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11-27-2006, 11:50 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: London, England | | | Attack of the killer bass!!
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Hey folks!
Well, this topic shouldn't really be funny but.... you gotta admit some stories can be hilarious
So, what injuries have you sustained playing bass guitar? or just through musical instruments in general.
I'll start, I once dropped a bass guitar on my foot,  doesnt sound too bad, but theycan hurt. |
11-27-2006, 11:54 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: NY | | | I've never hurt myself, but I once had to hurt a drunk in the crowd to get him to back off. He was pretty wasted, and dancing like a jackass right up close to the band. Well, he was making a scene and ruining the mood. He came right up to me and my bass, started to pretend to eat the bass strings up by the headstock. I had enough of this guy, so I whacked him midsong right in the teeth with one of the tuning pegs. He stumbled backwards holding his mouth, sat at the bar and passed out. No more trouble from him that night! |
11-27-2006, 12:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: London, England | | | haha great story, sounds like he had it coming |
11-27-2006, 12:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: South Africa | | | Smacked myself in the head twice on the same night while practicing.
Was just one of those co-ordination less days, and both times with enough to make my head throb for a good few minutes after, and no, I was not trying to do any stunts.
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11-27-2006, 12:44 PM
| | Poop? | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Toronto, Canada | | | My dad has stubbed his toes on my pedal in my room numerous times. I have done it once or twice as well. It freaking kills.
My left (fretting) hand (when clenching) down by the pinky/side of the hand has been giving me reasonable amounts of pain and discomfort for the last 2 weeks, so I've got a doctor's appointment to see wh at's up, and potentially some x-rays. Hopefully it's nothing too serious.. I've got an audition for a second band (I'm in one band, and I jam and write with a friend from high school regularly), so this will be horribly devastating if I have to stay off bass/computer for a coupel weeks or something.. especially since my job involves using a computer for 8 hours a day. |
11-27-2006, 01:53 PM
|  | That's the way uh huh uh huh I like it.. | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Robbinsville, NJ | | | In a drunken state at one gig, doing a Who cover, I attempt a windmill. (yes, on bass with a pick, I know I know..) slammed the side of my right hand down hard on the G-string adjusting screw on my badass2 bridge. Didnt stop playing, didnt miss a beat but it hurt like all hell. Did get me some recognition with the blood spattered on my bass and strings. "Dude, that is so f*rkin HARD core!" Finished the set, casually sauntered into the bathroom and shrieked and wailed like a little girl cradling my wittle boo-boo'ed mitt.
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11-27-2006, 02:40 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: SE Florida | | | This Saturday night during break down, I stepped off the stage (3’ high) to a temporary step. Of course my hands were full. I got my foot off the edge, and down I went.
Got lucky and was not hurt (except my pride).
Be carfull. |
11-27-2006, 02:52 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Lincolnshire, UK | | | i hear some austrailian dude got killed by a stingray. |
11-27-2006, 02:53 PM
| | | | I once hit the ceiling light in my room with my headstock, only to have it crash to the floor and break into many pieces. |
11-27-2006, 02:58 PM
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Originally Posted by TheDarkReaver i hear some austrailian dude got killed by a stingray. | BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO |
11-27-2006, 05:04 PM
| | Registered User
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Does that count? |
11-28-2006, 04:57 AM
| | | | my guitarist fell off a 9foot high stage with his brand new 60-70lb guitar head landing on his chest!! not so good! |
11-28-2006, 06:03 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: Austria , Villach | | | Haven't hurt myself, but at one of our last gigs, i was standing in front of the stage.
We just started playing a cover for encore... Killin gin the name of, so after the few bars, when the main riff starts, i swirl around, not looking back, and hit my singer with the headstock on the throat.
She took some heavy breaths, but was fine and started to sing in time. |
11-28-2006, 06:54 AM
| | | | Strap slipped from the bridge end of my bass.... of course i was still holding the neck,, and the body swung pendulum style swinig the headstock towards my face and planted a tuner into my mouth chipping a few teeth.... |
11-28-2006, 07:21 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Laramie, Wyo | | | When I was a junior in high school I managed to crush my right pinky in a set of marching tenors (set of four or five drums). Since then I have a slightly deformed finger and one hell of a story.
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11-28-2006, 07:38 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: The little red dot on the map. | | | Hit my teeth(Bled a bit) a couple of times when strapping it on.
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11-28-2006, 09:50 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: London, England | | these stories are great. That tuner to the teeth sounds pretty damn painful. Thats why i use straplocks  And yes stabbing yourself with string ends does count, im sure everyones done it.
keep 'em comin folks! |
11-28-2006, 09:55 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: The little red dot on the map. | | | Enough with the Steve Irwin jokes aite
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11-28-2006, 10:06 AM
| | Poop? | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Toronto, Canada | | | +1.. that's seriously ****ing uncalled for |
11-28-2006, 10:13 AM
| | | | Calm down kids, that was bloody hysterical. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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