Stupid/clumbsy/unavoidable equipment fails on stage

[Waffles and Scotch]

So the thread entitled "don't try this at home" inspired this one...let's hear some of your stories of equipment fails on stage...whether caused by stupidity, clumsiness(sp?), act of God...

We played at a new venue a couple months ago and they had PA speakers mounted on the ceiling above the stage. Our rhythm guitarist goes to change guitars and hits one of the PA speakers with his brand new guitar (first time on stage with it). So I chuckled. Then I watched him proceed to mash the headstock into the same PA speaker, the speaker started swinging, smacked into the headstock again (actually 2 more times), and I see him make this "Oh ****!" face as he reaches up to stop it from swinging. Thankfully no damage was done to the guitar, but it was d*mn funny!

[upandb]

One time I forgot to plug my cab into my head. I was DI's so my bass came through but I had no sound on stage. Turns out it was one of the better gigs we played, but it was hard as hell to sing and not be able to hear myself.

A couple months back, we're playing at a bar. Turns out our guitarist left one of our PA cables at my house, without telling me (it was previously at his house). Needless to say I didn't bring it, not knowing I had it. So I drove home and got it. Set everything up, PA doesn't work. Can't figure it out so I run back home and grab our other PA speaker. That ALSO didn't work. Still couldn't figure it out so my dad brought a guitar amp we had lying around. Plugged the mic into that, into the PA speakers, and it was ok.

Lost a bit of money because we got a late start, but it was just one of those nights that I wanted to pound a couple beers and let someone else solve the problem.

[BryanM]

Once had a show with house provided "PA" (powered Yorkville mixer with 2 dead and 6 good channels, and 2 frayed rat fur Yorkville speakers.) Got to the show early and everything was going well; I had brought my own mixer so we had more channels but didn't have an amp available, so we got the stage set up, all the mics plugged into my mixer and mine run into the house mixer/amp. We dropped the lines for the speaker and noticed the speaker jacks were bashed inside of the housing on the house mixer, so I ended up wiring up my bass amp as a PA amp using the effects return as an input. It worked great for that night and actually sounded better at that bar than we have in the past, but my bass amp's been acting up since. Probably a blown fuse or something but I haven't had time to get it fixed since every show we've played since I can just run direct.