We were playing Mr. Brightside - which we played well except....

A guitarist (metal dude) in my band had his fingers off of the fretboard and his guitar was feeding back quite loudly. The other guitarist was playing - just him - the main meoldy for the song. The feedback was literally drowning out the guitar line. So I went up to the feedback demon and put MY hand on his fretboard to silence him! He understood..... and then we all had a good laugh about it.

The guitarist for the band I'm in ALWAYS plays with earplugs (which is good and all, but...) he doesn't realize how deafeningly loud the feedback is. He'll occasionally dumbly let it ring out between songs during stage banter or announcing the next song, thinking it sounds cool. Meanwhile I'm sure nobody in the audience had any idea what he just said.

On the other hand, I saw this Irish style punk band last night. One of the guys used a vintage Marshall head with a Squier guitar. It made a beautiful feedback that wasn't loud or annoying, that in combination with bending the Squier neck for a whammy effect made it even cooler.

Don't you love it when you sit your bass down for a while and forget to turn the volume knobs down. Then you get that wicked feedback sound that sounds like a foghorn with a cold

I hate it when guitards do that! f**kin' silence your geetar dopey! I always mute as soon as I stop playing, it just sounds nicer than uncontrollable noise....

I think it goes along with the guitar ego thing - they just have to find another way to make noise as if their main guitar line of the song and 7 solos were not enough.

Still, the guitarist I did this to had a good laugh about it. He's a metal guy, metal guys doing alternative music can work if the musician exercises some control - we usually have to tell him to have a less distorted tone, but it works out in the end.