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Any Homer Simpson Moments with your Guitar?

geetarman	Date: March 27, 2004 @ 8:42 AM I feel stupid even writing this: I went to my music store and ask the man about some new strings. I said I was looking for a heavy bottom E and a 13 guage high E. I get home and put them. Right away the bridge of my G&L is coming out of the back end of my guitar. I take the guitar back to show the tech. He started laughing. He said you have an acoustic set of strings! He says you can tell because they are bronze colored... I felt like an idiot. But the sales guy got quite a ribbing also for selling me the string as electric... I didn't read the package I was just looking at the numbers! Needless to say we got those strings off real quick and everything was normal. Doh! Anybody have these kind of moments?
tossom	Date: March 27, 2004 @ 3:34 PM I've only ever had one real "doh" moment with my guitar and it happened during a gig right at the start of a song! I broke two strings at once (E and A I think), I still to this day have no idea how I broke both of them! Anyway -thinking on my feet I unplugged, it threw it onto a stand and picked up my spare so I could continue playing. When I started playing again I stood there and looked confused for a while as there was no sound coming from the amp. I'd plugged in the wrong lead...
daneek	Date: March 28, 2004 @ 12:44 PM i havnt had any really bad ones...but one time my friend was tuning and he was playing the g string but tuning the b string and that the g string snapped and he almost wet himself. it was hilarious. also i saw on a forum somewhere that a guy plugged a 100w marshall head into a 10w practice amp and the prac. amp blew the hell up and the guy was flung back into a wall when he played a chord
daneek	Date: March 28, 2004 @ 12:45 PM typo...sry the b string snapped
Arthen	Date: March 28, 2004 @ 3:24 PM i change my strings every 2 weeks coz they snap real fast...once I went "fuck i snapped my G string!!!" then I realized there was no G on those 6.....HWKAWHAWUHKWUAHKUWHKUAHHK :laugh: hiccup
Arthen	Date: March 28, 2004 @ 3:25 PM oh wait a minute there isss haahahahahahahaahha!
Etheracide	Date: March 28, 2004 @ 9:16 PM This is a public service announcement from a caring friend at D-Music. Friends don't let friends drink and post on message boards. I haven't really done anything like that with a guitar. But I did manage to snap both the low E and the G in one motion. Which seems pretty difficult since there's two strings between 'em hehe Actually..there are some times when I incorrectly hookup patch cords and then wonder why I can't hear anything. I do feel pretty retarded then.
ronnie71	Date: March 29, 2004 @ 12:09 AM I didnt realize there was a screw in the back to adjust the tremelo.. so i had these heavier strings on and the brigde looked like a T it was quiter funny cause i didnt know you good adjust it but i had great tone with those heavier gage strings.. also my first guitar was a classical guitar payed way too much for it.. and it need new strings. I was told to start off with heavier gage strings for learning purposes.. well i get heavy gage acoustic strings and strung them on this classical guitar. About the third string(D) the bridge pops off and hits me in the face. Scared the shit of me.
shinkaide	Date: April 1, 2004 @ 4:31 PM I once played a lead three keys higher than it should have been. "Quick, hit the delay and reverb pedals! Mebbe they won't notice!!!"
never123	Date: April 13, 2004 @ 12:37 PM Me personally have never really done anything stupid. But my friend has. He was at my house and he braught his bass. We were setting things up and he decided to plug his bass into my amp and turned it full blast.. Well he played a note and the amp blew.. he still owes me the $.
pog	Date: April 13, 2004 @ 6:14 PM when I used to have a korean strat squire, I was showing someone how the tremelo works, and the arm snapped off completely... I was like ... oops
Distilled1	Date: April 13, 2004 @ 8:59 PM I've done the plug in the wrong lead on stage trying to recover from a broken string
MisledMayhem	Date: April 13, 2004 @ 9:33 PM hmm, yes I've yelled "my g-string broke!" many times too lol, and I have a bad habbit of trying to be entertaining on stage and end up unplugging my guitar lol
JimiMan1535	Date: April 18, 2004 @ 9:53 PM lol only issue was that i broke a high E on my les paul at a party and it got me right in the eye lol
professional...	Date: April 20, 2004 @ 1:05 PM i once played a stereophonics song. (but keep that quiet.)
tossom	Date: April 20, 2004 @ 4:29 PM Hehe! I think I've done that in the past too...
synesthesia	Date: April 28, 2004 @ 11:05 PM i was playing my guitar once and i got mugged and horribly beaten hahahahahaha.....DOH!
victorsskull	Date: April 28, 2004 @ 11:34 PM I hate it when I pock my finger on the bottom e string by the tuners instant blood and it hurts like a mo fo
woodhead	Date: April 29, 2004 @ 12:58 AM I feel of the stage once, how is that, really happend, damn that sucked
woodhead	Date: April 29, 2004 @ 1:00 AM About the third string(D) the bridge pops off and hits me in the face. Scared the shit of me
woodhead	Date: April 29, 2004 @ 1:01 AM I feel of the stage on THat is fell, where is my full moon!
sideation	Date: April 29, 2004 @ 5:56 PM I have somehow manage to hit myself in the head with the neck of my guitar numerous times. I am not really sure I do it, but I have almost broken my glasses doing it.
Traf	Date: May 10, 2004 @ 12:40 PM Not so much a moment with the guitar but just a great moment I'll always remember.. I was doing a gig at a place called the Dolphin in S.E. Engalnd.. The other guitarist, Mac, that was in the band is a polio victim and has to sit down and play.. It was a summers evening and the doors were open and we were quite a loud band. We had just finished a number when this woman came bursting through the door carrying this small baby... she walked straight up to Mac and thrust this baby into his arms shouting.. YOU BLOODY WELL GET HIM TO SLEEP.. and walked back out the door... We were just gob smacked and the bar manager had to take the baby back to the house next door where the woman lived... We turned down a bit after that...
BedroomSessions	Date: May 12, 2004 @ 1:26 PM yeah i hit my lip with one of the tuning knobs on my strat and i would have said doh if i wasnt bleeding so badly. i washed it up, then 2 minutes later i hit the fucker again
Intergalacti...	Date: May 12, 2004 @ 3:17 PM Loadsa times... Couldnt figure out why no osund was comin out of my amp i tried three different guitars through it change the plug at the mains into a different socket fiddled with all the volums I was probably there for about five to ten minutes in a gig when all I had to do was put the power on on the amp. You know in some guitar cases they got a velcro strap to hold the neck in place? I couldnt get the guitar out of the bag so I was pullin really hard and had to get my mate to come and help and I was still pullin without noticin he pulled the velcro off and it came straight out and smashed me in the face it moved my teeth outta place I still look really stupid today. I got loads
mystery-machine	Date: July 1, 2004 @ 5:39 PM "Doh!!!" After reading everyones storys I feel fortunate. Ever loose a pick ( if you happen to be using one) inside the guitar while you are playing an acoustic???...And then-at some point, depending upon the situation- you have to turn the guitar upside down and shake it around until the pick falls back out?! DOH!...man I hate it when that happens!
LimeGreenLegend	Date: July 1, 2004 @ 6:33 PM I keep hitting myself in the jaw when takin my guitar off after standing up and playing.
BedroomSessions	Date: July 1, 2004 @ 6:36 PM hahaha the acoustic thing....YES!!! or when youre looking for a pick and its in your mouth...thats a fave of mine too
jordanthegreat	Date: August 24, 2004 @ 9:22 PM i dropped a battery on a few day old godin lg, pissed me off but oh well
geetarman	Date: August 25, 2004 @ 5:35 PM This is too cool! I feel much better now knowing some others have suffered the same fate...
tossom	Date: August 27, 2004 @ 3:17 PM Didn't Slash smash his face open on stage when bending the neck of his Les Paul? Nobody has topped that yet! Still, some good stories
Droquen	Date: August 27, 2004 @ 6:45 PM I've done the acoustic pick thing a nice few times. Also, I broke a string once and had no extras, so a friend loaned me this old, worn, rusty string. We finally got it on and when we wanted to take it off, it wouldn't come out. Ended up having to resort to a toothpick to get it out of the bridge. Took awhile to come up with that ingenius idea.
SirSnipe	Date: August 28, 2004 @ 12:04 PM One time i was tuning my acoustic, this is around when i first started playing, and i was tuning my low E string, it was REALLY loose and i kept tuning and it didnt become tighter. So i thought it was just snapped outa place some were, but to make sure i kept tuning it. Then suddenly snap,damn g chord almost hit me in the eye. I realized i was tuning the wrong string, and in fear of breaking another string i slowly put down my guitar. Plus not to mention all the guitar-to-head-dropped-pick-momments.
SirSnipe	Date: August 29, 2004 @ 12:29 AM OK this just happened an hour ago, i was recording a "live" concert with my band mate, and the hole thing was us being stupid, unless we were playing a song, so he said some stupid stuff and although he was doing all the guitaring since hes better at it, he said i was the true guitarist of the band, and i just let him play. He gave me the guitar, and in joking matter i was about to play a really crappt solo, 5 notes, A string broke-_-. You can listen to the hole concert and the string break on my page.
8111	Date: September 24, 2004 @ 10:09 PM I actually(this is kind of embarrassing) have run out of strings at band practice and have tied two broken strings(same gauge) together just to get thru rehearsal. Usually the knot was above the nut, (you have to use a really good knot or they will keep slipping out of tune) once I had the knot in the middle of the fretboard, amazingly, it was a B string (unwound) and worked pretty well that nite, my intonation was pretty good and and the knot was small enough to not interfere with my playing. I was between jobs and broke, O.K.?!?
tsand19151	Date: October 7, 2004 @ 8:59 AM I use to tie e-strings together...boy, those were the days. Not one red cent or a pot to piss in, but it was all about the music.
sqrlcub	Date: October 7, 2004 @ 9:06 AM It's not exactly a Homer Simpson moment, but when I started playing classical, no one taught me how to tie on my strings so I came up with my own method. Basically I wind the strings around to make an eye before threading them through the bridge since in the end it makes it tighter rather than pulling them all through and then tying them in simple knots at the end. When I did it the latter way when tuning the instrument it would often pull the strings out of the bridge. Now I don't have the problem. However, according to my guitar teacher and most of the people who have seen me restring my guitar, I did it weird. Although, my guitar teacher started stringing his guitar that way later. Like I said, not exactly a Homer Simpson moment, but just something that I did backwards from most other people.
tsand19151	Date: October 7, 2004 @ 9:23 AM i was in a rock band years ago. when i'm on stage i'm usually pretty stationary. right before a gig the singer goes, "dude, ya gotta move around more!! jump up & down or spin or do something!!!" so during my first solo i said, "ok, maybe i should try a fancy spin move at the end of my solo. I did, i turned around hard and hit the singer right in the face with my axe. he went down to his knees, bloody nose and all. this was the first song and he did the rest of the gig with a busted nose. wasn't funny then, but we laugh about today.
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5thprojekt	Date: October 9, 2004 @ 8:48 AM was in the middle of some huge wanking solo ebhind my head and went to bring the guitar back down after, but dinged myself on the back of my skull with the geet, and started to fall. my main goal was not to stop my fall, but protect my bat-o-castor, so my nose left soem real nice blood stains on the floor!
geetarman	Date: October 9, 2004 @ 10:45 AM These stories are excellent! Homer would be proud
koiulpoi	Date: October 11, 2004 @ 6:11 PM Well, ok - this isn't a Homer story really, but it's funny as hell anyways. I bought me a classical guitar - a nice one, around $270 (i'm a beginner, and I'm poor). Well, i played it for a couple weeks. Consistantly, it was having some problems staying in tune in general - I was going to take it back to Guitar Center (hate that place, way too corporate) to have them check it out anyways. Well, I was at a lession, and all of a sudden, I hear "Creak...Creak Creak BLAM!" as the Bridge of the guitar seperates itself from the wood and flies off the guitar. The finish on the wood seperated, and there went my guitar. Back to guitar center I go, takes me probably an hour of arguing with them to convince them that it wasn't my fault at all (I took good care of it!) until they decided to take it back. When convinced though, they got VERY nice to me - I bought a new guitar then, and they refunded me all $270, plus a little extra, so I got a $450 guitar for a little more than tax.
geetarman	Date: October 13, 2004 @ 8:18 AM This happened last weekend.. I have a G&L and I just had it calibrated... So I thought I'd use the tremblo bar at the gig. So during the second set I put the tremblo bar onto my bridge. We start the song and halfway through I pressed down on the tremblo bar for my really cool effect. Bad part: The strings nearly fell off the guitar! I stood there in disbelief. We obviously had to take early break and I had to re-ture my guitar... I still don't understand what happened but we all had a good laugh...It'll be the last time I'll ever use that damn tremblo bar on that G&L!
Traf	Date: October 14, 2004 @ 7:58 PM I left my white Les Paul Custom, in it's case, leaning against a car park wall one night after a gig... When I got home and realized it wasn't in the van, I drove the 30 miles back there at the speed of light. When I arrived back at the car park in a cold sweat, it was still there... Lucky or what?
MindSculpture	Date: October 15, 2004 @ 5:03 AM I travelled down from Glasgow(Scotland) to Oxford(England) to do a gig... got as far as Birmingham(England)when I suddenly had a wee thought..did I remember to pack my effects??? 70 miles later..get out of the car and check the boot..NO FX! left them in my house at the top of the stairs. Ended up borrowing a distortin pedal from the other band, sounded a bit rough but the gig was still a stormer.
MindSculpture	Date: October 15, 2004 @ 5:10 AM ....just remembered another... was playing a gig in a student Union..getting right into a big solo in the middle of a song...when I looked up to see everyone leaving! I thought to myself - surely my playing is not that bad... when i stoped playing, the fire alarm had been going off for a few minutes - DOH
gothian	Date: October 15, 2004 @ 11:55 AM We were playing in a bar where the stage is about 2 feets tall, at the middle of the gig, we started to play a Slayer track (which you can hear in our band page), suddenly the crowd went crazy and the slam was insane. The stage (which was made from wood) started to move and it was like trying to play in the middle of an earthquake.... anyway, at some part, one guy from the audience flown and landed in my multy-effects turning it off. I didn't notice until one part where I play alone..... NO SOUND !!.... I was desperate trying to fix the problem in the middle of the earthquake, it must have taken me some seconds, but felt like an eternity - DOH !!
Hlao-roo	Date: October 15, 2004 @ 12:27 PM LOL... I have some as well... I am what you call a band geek... I was at my high school game, playing in the pep band. I play Trombone in the band, but I bring my guiutar there too play in between... Well since I play a brass instr, they put me in the back, which, coinsidintally, is also the highest... And the bleechers we were on were pull outs, so they were not solid... so, while I was palying some song with the band... I noticed someone accidentally nudged my guitar (Nice accoustic). This isn't a bad thing, except for the fact that they knocked it OFF THE SEATS... Well, I noticed it fall between the cracks and I swear I must have been up 20ft... The fall seemed to take forever.. I thought my axe was f*cked... But, by some stroke of luck it landed squarely on the tuning peg, and that took all of the force... Bent the heel out of it, but DIDN'T EVEN DETUNE IT!!! The noise was so loud, LOL.. DOING!!!! Not a scratch on it hahahahhahahaha! Also, My band teacher was tuning my friends bass with a piano... Now, I'd NEVER seen a bass string break... lol He was tuning it, and trying to make it sound like the piano: "bong...boong...booong...boooong" When it snapped in half... LOL He said right after "Oh, 'E'" I thought I would never stop laughing... hahahhahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Hlao-roo	Date: October 15, 2004 @ 12:30 PM Oh, one more thing... We were playing in a jazz concert just two days ago... my friend (with the bass) was using this shatty old amp from the school... We were in the middle of the song when the thing blew up.... OMG was it funny... Playing this nice Jazz tune and then all of the sudden you hear this deafening buzzing sound... Scared the shat out of everyone in the room.. hahahhahahahah
killoFunk	Date: October 15, 2004 @ 12:54 PM Has anyone been wrapping cables at the end of the night, talking, laughing and not expecting the end of the cable to come up off the ground in a b-lind for the groin area? Where was that note when i needed it for the Triumph song? he he.
geetarman	Date: October 19, 2004 @ 8:17 PM Ouch! Never thought you'd have to wear a cup for a gig Another set of great stories for the campfire!