Tenderly

[shoeline]

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]

could you not have sat down?

 

[shoeline]

no chair

 

[TheDarkReaver]

the floor?

 

[shoeline]

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

 

[sixway]

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]

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

 

[Smallmouth_Bass]

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]

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

 

[Wasp]

Us sax players prefer to play in the audience anyway