Tenderly

shoeline · #1 08-15-2007, 02:29 PM

Working on a cruise ship a few months ago. ``The summer breeze caress the trees, tender.......crash! my strap breaks. I played the next couple of numbers holding my bass up with 2 fingers of my right hand and took everything up an octave because it was all segued.

TheDarkReaver · #2 08-15-2007, 03:11 PM

could you not have sat down?

shoeline · #3 08-15-2007, 03:25 PM

no chair

TheDarkReaver · #4 08-15-2007, 03:35 PM

the floor?

shoeline · #5 08-15-2007, 03:56 PM

yeah. Could've done that. Would rather suffer for beauty i guess.

sixway · #6 09-02-2007, 07:23 PM

Had the same thing happen recently... dropped to one knee and played the rest of the song from a kneeling position. Guitar player had a spare strap... and the band played on....

alfredpunkjazz · #7 09-03-2007, 12:20 AM

That's exactly were onstage monitors do something usefull... LOL

Smallmouth_Bass · #8 09-03-2007, 12:33 AM

It happened to me once as well and that's when I used the stage monitors to prop up a knee and rest it there. Luckily, it was the last song of the set and I had another strap. I always make a point to have a spare now especially since all my basses have the Schaller straplocks.

sixway · #9 09-03-2007, 02:13 AM

Would have used a monitor, but I would've had to kick the sax players over the edge of the stage!

Wasp · #10 09-05-2007, 02:00 AM

Us sax players prefer to play in the audience anyway