Its only a Squier, if it had happened to my MTD 535 I would be doing 12 to 15 years for murder and enjoying the time.
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The Worst Thing that's ever happened...
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I had a beautiful 1983 G&L L2000E I bought brand new. Trans blue finish maple fretboard. We played an outside gig in the middle of summer, and after loading everyting in the equipment truck, we decided to watch the other bands before going home. When we had practice a couple of days later, I opened the case and the brown material inside had "melted" to the bass..ruined the finish. I never gave a damn about a guitar again after that...just play the hell out of em.
I was lifting my Modulus Q6 off of a bass stand that holds 2 basses. The strap on the Q6 caught the support posts where the back of the body rests and flipped the stand over, causing my.... 
Yamaha RBX760 (
) to hit the edge of my desk, and then the floor! No serious damage was done, just a little ding and scratch. Luckily I had the Yamaha hanging there and not my Quantum 5! I learned a valuable lesson though...
Yamaha RBX760 () to hit the edge of my desk, and then the floor! No serious damage was done, just a little ding and scratch. Luckily I had the Yamaha hanging there and not my Quantum 5! I learned a valuable lesson though...
BurningSkies
CRAZY BALDHEAD
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not bass related, but last show i was at...my band was wrapping up all of our gear & loading out while i was taking care of our merch. after everything was wrapped up & taken care of i asked my drummer if he made sure he got all my cables & stuff. he said he was sure.
needless to say, at practice today, i'm out $100 worth of monster cables. i was NOT happy at practice today.
Don't you mean that your drummer is out $100 bucks of cables?
Seems like the Yamaha RBX series has bad luck in this thread. 
My band played an entire summer's worth of children's camps (Lifeway's Centrikid). Unfortunately, the only way of transporting anything was a large Budget Truck. So after all luggage, camp equipment, sound, everything was loaded, we would then put in the instruments. Mine was in a secure place on top of everything. Apparently, between the 8 hour drive, constant road bumpage, and immense heat, the scarf joint on my bass snapped.
I pulled the bass out to play and it sounded really muffled. I thought it was the eq on the preamp, so I turned around to adjust but then felt the sharp wood from the crack. You could see straight to the truss rod.
My band played an entire summer's worth of children's camps (Lifeway's Centrikid). Unfortunately, the only way of transporting anything was a large Budget Truck. So after all luggage, camp equipment, sound, everything was loaded, we would then put in the instruments. Mine was in a secure place on top of everything. Apparently, between the 8 hour drive, constant road bumpage, and immense heat, the scarf joint on my bass snapped.
I pulled the bass out to play and it sounded really muffled. I thought it was the eq on the preamp, so I turned around to adjust but then felt the sharp wood from the crack. You could see straight to the truss rod.
bad gig, temper flared, threw/smashed my P into the drums. took a nice couple of nicks out of the neck, that i ended up filing down. it plays fine, barely noticeable.
it was the only time i've acted out in anger at a show (due to my bandmates being colossal drunk d-bags on stage), and i regret it since i came out looking stupider than either one of them, with a dinged-up bass to answer for it.
it was the only time i've acted out in anger at a show (due to my bandmates being colossal drunk d-bags on stage), and i regret it since i came out looking stupider than either one of them, with a dinged-up bass to answer for it.
nothing bad happened to me but my brother ( a guitar player) had his new strat highway one stolen
we were staying at his friend who plays basses house
we woke up to find the bass on the floor strings down and a note on the guitar case next to an open window
"i would of taken the bigger guitar or both but it was too heavy"
my brother had had a brass plate put on the strat with his name on it, a few days later at a pawn shop we saw the thief pawning the guitar, so my brother picked up a signed golf club and put the guy in hospital! now the guy has a lazy eye and my brother has a record!
guitarists ¬¬
we were staying at his friend who plays basses house
we woke up to find the bass on the floor strings down and a note on the guitar case next to an open window
"i would of taken the bigger guitar or both but it was too heavy"
my brother had had a brass plate put on the strat with his name on it, a few days later at a pawn shop we saw the thief pawning the guitar, so my brother picked up a signed golf club and put the guy in hospital! now the guy has a lazy eye and my brother has a record!
guitarists ¬¬
When I fly with instruments, I always- always- carry it on board, or have it checked at the gate. It means it only leaves my sight for the duration of the flight at worst (and otherwise I just bring it on board and put it in a coat closet), and it gets minimal handling in the meantime. Ever since I started doing that I've had absolutely zero problems.
I highly recommend this approach.
I highly recommend this approach.
I once drove over my 72 jazz with my car. I had placed it on the passenger side of the car and forgot about it. There where a tiretrack right across the gigbag. Luckily I drove over the body so amazingly enough nothing happened to the bass, except for a small dent on the back of the upper horn
Talk about good luck!!
Talk about good luck!!
Well, it wasn't really that big of a deal because I had another bass, but when I saw it in two peices, I just went berserk. I knew if i had stayed, one of us would have gone to the E.R., but I had left. I returned the next day, and he said it had fallen over. I don't believe this, though, because i've DROPPED my Yamaha a couple of feet and nothing happened.
BurningSkies
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Back in the very early 90's I played an Ibanez Roadstar II...one night it was well below zero outside, and after a cold gig ride to NYC we found ourselves on stage only moments after getting out of the car...under stage lights that had been running all night.
I shattered the finish on my bass within minutes. All over the whole bass body...
I shattered the finish on my bass within minutes. All over the whole bass body...
Thankfully nothing serious has ever happened to my basses, although when I was a kid I was quite fond of my Grant SG copy bass. My brother left it propped up against the window and I think the wind blew too hard. When I returned home, the headstock was completely snapped off. At the time I wasn't too bothered because my main instruments were drums and guitar.
This thread reminded me of my cousin's guitar. He had a lovely old Hondo II guitar (one of the better quality Hondo's) and his little bro scratched the hell out of the front with a screwdriver. Guys, don't ever let kids see you working on your instruments with screwdrivers! They seem to think they can do the same when you're not at home. The front was totally ruined on this particular guitar.
This thread reminded me of my cousin's guitar. He had a lovely old Hondo II guitar (one of the better quality Hondo's) and his little bro scratched the hell out of the front with a screwdriver. Guys, don't ever let kids see you working on your instruments with screwdrivers! They seem to think they can do the same when you're not at home. The front was totally ruined on this particular guitar.
I have come close to that a couple times. My practice room has a ceiling fan and I always seem to put on my bass standing up close to the fan.
I've been pretty lucky so far. Just a few normal dings. I really need to buy more straps, though, and get straplocks on all of my basses.
(Sorry.)
Noooooo! That's just awful.Had my custom Wal 5 string (picked out the wood blanks in the shop at High Wycombe) stolen at LaGuardia Airport in NYC. The air line only replaced it at "luggage value" by weight.
Broke my heart
Otter.
Hey, just like a real Gibson!
(Sorry.)
I had a 1965 leftie Hofner Beatle bass stolen from my car in 1970. Paid $85 for it a year earlier. Other than that, I've been remarkably fortunate -- no drops, kicks, thefts, etc.
Just last night, my jazz band was playing kris berg's version of the chicken. At the last note the band plays in unison before the bass solo, my A string broke. I was and am still pissed off.
Left my 5er in the capable (and I thought trustworthy) hands of a bassist a couple of years older than me at school. Came back to find it with the strings slacked off to nothing and a nice set of dings all over the back (thank god it was the back). Never found out what happened, but my bass only went to school in a locked hardcase after that.
I've dropped my other bass so many times that I've lost count. Most times it's been pretty lucky; it was caught by a pile of leads, or just gracefully swooped down without much impact (wahey for carpetted floors). The worst 2 I remember was when I was in a mad rush, the gig bag somehow fell out of my hand and onto concrete. (gig bag fibres embedded into the finish!) and the other was when it knocked the wing mirror off a (moving) Mercedes. It was the drivers fault, and the car came off a lot worse!
I've dropped my other bass so many times that I've lost count. Most times it's been pretty lucky; it was caught by a pile of leads, or just gracefully swooped down without much impact (wahey for carpetted floors). The worst 2 I remember was when I was in a mad rush, the gig bag somehow fell out of my hand and onto concrete. (gig bag fibres embedded into the finish!) and the other was when it knocked the wing mirror off a (moving) Mercedes. It was the drivers fault, and the car came off a lot worse!
