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02-10-2013, 06:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: Minneapolis | | | This was a first
I've only been gigging a year now and I thought I've experienced every train wreck possible and played my way out of them all, but Saturday at a large private party with the dance floor full I had a new one thrown at me; strap unhooks just as the song gets rolling.  First I tried holding the bass up with my knee and standing on one foot - and that wasn't going to cut it - and then I tried to quick reattach the strap and hope no one noticed - and then the other side of the strap falls off as I got the one side back on. 
So, resourceful performer that I've become, I hook the E string with my pinkie and third finger and hold the bass up with just those two fingers and continue playing (luckily I didn't really need the E string in this song). I don't think anyone even noticed. |
02-10-2013, 06:26 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Carvin,Modulus, Hotwire & Conklin Basses, Eden Amps | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Nashville,TN | | Just finally broke down and got strap locks after having my well-loved Comfort Strap attempt to do me in the other night....I surrender!
Nice save! Well played!  |
02-10-2013, 06:29 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Fender Basses, Ampeg, Curt Mangan Strings | | Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: South Shore, Massachusetts | | | STRAP LOCKS!
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02-10-2013, 06:46 PM
|  | Say something once, why say it again? | | Join Date: May 2011 Location: Saint Johns, Michigan | | | Another vote for strap locks, and mad props for your resourcefulness and quick thinking. |
02-10-2013, 06:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Jacksonville, Florida | | Quote:
Originally Posted by tekdiver500ft  Another vote for strap locks, and mad props for your resourcefulness and quick thinking. | Exactly this. |
02-10-2013, 06:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Virginia | | | One year of gigging and you think you've experienced everything?! You underestimate the musician's path, sir... |
02-10-2013, 07:09 PM
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Endorsing artist: Lakland basses | | Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Chicago | | Quote:
Originally Posted by HeavyJazz77 One year of gigging and you think you've experienced everything?! You underestimate the musician's path, sir... | Yep.
(And, um.. get some washers.)  |
02-10-2013, 07:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: East Central Wisconsin | | | Strap locks weren't invented yesterday. Just saying... |
02-10-2013, 07:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Perth, Western Australia | | Nice save 
I've been caught out with loose screws before. Strap locks won't help ya there. Be sure to keep an eye on those screws for tightness now and again. Carry matchsticks with your screwdriver as well
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02-10-2013, 07:23 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Burlington, Vt. | | The first time that happened to me was 40 years ago  . No Straploks back then; there was a complicated leather 2 ply flap-like affair that you put behind the end pin, and at the other end was a screw and a T-nut that you bolted through the strap end. It never, ever came loose. Thank god for Straploks!
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02-10-2013, 07:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada | | Quote:
Originally Posted by HeavyJazz77 One year of gigging and you think you've experienced everything?! You underestimate the musician's path, sir... | Yup. Another vote for the strap locks too. |
02-10-2013, 07:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2002 Location: Shaw AFB, South Carolina | | Get a fearful
oops........................sorry, wrong forum 
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02-10-2013, 07:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Texas | | My Gawd! YES, this has happened to me a couple of times in those days of old! I almost dropped my pride and joy......
I went to Dunlop strap locks and don't worry about it anymore......except MAKE SURE that they lock into place! I double check mine each night by trying to pull them apart because one time when I THOUGHT I had locked it down....boom! I almost dropped my bass again!
Oh and like Roy Vogt posted....Nice Save!!!
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02-10-2013, 07:59 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: VT | | Quote:
Originally Posted by sobie18 Get a fearful
oops........................sorry, wrong forum | I like the cut of your jib. |
02-10-2013, 08:35 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Ottawa, Canada | | | I gave up on strap locks after too many "false positives". So I just use oversized holders. You have to unscrew the holders to remove the strap.
Still have to check the screws now and then though. |
02-10-2013, 08:49 PM
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HPF Technology: Protecting the Pocket since 2007 | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Madison WI | | | I use strap locks, and never undo the strap. The whole thing just goes into the gig bag, strap and all. |
02-10-2013, 09:01 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Baton Rouge | | On Saturday, the guitarist in one of my bands just about dropped his Les Paul when his strap came off in the middle of a song. And he was using straplocks! I'm not sure what was going on. Once he reattached the strap, the cable came unplugged from the guitar. I think he was ready to call it quits. 
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02-11-2013, 12:31 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Squierville, California | | | We he playing well ? It sounds to me like the guitar was trying to escape. |
02-11-2013, 07:54 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: Minneapolis | | Quote:
Originally Posted by seanm I gave up on strap locks after too many "false positives". So I just use oversized holders. You have to unscrew the holders to remove the strap.
Still have to check the screws now and then though. | I like this idea. It's not as if I ever take the strap off anyway. I'd never worried about it before, but then I caught Victor Wooten a few weeks back at one of his Guitar Center Q&As and took to heart his advice to worry less about "playing" the bass and instead "groove" with the bass. Transformational. Of course now that I'm suddenly jumpin' and boppin' and all manner of swingin' up there  the strap doesn't stand a chance without something to hold it on permanently. |
02-11-2013, 07:57 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: Minneapolis | | Quote:
Originally Posted by sobie18 Get a fearful
oops........................sorry, wrong forum | No, perfect. Now that I'm a gigging monster I got myself a GB STL-9.2 for Xmas and I'm agonizing over whether I pull the trigger on a F112 or F115. It's like you're psychic. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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