So my Labor Day gig was noon to 4 right on the beach in the sun.
Gonna be hot hot hot ...... no biggie ...... I'm mostly indifferent to temp extremes.
Besides ..... I own a fan.
But I'm not wanting to use my Stinnett because I don't want to be pouring sweat all over that nitro finish plus near the beach everything gets coated with sand and/or salt.
Which guitar will I take? I pretty much use the Stinnett all the time for everything so I don't even know which guitars have decent strings on them.
Eventually I decide I'll take my black strat ..... meh, it's a strat .... who gives a shit?
Gotta get up early but I take the time to go through the case and make sure I have picks
check, and a slide
check.
Get to the gig plenty early 'cause it's the longest load-in I've ever done except for a few Disney or Universal resort things.
I'm talking freakin' forever and 2 loads worth too!
So finally I'm about all set-up .... PA's pumpin' out some music ..... keyboard's going ..... sax is on the stand .... time to get the guitar ..... get the picks and slide and put them where they go ..... grab the strat and ....... no strap? Did I actually, fucking look in my fucking case this fucking morning and not notice I didn't have a strap?!!?!!
"Ah .... dammit!"
OK, ..... mind's in overdrive 'cause it's time to go ...... van's in Valet and way too far away to go look for a strap and I'm pretty sure there isn't one in it anyway.
Maybe I can just hold it in my lap ..... ummmm, nope.
Besides, when I pick up the sax the guitar needs to hang so ......
Well, I can tie this green 6' zip-cord extension cord around the strap buttons.
Actually not as easy as it sounds .... there really isn't quite enough room under a strap button to tie an extension cord securely but I put the git on a table and bore down on that thing and it mostly stayed on.
Then the cord really cut into my shoulder so I took a beer koozee and shoved it under the cord right where it cut the worst.
It kept falling out, of course, and anytime I played sax i'd have to put it back.
I really wish I had a picture .... a green extension cord for a strap with the plug dangling from one button, the socket dangling from the other .... and a beer koozee stuck up on my shoulder!
Hahahahaha ......