Fuck!!

[Adam P]

I fully endorse the DiMarzio Click-Lok straps. I like them a lot more than the Schallers I used to use on all my guitars, and they're less expensive and include a strap. Mine have never come close to slipping, and I used to play for a couple years in a band where I waved my bass all around. It didn't even budge.

Beware of cheap imitations though. A friend of mine had some imitation Click-Lok with a cheap leather fastener instead of the sturdy nylon and metal fastener on his Epi Les Paul (fortunately it was one of those ultra-cheap low line models), and another friend of ours thought he would try swinging it around his body, you know the move. As soon as the guitar went up over his shoulder the leather around the screw gave way and the guitar flew across the room and into the wall in the corner. It was miraculously undamaged, but it gave us all a real good scare.

 

[up-fiddler]

They sukt

I was watching some kids do a live show when the same exact thing happened. The band was terrible and I just figured the guitar was trying to escape.

PS I stayed to watch the whole show to give my support. Any band is better than a DJ.

 

[chizzy]

that happened to me onstage. I hired my idiot friend to guitar tech (who's the idiot?) and hands me my les paul back as I give him an SG that was tuned FCDGCD. First, he says "I couldn't get it to register on the tuner!" The dipshit never turned the volume up. I was so pissed that I didn't notice the strap was twisted, so as I put it on, it promptly fell off. Then as I get that sorted out, I realize he was turning all the tuning pegs trying to get sound out of it. Completely out of tune, not even close. The best part? It was in front of about 10,000 people at an "edgefest" concert in a baseball stadium. We went on after Weezer, and the Goo Goo Dolls headlined. Some kid threw his full water bottle at me and hit me in the face. Sweet.

 

[Purge]

It was in front of about 10,000 people at an "edgefest" concert in a baseball stadium. We went on after Weezer, and the Goo Goo Dolls headlined.

What band were (are?) you in?

 

[ggunn]

In a related story...

Don't EVER just lean your guitar back against a chair, especially over a hard floor. My first real guitar, a nice old Gibson B-25, was leaning against the sofa I was sitting on when I shifted my weight a little and it crashed over on its face. It broke the headstock off just above the nut. I cried.

 

[chizzy]

What band were (are?) you in?

we were called "saturn battery"...

it was a while ago. We won a contest for local bands to be on the bill.

memories...

 

[gbondo9]

another story....

Ive got one up on all of you..

A few years ago I was in a band that played every weekend at a little bar called Deucy Lucy's. We used to get up there and just rock out with old Zeppelin tunes and shit. I bought a brand new tobacco sunburst Les Paul Custom right before one of our shows. I hadn't even owned it for 24 hours. Anyway, about half way through the 2nd set, we were playing Dazed and Confused and as I was pulling out my bow for the guitar solo, my strap came off and it gave me herpes, bronchitis and a hemorrhoid. I also got the hiccups. I was so mad that I threw my juice box at the singer and called him scott stapp. We quickly disbanded and I still get cold sores on my johnson. I burned the guitar later for warmth.

 

[Purge]

Ive got one up on all of you..

A few years ago I was in a band that played every weekend at a little bar called Deucy Lucy's. We used to get up there and just rock out with old Zeppelin tunes and shit. I bought a brand new tobacco sunburst Les Paul Custom right before one of our shows. I hadn't even owned it for 24 hours. Anyway, about half way through the 2nd set, we were playing Dazed and Confused and as I was pulling out my bow for the guitar solo, my strap came off and it gave me herpes, bronchitis and a hemorrhoid. I also got the hiccups. I was so mad that I threw my juice box at the singer and called him scott stapp. We quickly disbanded and I still get cold sores on my johnson. I burned the guitar later for warmth.

This HAS to be bullshit. There was no way that you were playing Zeppelin covers.

 

[gbondo9]

This HAS to be bullshit. There was no way that you were playing Zeppelin covers.

Dammit man!!!
You and Snopes are going to wake up with a decapitated horse head one of these days.....

So we were a Spandau Ballet cover band. Fuck off.

 

[jpw23]

I was doing one of those idiotic over the shoulder things at a club one night and launched my strat into the middle of the dance floor! Got a standing ovation for being the biggest dumbass in the room!!!!!

 

[dgatwood]

"Straplocks"!!!

Anybody tried these?

 

[mud]

Never dropped my guitars but have accidently put the end of it in my singers mouth. He bent down to get his drink i turned around after tuning up and was on my knee's, up came the guitar and head goes in his chops and chips his front tooth....oh well lolz, had to happen to someone aye!!

 

[travelin travis]

Never dropped my guitars but have accidently put the end of it in my singers mouth.

gettin kinky at band practice?

 

[chizzy]

negative rep?

I guess a lot of people throw bullshit around these boards. Someone gave me neg rep for my earlier post. (I'm not entirely sure what that is...) Not a big deal, I guess. I just don't like being called a liar. Anyway here's a pic from that day.

 

[PK55]

30th anniversay Les Paul...my buddies...I go to the neck for some hammer-ons...and the Les Paul dropped onto my big toe (right foot) like a sack of bricks...I literally caught it on the bounce on the way back up...my toe was killing me...throbbing...all night long my pulse was doing the salsa in my big toe...bum-bum....bum-bum...The next day I go to the family Dr. and he excuses himself, then comes back with a large jar full of something flammable and a "mini-icepick"....YEAH...he heated that bad boy up right in front of my eyes and then stuck it into my toe like he was throwing the javelin in the Olympics...I never loved a man so much in my life...20 seconds and all the blood and puss was removed and all I had to show for it was a narley toe nail with a hole in the middle of it...thanks Les Paul...lol

 

[msly]

Friends dont let friends play guitar without straplocks....

 

[punkin]

30th anniversay Les Paul...my buddies...I go to the neck for some hammer-ons...and the Les Paul dropped onto my big toe (right foot) like a sack of bricks...I literally caught it on the bounce on the way back up...my toe was killing me...throbbing...all night long my pulse was doing the salsa in my big toe...bum-bum....bum-bum...The next day I go to the family Dr. and he excuses himself, then comes back with a large jar full of something flammable and a "mini-icepick"....YEAH...he heated that bad boy up right in front of my eyes and then stuck it into my toe like he was throwing the javelin in the Olympics...I never loved a man so much in my life...20 seconds and all the blood and puss was removed and all I had to show for it was a narley toe nail with a hole in the middle of it...thanks Les Paul...lol

I forgot to mention...I'm a visual thinker Thanks for the graphical play by play