Cymbal Slice

[jakeharris.]

Playing a show about a year ago I suddenly stopped hearing my bass. I quickly shuffled over wondering "***!?" as inconspicuously as possible to find myself starring at my 50 odd foot of jumbled lead I bought the week before thinking it would give me more room to move about the stage. Not knowing what could possibly be wrong I started turning my amp up and down, on and off, overdrive pedal on and off. When a guitarist from another band playing that night ran up to me shouting "It's your lead!" and quickly turning my amp and down and replacing my brand new lead with his own and showing me a clean slice through mine I was understandably shocked.

Turns out my drummers china cymbal fell off the drum riser and sliced my lead in half, ever since i've used a wireless lol

moral; more (sometimes) isn't better

anyone heard of this happening before?

[easyvision]

Now that is a first. Wow...never heard anything quite like that! That's really unfortunate...murphy's law strikes once again!

[Obe]

Originally Posted by jakeharris.

Playing a show about a year ago I suddenly stopped hearing my bass. I quickly shuffled over wondering "***!?" as inconspicuously as possible to find myself starring at my 50 odd foot of jumbled lead I bought the week before thinking it would give me more room to move about the stage. Not knowing what could possibly be wrong I started turning my amp up and down, on and off, overdrive pedal on and off. When a guitarist from another band playing that night ran up to me shouting "It's your lead!" and quickly turning my amp and down and replacing my brand new lead with his own and showing me a clean slice through mine I was understandably shocked.

Turns out my drummers china cymbal fell off the drum riser and sliced my lead in half, ever since i've used a wireless lol

moral; more (sometimes) isn't better

anyone heard of this happening before?

Not quite that tragic as it only involved a lead singer, but at one gig years ago, for some reason, somebody dropped or slammed down a mic stand, the kind with the heavy cast base, and it landed on and sliced through the lead vocal mike cord. As I said, only the vocals were effected so it was not as horrendous as losing the bass.

[debassr]

I don't understand how that's the moral in this case - but it's an interesting story.

[Number27]

Originally Posted by debassr

I don't understand how that's the moral in this case - but it's an interesting story.

well if he had less chord (read none) then it wouldn't have happend

[Naggon]

Something like this happened to me once.
My band was playing a show, when the drummer somehow knocked over the ride. As it fell, it managed to slice right through the (strategically placed) power cable for the club's PA system. All I remember is that there were a lot of sparks before someone must have turned off the power. Everything in the vicinity was melted, and there's a big burn mark where the cable burned about half an inch into the ride.

Danger-town, if I've ever been there.

[Trevorus]

Originally Posted by Number27

well if he had less chord (read none) then it wouldn't have happend

What chord would he be playing, or are bassists not supposed to play chords? (I'm giving you crap. It's spelled cord...)

[Siegy]

That actually happened to my band once. We were practicing a particularly high-energy song, and suddenly the drummer's crash cymbal falls over and slices the guitarist's instrument cable, and the two cables going to and from the pedal that controls his amp (so pretty much ALL of the guitarist's cables). It also left a pretty good ding in the cement floor. The cymbal itself was undamaged. This effectively ended practice haha.

[Obe]

We were practicing in a basement with evidently a poorly grounded electrical system, or ungrounded amps. I was playing guitar at the time. We practiced at pretty high volume, to keep up with our power drummer's sound level. The bass player leaned over to say something to the other guitar player, his nose touched the other guy's ear, and they both got a big shock, you could hear them curse over the music. Amazingly we didn't have to stop the song. This could have been deadly instead of funny though.

[sobie18]

The only cymbal problems I had was when I was gigging in Korea. we played Fri-Sun and I set up on the drummer's right (next to the china, ride, & crash).

Well, I had a hearing test early Monday morning that I promptly failed and had to re-test in a week. That was a close call...

[Demonturtle]

I'm guessing I win, few years ago I played in a punkrock band, everythings OK, great gig, people were having fun, and so were we. halfway through the set some drunk idiot decides to throw a bottle of wodka on to the stage, hits the head of my amp, breaks into a million pieces and the hole thing goes completely insane. Never again I will use a high class amp when I play a bar.

[jakeharris.]

that sucks, the only thing i lost was a $20 cable lol

yeah out drummer was nuts, he used to hit ridiculously hard and the drum riser we were using was tiny, so that probably had something to do with it

And yeah, i failed to explain myself properly, I used to use a 6 foot lead so i didn't have alot of room to move about the stage, so i went overkill and bought that huge thing, thus, more isn't always a good thing

was the first time i'd used it too

[dave64o]

The place is really jumping to the HiWatt amps
'Til a 20-inch cymbal fell and cut the lamps
In the blackout they danced right into the aisles
And as the doors fly open even the promoter smiles
Someone takes his pants off and the rafters knock
Rock is dead, they say
Long live rock!





Sorry, that popped into my head as soon as I saw the thread title.

[Adam Bomb]

Please don't get me wrong - Seth Pertocelli is an amazing young up-and-coming fighter, and I couldn't knock out Kimbo Slice in 14 seconds if I had a gun. But that was a fluke and everybody knows it. The man has built an astounding record, both on the street and now in the ring. He's got like 30 KOs and 2 losses. Don't count him out.

--Bomb

[ric stave]

I was in rehearsal one time a few years ago and the drummer hit his cymbal - it bounced up off the stand (was just setting on top, no nut) and landed sideways perfectly on the power cord going to the guitarist's pedalboard - cut it clean in half, shooting sparks for a few seconds, and burning a hole in the edge of the cymbal.

Wish I had video of that one....

[spunj13]

i took a falling high-hat to the back of the legs once... left a nice mark for a couple weeks...
and the same high hat went through the mesh in my guitarists (at that time... new) mesa cab. (he was pissed... he'd only had it a week or two at that point)

in an old band, i had a guitarist who went to hit one of the crashes with his head just as the drummer hit it... and caught the edge with his head... gashing it open just below his hairline.

[spunj13]

[ErebusBass]

Originally Posted by jakeharris.

that sucks, the only thing i lost was a $20 cable lol

yeah out drummer was nuts, he used to hit ridiculously hard and the drum riser we were using was tiny, so that probably had something to do with it

And yeah, i failed to explain myself properly, I used to use a 6 foot lead so i didn't have alot of room to move about the stage, so i went overkill and bought that huge thing, thus, more isn't always a good thing

was the first time i'd used it too

Yeah you went to the two extremes. 6' is way too short, but 50' is way too long. 20-25' is perfect.