Dumbest thing a person has ever done to your equipment?

Tylerrr51 · #1 01-17-2010, 03:39 PM

theres a couple threads about the dumbest thing someone said to you but i want to know has someone ever harmed your gear in anyway?

I'll start. last night i had 2 people over, both musicians, i was skating with 1 and came in and leaned the boards against my bed. the other one purposely tipped the two boards over so they would fall and scratch my bass, i caught the boards just in time!

i was furious! he doesn't really care about his guitars, he'd throw them off the roof if he could. I was about to punch him in the face.

your turn.

addylewis · #2 01-17-2010, 03:48 PM

My mate removed my strap recently and forgot about it when he gave me the bass back.

It's not major, but its bloody irritating - we were due to do a gig which didn't happen, I left my bass at his and when I got it back a few weeks later I found out he'd taken the strap off it and forgot to put it back on...it just annoys me to hell coz I NEVER take straps off coz the ends become loose and he knows this, he had no right going in my bag let alone removing the bloody strap!

Fair enough if I hadn't noticed, but...

Anyway other than that a while ago I loaned him a guitar and a zoom pedal, the guitar came back with a loose knob and he blamed ME for not putting it in a better case the cheeky bastard, then when I got the pedal back one of them was loose (he fixed it though)

Tylerrr51 · #3 01-17-2010, 03:53 PM

The person who tipped the boards over also brings his guitars and starts taking them apart and putting different parts on at my house! and if he didnt finish setting it up he shoves it all under my bed, and he also has a thing to mess with my truss rods while im out of the room. he has no respect for my house at all.

Nashrakh · #4 01-17-2010, 04:36 PM

Not really dumb, but irritating -

We share our rehearsal room with 2 other bands and they all have a tendency to put ashtrays and beer bottles on my amp.

5StringBlues · #5 01-18-2010, 01:03 AM

^ That's the one.

Put your beer bottle,ashtray,coat ( cooling fans don't like it when they can't cool ) , food,or whatever-the-**** someplace other than on top of my amp.Or I'll bite your bleedin' legs off!

kesslari · #6 01-18-2010, 01:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Tylerrr51

The person who tipped the boards over also brings his guitars and starts taking them apart and putting different parts on at my house! and if he didnt finish setting it up he shoves it all under my bed, and he also has a thing to mess with my truss rods while im out of the room. he has no respect for my house at all.

And you let this person in and give him access to your stuff because.... why?

Jefenator · #7 01-18-2010, 01:13 AM

A buddy of mine once witnessed a pint spill on a top-vented tube amp. It went kaplooey and sent up a plume of steam that literally formed a mushroom cloud. (He still doubles over laughing when ever he tells that story.)

So... yeah. Drinks atop my amp are a definite no-no. And I have to mention it often enough, I ought to make up a sign.

devnulljp · #8 01-18-2010, 01:49 AM

I had a guy try to use my Aria SB700 to close a high up window (well, it's long innit, it can reach).

The_Low_Dude · #9 01-18-2010, 02:08 AM

Almost every guitard that wants to check out my bass, starts popping and slapping, but almost all of them slap their thumbs against my pick-ups.

I always die a little inside when somebody does this.

Soverntear · #10 01-18-2010, 05:33 AM

i once left my practice amp at my guitarist place. i cqame bacjk a week or so later to find all the back stickers gone (its 80's amp, i wanted the damn OG stickers still) and it was also covered in white wax. i will never leave equipment at his place again

tdogg · #11 01-18-2010, 05:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Tylerrr51

The person who tipped the boards over also brings his guitars and starts taking them apart and putting different parts on at my house! and if he didnt finish setting it up he shoves it all under my bed, and he also has a thing to mess with my truss rods while im out of the room. he has no respect for my house at all.

i suggest you stop letting him in your house.

Tylerrr51 · #12 01-18-2010, 10:57 AM

Hes a good guitarist and a good friend, Ive told him to cut the **** and hes becoming a little bit better, im pretty close to the breaking point. the second he messes with the p bass im saving up for im gonna kick him out.

standupright · #13 01-18-2010, 11:01 AM

put an open drink on top of my amp or cabinet.

Papazita · #14 01-18-2010, 11:04 AM

Back in high school, I had this 1x15 combo that I was using. I left it at a friends all weekend, since we were going to be practing at his house. At some point, his cousin decided that his pos Pyle 12" car sub would be a better match for than the original speaker and swapped them out. Of course, a 12" speaker is not going to fill the space of a 15'', so he held it place with duct tape. Lots and lots of duct tape. And cardboard.

I told him to switch it back, and make damn sure that my amp was as good as new when he finished. He said he couldn't....the 15" didn't sound as good in his car as he thought it would, so he traded it for a cool new bong and a baggie of weed. But he'd be nice and let me keep the Pyle speaker.

Tylerrr51 · #15 01-18-2010, 11:06 AM

papazita man, that sucks.

s_mcsleazy · #16 01-18-2010, 11:11 AM

touch it

Gubna · #17 01-18-2010, 11:14 AM

my friend threw a bolt at my acoustic guitar.

and another time... at a gig... my singer says it's okay to use my amp. I say no, but some hot chick comes over and I tell her, alright, it's okay as long as you don't turn it past halfway up. Then, it turns out it's not her playing, she's not even in the band, and they guy playing it, kept turning it up! that was the last time that ever happened. I let my singer f'in have it.

Pilgrim · #18 01-18-2010, 11:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Tylerrr51

Hes a good guitarist and a good friend..

No, he's not a good friend. If he were, he would have respect for you and our instruments. He's no friend, he's an inconsiderate jerk and you ought to recognize it.

Tylerrr51 · #19 01-18-2010, 11:20 AM

pilgrim, you read my mind like a book. you just made me realize it.

Nashrakh · #20 01-18-2010, 11:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Jefenator

A buddy of mine once witnessed a pint spill on a top-vented tube amp. It went kaplooey and sent up a plume of steam that literally formed a mushroom cloud. (He still doubles over laughing when ever he tells that story.)

Haha, I once caught someone red handed as he put a nearly full beer bottle on my amp.

His response: "Chill out dude, a spill won't kill your amp."