up to jam with some guys, who happen to have real Marshalls. I start playing and the guys are like "man, that doesn't sound anything like a Marshall, WTF?" I felt like a total goon.
The night before my very first gig ever, which was this huge field party called "Rocktoberfest" (original name, huh?), we were having band practice, somewhere a wire had come loose (amp or guitar, I don't remember) so it had to be soldered. The soldering iron was sitting on a ceramic tray on my 4x12 warming up, we were BS'ing, and without thinking, I leaned back against the cab and put my left hand right smack on the iron, right on the pinky finger. Anyone who's been boneheaded to touch a soldering iron can attest, it hurts bad. Had to play my first gig ever with a badly burned pinky on my fretting hand. I have small hands so my pinky gets used a lot more than normal, even with power chords. Imagine playing the solo to "Over The Mountain" with a blistered, crusty pinky. Not fun......
