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Ayup. Fell as I entered the stage and cut the heel of my right hand. My bass has been blooded. (This happened last century.)
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Stage injuries
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They definitely are attracted to my watch but I think the junk has more gravitational pull. This is all while over/under-ing.Yep, the only way to avoid getting hit in the ol' punching bag is to wear a nice watch. They seem to attract XLR ends more, probably because the damage is more permanent. That, or stop wrapping cables around your elbow and over/under them like a professional. It's also easier on the cable and avoids twists. I think that why I stopped. Nah, it was probably to make sure, at the rate I was taking hits, that the old plums were still functional in my later years.
I pity the fool wrapping over the elbow.
got my bell rung last year with the business end of our Bose Tower concussion and fractured orbital rim socket for those who are not sure what the business end of the Bose Tower looks like
all metal construction about 30 lbs sung up and hit me above my eye resulting in walnut sized bump with my eye swollen closed for days
still have a pea shaped lump
Winner!!Speaking of metal, when I was about 15 I had a stage experience - I had braces at the time, I approached the microphone not realizing there was a grounding / polarity issue - when I got close, a 6" blue white spark arced from the mic to my braces and knocked me back on my butt. I could taste the unique nastiness of "electric metal" in my mouth for weeks afterwards.
Regards
Mark
I've been accidentally hit in the face with a mic playing in a punk band--a stage diver who ran up onstage somehow smacked me in the nose with my own mic. I played the rest of the show with blood running down my face. Had the imprint of an SM58 grill on my nose and cheek for about a week!
Yep, I'm in the club--I just saw this after posting my story. But that video is WAY more punk than my experience!
Since i am always throwing the mich stand around when i am singing i worry about hitting one of the guitarists -the bass player stays way on the other side of the stage from me -smart man. 
Dunno. I'd have to ask the singer in one band I was once in who would know having had some direct experience with that very thing.
Boy was that guy ever a piece of work when it came to the opposite gender. So much so he strongly suspected his 'souvenir girl' knew it - and did it deliberately.
If so, he had it coming as far as the rest of the band was concerned.
I was once on stage with a guitarist who did a fancy spin move and high-sticked the female lead singer right in the mouth with his headstock. It kind of mangled her mouth a little, but she didn't lose any teeth. Lots of blood though.
I was in a band with a male lead singer who tried to be Roger Daltrey with the microphone. He usually pulled it off, but one night he swung that thing as fast and high as he could, like he was calf roping, and upon re-entry he missed and it hit him so hard in the head he was visibly stunned for a few seconds and got a nice knot out of it. That was pretty funny.
I was in a band with a male lead singer who tried to be Roger Daltrey with the microphone. He usually pulled it off, but one night he swung that thing as fast and high as he could, like he was calf roping, and upon re-entry he missed and it hit him so hard in the head he was visibly stunned for a few seconds and got a nice knot out of it. That was pretty funny.
Got zapped from my mic once when I was about to sing a harmony. Whited out and almost fell over. Started cold sweating immediately. Walked over to the drum riser and sat down so I could finish the song and not pass out
I once had my bottom lip go numb in a grounding incident involving my microphone... had to sing my way through the set. Hardcore.
Oh yeah, I know a guy who got one of those straps where you can spin the bass in front of you like ZZ Top. Smacked himself in the side of the head with the bass--knocked him right out.
I wasn't the one injured but I caused the "injury"
I was playing guitar at the time and our bass player got us long curly locks caught up in my tuning pegs unknown to me?
Well, as I jamming and moving the guitar neck back and fourth and really jamming I was ripping out his hair!
I had a huge clump of his hair tangled up on and in my headstock!
I was playing guitar at the time and our bass player got us long curly locks caught up in my tuning pegs unknown to me?
Well, as I jamming and moving the guitar neck back and fourth and really jamming I was ripping out his hair!
I had a huge clump of his hair tangled up on and in my headstock!
A light gel holder thingie fell ftom a truss and opened up deep scalp cut on the left side above the ear. Hurt - and bled - like hell but we finished out the song. Patched it up but because I was occasionally looking to my right to check the drummer's kick the audience got a good look at the growing horror show.
Got a few stiches later, no biggie.
Got a few stiches later, no biggie.
Hi,
Back in my wilder days I would hurt myself on stage quite often, mostly with a bottle, this one...
But never again. It ain't worth it.
Thank you for your indulgence,
BassCliff
Back in my wilder days I would hurt myself on stage quite often, mostly with a bottle, this one...
But never again. It ain't worth it.
Thank you for your indulgence,
BassCliff
I have sprained both my ankles at gigs. First time was the first night of a five night run. Finished the night and did the next four on a barstool!I was in a....uh...."joke core" band about 13 or so years ago. All six of us were drunk as skunks. One of the guitarists was especially drunk; he punched me (and then dumped a full pitcher of beer on my bass rig). It left a red mark on my forehead, but it broke his wrist.
Oooo! Almost forgot…the singer in my band I mentioned who put one leg through the floor of the bandstand also caught the headstock of one of the guitars with the base of his mic stand doing a Steven Tyler spin move. Snapped a few tuning keys clean off one side of an SG's headstock.
Fortunately he didn't connect with the head of that guitar itself or it would have been bye-bye SG.
I'm also guessing his own head would have followed the tuning keys across the room if that had happened.
Fortunately he didn't connect with the head of that guitar itself or it would have been bye-bye SG.
I'm also guessing his own head would have followed the tuning keys across the room if that had happened.
I got a flag twirled into the bell of my trumpet in marching band in HS. Chipped a tooth. The flag squad girl who did it ended up being one of my best friends...
