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08-25-2009, 11:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Bloomingdale,IL | | | So what's the most severe/fun injury you have caused when playing live?
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I only play at church, so my opportunities to brain my fellow bandmates are limited, so I ask all of you for stories of inspiration. What are the worst or just simply the funnyest (I know that isn't a real word) injury you have caused while playing live? Even if it was yourself, a fan, a bandmate, your mother, or a nun.
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08-25-2009, 11:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: New York | | | While head banging playing with a metal band in high school i didnt realize how close i was to the drums, and smacked my face on his crash cymbal, but no actual injury, just funny lol
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08-25-2009, 11:52 PM
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08-25-2009, 11:54 PM
|  | Nothing over 40hz - it just stings a little. | | Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Sydney - Australia | | | eye strain = chicks at gigs (distracting and severely bad for your health when the girlfriend catchs you perving....)
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08-26-2009, 12:08 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Singapore | | | I recently jumped off a thigh-high stage while holding my combo amp in one hand. Mid-flight, i realised my folly and the combo amp smacking into my hip confirmed my mid-air logic.
I got bruised for a few days, but luckily it was a 1x8 combo, and not something like a 2x10.
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08-28-2009, 12:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Victoria, BC, Canada | | | I think my worst injuries have always been my plucking fingers.. for some reason at shows I tend to play really hard and my fingers take a beating. On more than one occasion I've had to limp through half of the set with giant, blood-filled balloons on the ends of my first two fingers of my plucking hand. Fortunately they're usually somewhat numb by the time they get that bad, but once you stop playing for a few minutes, good luck doing anything at all with those fingers for a few days.
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08-28-2009, 01:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Western Pennsylvania | | Quote:
Originally Posted by ::Saint:: I think my worst injuries have always been my plucking fingers.. for some reason at shows I tend to play really hard and my fingers take a beating. On more than one occasion I've had to limp through half of the set with giant, blood-filled balloons on the ends of my first two fingers of my plucking hand. Fortunately they're usually somewhat numb by the time they get that bad, but once you stop playing for a few minutes, good luck doing anything at all with those fingers for a few days. | When this starts happening, I put on some banjo finger picks to finish up.
I once played a brown note, that was messy...
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08-28-2009, 03:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: northern virginia | | | guitarist stepped on my cable during my solo,... punched him in the face and kept going.
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08-28-2009, 03:34 PM
|  | Life is Tough. Laugh more. Moderator | | Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Warwick, Rhode Island, USA | | Ripped a right hand finger nail when digging in back in
January. Bled a bit I didn't stop playing, but at the end of the
set I realized my shirt and bass were covered with blood spatters all over.
My guitar player was shaking his head. I just said, 'If you ain't
bleeding, you didn't play hard enough'. Wore it as a badge of honor. 
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08-28-2009, 03:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Thor Ripped a right hand finger nail when digging in back in January. | Ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow. Ow ow ow ow ow. Ow.
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08-28-2009, 04:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Birmingham, AL | | | I always tend to hit my band's vocalist somehow or another...the last gig, i hit him in the groin with my bass. He took it like a man and played it off nicely...but i think he just needs to start watching out. |
08-28-2009, 04:55 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Chicago | | Darn Brecker Brothers. 
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08-28-2009, 04:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Belfast, Ireland | | | Worst injury I've had was just after a gig, helping with the load out, carrying a rather large 2x12 guitar combo out, coming through the very heavy firedoors when someone slams it shut, sandwiching my finger between it and the amp, broke the tip of two of my fingers and couldn't use them for quite a while.
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08-28-2009, 05:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Santa Barbara, Ca | | | Years ago, on tour in England opening for Motorhead. The guitar player I was touring with, ended the song by spinning his right arm in a circle, hitting a power chord every time he pass the strings ala Pete Townshend.
Next thing we know, His whammy bar went through his hand completly and broke off. I went to the hospital with him for the removal of the whammy bar and the numeral stiches.
Good thing it was the last song. |
08-28-2009, 06:12 PM
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Originally Posted by johnnydi Next thing we know, His whammy bar went through his hand completly and broke off. I went to the hospital with him for the removal of the whammy bar and the numeral stiches.
Good thing it was the last song. | YEEOOOWWW! ...sounds nasty man...did he recover?
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08-28-2009, 06:16 PM
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Originally Posted by addylewis YEEOOOWWW! ...sounds nasty man...did he recover? | Yes and he is still doing It but without the whammy bar. |
08-28-2009, 09:09 PM
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