What is the reason for the detachable power cords on amps?

Yeah I keep two or three or more of everything. I have shit I use at home, and it stays home, and I have a backpack full of cables and cords for practice/gigs. Nothing gets forgotten. Although I did forget my guitar one time. I realized it halfway to practice. I was looking in my rear view mirror into the back of my SUV....okay I see the cab, head, backpack full of shit, guitar stand, fan, cooler of beer......fuck! No guitar! :facepalm:
 
Doesn't matter even doing a careful pre-orginized pre-checked 'pack, driving away I still have that 'what'd I miss' going. What cracks me up is getting better at simplifying (consolidating' again), it comes attached as 'damn, that pack' was too easy'.
F**k me :rolleyes: :p
 
I was looking in my rear view mirror into the back of my SUV....okay I see the cab, head, backpack full of shit, guitar stand, fan, cooler of beer......fuck! No guitar!
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Curious-- Ya know I could handle loosing different stuff, but my guitar-- hmm.
Anybody do this..? 'Settling back in at home, maybe dosing off for the night occasionally I'll get this 'replay.
The vision has 'took it out..' But did I actually bring it in!
A few times I've actually got back up.
 
I know a guy that lost his SG, in it's hardcase, out the back of his truck somehow on the way home from a gig in the middle of the night. He reckons he lost it on a major Houston interstate since that was the majority of his route and I remember him putting it into his truck. He was a little tipsy. I even said something to the effect of "dude, put that in the cab". He was totally devastated and heartbroken. About 6 weeks later he got it back via anonymous UPS shipment, totally unharmed. Crazy.
 
Greg_L said:
Guitarists are such pussies. They're always so threatened and scared by better musicians. If they weren't such prissy losers the drummer wouldn't be able to steal their women.
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Q: What do you call someone who hangs out with musicians?

A: A drummer.
 
Greg_L said:
That would be your own damn fault.

And you could always swipe one off a cash register or computer monitor or jukebox or video poker machine.
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TIP: Second-hand stores always have several in stock, usually for about a buck.

What I never see is a UPC cord that has a right-angle on BOTH ends. And if I found one, it would no doubt angle the wrong way.
 
Greg_L said:
I wish someone, somewhere, anyone, anywhere, could come up with an original drummer joke that hasn't been told 7 billion times already. Please. Someone.
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Hmmm... thinking... thinking... smoke coming from my ears...

Nope. I got nothing.
 
I'm a bassist and keyboardist, and one evening I turned up to a Blues Brothers tribute band gig (I was depping on keyboards) to find that I had brought the wrong gig bag! I had an amp, a keyboard stand and my Nord Electro 3 keyboard and no cables at all. A quick whip-round among the band came up with an IEC lead for my amp, a figure-8 lead for the keyboard and a spare guitar lead, and I was back in business! These things do happen occasionally, and surely a missing but easy-to-replace cable is better than a fixed one that's damaged.
 
Simon Beck said:
I'm a bassist and keyboardist, and one evening I turned up to a Blues Brothers tribute band gig (I was depping on keyboards) to find that I had brought the wrong gig bag! I had an amp, a keyboard stand and my Nord Electro 3 keyboard and no cables at all. A quick whip-round among the band came up with an IEC lead for my amp, a figure-8 lead for the keyboard and a spare guitar lead, and I was back in business! These things do happen occasionally, and surely a missing but easy-to-replace cable is better than a fixed one that's damaged.
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I know PCs from the 80's had the removable power cables. They also were the first electronic item I know that were standard multi-voltage (flip a switch) without being a special product.
 
arcaxis said:
Never would happen would it........ get to a gig and find that your detachable cable got left back home. :eek: :)

Maybe someone has one you could borrow, right? :rolleyes:
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I've got half a dozen extras in my power cable bag, enough to hand out to guitarists who forget theirs. Most of them I found on stage while packing up my PA.
 
bouldersoundguy said:
I've got half a dozen extras in my power cable bag, enough to hand out to guitarists who forget theirs. Most of them I found on stage while packing up my PA.
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So, there's a shit load of peeps.. with no cords
;)
I hear the back side of the moon ...has the lost socks, most of these cables.. and the picks of course!
 
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