quick question

[fingmung]

just wondering, if i were to play slide with a beer bottle, and as a result splashed the guitar with its contents, would i cause ANY damage??? chris cheney from the living end does this and was wondering if it was a good idea or not b4 i go ahead pretending to b a rockstar, but end up a dickhead with a ruined axe.

 

[ibanezrocks]

thats why u should always drnink beer out of cans

 

[JKestle]

drink the beer first!

Slide with the empty bottle (keep one by the amp for the occassion).

You don't want beer spilling into the electronics. While it may not make your guitar blow up, over the long run it's a bitch to clean.

 

[Dani Pace]

Why Risk It?

Why risk doing damage to your axe? Slides come in a wide variety of materals, thicknesses, weights and colors as well as being a lot easier to use than a bottle. Granted it may look cool to just grab a bottle and go, and if you've had plenty of experience with slide it may work. If you use the same guitar for slide and regular playing you will also get a very sticky guitar if you spill beer (or anything else except WD40, maybe) on it. also you will risk shorting something or at least getting beer in one or more of your pots and that will make a guitar sound like crap. If you have a rosewood fingerboard you should never deliberately put anything other than a little lemon oil on it. One last thing, it took me more than twenty years of playing to realize that alcohol and guitars do not mix, both the internal and external kinds.

 

[JKestle]

Rock and Roll calls for the beer bottle!

I understand fingmung.

 

[philboyd studge]

Shooters are better...attracts a higher class of female and a shotglass makes a better slide.

 

[Dani Pace]

Wow, tried the shotglass, worked fine, then tried a jigger glass, it worked better and reached all the way across the strings...cool!