Apr’10 – Line 6 Wireless
Apr’10- The Give-Away :
Line 6 Relay G30 Wireless Guitar System
For April 2010, The Tone King has teamed up with Line 6, and will be giving away a brand new, Relay G30 Wireless.
Poll is closed
Winner : BigKyle
BigKyle was among the final 10, and within 24 hours (2 minutes to midnight 4/30 – 2 minutes to midnight 5/1), BigKyle was able to rake in the most amount of votes for the Worst Cabled Story. Scroll down below to view the poll, and BigKyle’s ‘worst cabled story’! Congratulations to Big Kyle from The Tone King, TheToneKing.com & Line 6! ROCK ON!
Who can enter?
Anyone!
How can I enter to win?
It’s simple. Enter your comment below (on TheToneKing.com website), or visit this YouTube Video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I64Y4U2P-IU), and tell us your WORST CABLED STORY!!! Tell us why you need a wireless unit! Simple right?Yeah, we thought so too!
How will a winner be selected?
Line 6 will pick some comments, The Tone King will pick some comments, and then on the next live webcast (Friday April 30th), YOU, the viewer will be able to vote for your favorite. This way, we all get to have some say in who the winner will be !!
When will the winner be announced?
The polls will open up (on this page) during TTK’s Live Webcast the last Friday of each month. For the Line 6 Relay G30 Wireless Guitar System, this date will be : Friday April 30th at 2 minutes to midnight EDT. You then have 24 hours to select (vote) for the winner. Polls will close down at 2 minutes to midnight (24 hours from open) EDT, May 1st, 2010, and the winner will be posted to this very page on TheToneKing.com.
Vote NOW for the best, 'worst cabled story'! Make sure to read their full stories below before voting!!!
- BigKyle (32%, 22 Votes)
- GuitarBrotha (21%, 14 Votes)
- Paulster14 (16%, 11 Votes)
- hanoverphist (9%, 6 Votes)
- George (9%, 6 Votes)
- Michael Pham (4%, 3 Votes)
- paddan91 (3%, 2 Votes)
- NicoADTRkusumah (3%, 2 Votes)
- Giovanni (1%, 1 Votes)
- J MICHAEL COZAD (2%, 1 Votes)
Total Voters: 68
Taken From YouTube :
GuitarBrotha Ok I was playing at a gig a local coffee shop in my town. We were playing one by Metalica and we were at the part of the song where the solo is and I start playing the solo i ran up to the front of the stage (little did i know my 20 foot cable wrapped around my ankle) when i hit the tip of the stage my cable tripped me off the front of the stage landing on a coffee table head first breaking my guitar and tipped over my amp head! Luckily my amp head was ok but all the tubes broke. Cables BLOW!!!
hanoverphist My story took place a good while back when I was in high school. My band was competing in a battle of the bands competition. We were doing great until we got to my big guitar solo in our final song. The lead singer said “Take it Mike” and gestured towards me with a David Lee Roth’ish flailing-scissor kick move. I did a power slide into center stage, the spotlight fell on me and then….no guitar. The lead singer had unknowingly unplugged me from my amp with his big kick. It was an epic fail!
NicoADTRkusumah i was playing guitar in my bedroom and i could smell burning. I realised that my girlfriend had left her hair straighteners on and my cable was heating up and was melting on them. As a result, the tape i had around the end of my cable had caught fire and then my speaker cab started to catch fire. I had to switch the mains electricity off and use a fire extinguisher.. it was nothing short of a close call.Word of advise.. make sure you use the best quality electrical tape!!
paddan91 Well, maybe not the worst story, but I went to my local music store and wanted to buy a somewhat decent cable, so I bought a monster cable, expensive as hell, and got home and started to play, it sounded great and all. I took a break and then played some more. Anyway, my little sister stepped into my room with her bunny, Tufsi. And let it go free on the floor, and suddenly everything went completely quiet, and Tufsi ate my new cable up 
Taken from TTK Website :
BigKyle says: My worst cable story is extremely personal, and extremely emberassing. Last year i was playing a huge battle of the bands at a very famous local venue in my hometown. My band was playing for a crowd of at least 300 or 400 people, and it was our biggest show to date. So we go on stage and get all our equipment set up on stage and prepare to play our hearts out. At the time i had a nice 20 or so foot cable that gave me a lot of room to move around. Not 30 seconds into our 3rd song, i step on my bass cable, trip my self and fall face first onto the stage moniter. At this point in time i now have a busted cable, the input jack actually broke off inside my bass, and extremely out of tune bass, which is essentially usless due to the fact my cable was broken, and a bloody, busted lip. So we stopped the song and luckily, another band that was playin that night was kind enough to lend me his bass, which was a $80 piece of junk, and his 10 foot cable. So for our last 3 songs of our biggest show, i had to stand in back of everyone playing a piece of junk bass, a busted lip, and the knowledge that everyone was either laughing at me or felt sorry for me. So what started out being our best show yet quickly turned into our worst, and one of the worst days of my life.
George says: My story is somewhat of an embarrassment. It started when i was 15, I was Heavily into ACDC. Loved anything angus young related. We’ll for that christmas, I woke up to an SG, I was bursting with excitement to say the least. I had also received a 45* cable to go with it, cable died. So i kept using my Fender california cables. It was approx a month after that, I had a heap of friends around. I was playing ACDC, It was just a good time. I had attempted a duck walk before that, so i thought, this will get them laughing. I started duck walking( anyone that doesn’t know, a duck walk is what angus young and Chuck Berry done on stage frequently, kicking one leg out whilst walking) WE’LL….. Everyone started laughing, Like i suspected. But my leg became entangled with my lead…I started to fall over, i Pulled my leg back CRUNCH! I fell over. I was fine but i looked at my New SG, I had pulled the Input jack straight out of the guitar, along with majority of the wood over the cavity where the pots are located. I sat there looking at my SG in Shock for about 5mins, I was just in such disbelief… This guitar was my Pride and Joy, This was my most prized possession. After my friends had left, i realized my parents were going to be home soon, how was i going to hide this from them??? I took the guitar into the garage, pushed all the splintering wood together, and put a piece of MDF underneath the input jack, I finally got it stabilized, so it wouldn’t just fall out when i stood it up . The garage door started opening just as i had finished, i grabbed the guitar ran back through the door into the house just before my parents had seen me. i put the Guitar back in its stand and acted like nothing had happened… It was about 3 days after that my Dad was looking at it and was saying to me, it just doesn’t look quite right, he picked it up and said, there was heaps of little hairline cracks showing through the lacquer. He started probing it, I was feeling sick in my stomach by then. He kept going until one piece of the splintered wood fell out, He saw the MDF underneath, Looked at me, looked back at the guitar, and asked what had happened? I told him. He was looked perturbed, but he realized how much i loved this guitar, and said “well you wont be trying anything like that anytime soon?” i nodded my head. then i said to him jokingly, We’ll if i had a wireless system like angus, this wouldn’t of happened? we both laughed
Giovanni says: I was playing a gig with my former band. I ‘m not the kind of guy standing on the side of the stage just playing in the limelights. Oh no, I bounce around, climb on speakers, monitors and everything around me that’s climable. No need to say, that’s almost impossible when using a cable. I used to have a wireless system form sennheiser. But it died on me a week befor this gig. Well in the middle of the gig I decided to climb on a small ledge behind the drummer. Figuring my cable was long enough and it was! But it curled up the moment I ‘hovered’ above my drummer. The stage was pretty small and the drummer was real close to the edge on the back of the stage. As I said; my cable curled up and became a noose around the drummers neck so I pulled him backwardsa of the stage, I tumbled on top of him and as you might guess, my amp followed. It was a mess, We managed to finish the show after this, but my amp needed repair, the drummers seat was destroyed, he hurt his back and I found out later that I probably dislocated my shoulder but it popped back emmidiatly… All these things ended up getting repared or healed, but the relationship between the drummer and me did need a little more time No need to point out that I realy need a new wireless system…
J MICHAEL COZAD says: I was singing and playing and had a hole in my shoe. Someone spilled a beer right in front of the mic stand. Simultaneously I grabbed my guitar and touched my lip to the mic and got “SHOOOOOCKED!!” I through my head back and felt my lip. It wouldn’t quit movin’! Just kept going up and down on its own. Quivering on steriods explains it best. I looked at everyone and as they said “are you alright?” they started laughing at me! I said I can’t stop it! It’s doing it on it’s own! They busted out and the drummer bent over and fell against the wall, the other guitar player bent over and put his hands on his knees and his guitar hanging off his kneck, the bass player points and says “look at that look at it!” “never seen anything like that WOW! I’m wondering if it’s permanent about now! The lead singer says “Did the mic do that? Was it the mic? and he put his down. Everyone else –laughing and some concerned. Anyway it did stop after a few minutes. And I always have good shoes , and check the floor!
Michael Pham says: So I was performing at a school talent show for pro grad. I have been using 2 20′ Live Wire cables connected with a 1/4″ to 1/4″ adapter connected to a Vox Valvetronix AD50VT. It sat at the back of the stage due to the high volume and I mic’d it with an SM Beta 57. Earlier, a band that performed before me borrowed one of my cables and as the stage hand returned it, they knocked over my guitar putting it out of tune. I was playing a Chevelle song in Drop B, so it was incredibly hard to tune last minute (I usually use Guitar Rig for tuning). I was time for me to play. Not only did I play out of tune, the patched dual cord was caught under the tool box I had on stage (yeah, I’m a Pete Loeffler fan). This made me immobile and I almost tripped (i turned around twice to untangle myself). I did not move much for the rest of the performance, only some occasional head-banging. Even while I performed my solo, there was little movement. The judge’s faces went from pure enjoyment to almost falling asleep. Needless to say, That cost me the talent show prize scholarship. One of the judges came up to me after the performance and told me “That performance of yours was amazing, but there should have been consistent movement and energy throughout. You kinda died down towards the end there.” I was going to defend myself, but why should I when it is already over. It is not going to change the results. I came home knowing that the performance did not go as planned and I should have won the prize money.
Paulster14 says: Back in 1990 was opening for Spread Eagle at the Birch hill night club. Was so excited brought my full rig which included my full stack. Started our set and in middle of first song all sound from my guitar goes blank. This started one of those famous bass drum jams. I figured to replace the cord first, well I forgot my back up cord and all I had was a three foot plug. I had to had to face directly at the amp do to the shortness of the cord and height of stack. I played 7 songs that way and could not hear the band at all. So the crowd got a great view of my back and I never knew if I was playing in time to the beat. Good times!
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As always, GOOD LUCK & ROCK ON,
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I’ve never tried running wireless, just because i hate batteries, and nothing is as reliable as good ol’ wire. But this could be promising!
cool move of the year…..hot chickie in front of stage left…me on stage right. Time for my coolest solo of the nite and i’m gonna play it for her. I do a cool run over to stage left but do I make it?? NOOOOOO…singer jumps off drum riser and lands on my cable and I’m pulled backwards and down.
Now I did kill the solo from on my back but chickie wasn’t there when I got up………………
During a quiet time at my church, I had a dying cable go bad. It started humming crazy loud. I had to throw my amp on standby, some stage guys were running around looking for another cable. We got it switched out and everything was ok. It just had to happen during a quiet time though.
My cable story: I am the lead guitarist in my band and am very active. One night I was running around and tripped over the cable. As I tripped over the cable it wrapped around my neck and I was struggling on stage. As I get up and untangle myself the audience applauded me and it was one of the only times the crowd actually cheered for us so far. Later that night as I was getting back into it and as I just forgot what had just happened to me I tripped over my cable again, only this time breaking off the headstock of my Gibson SG that was one of my favorite guitars, but I eventually sold the guitar. So back to the show, I got out my back up guitar and finished the show and everybody loved it and thought that I had smashed my beautiful guitar on purpose, although I smashed up my guitar, it got the crowd into it and they loved it!
So I was playing rhythm guitar for a Rockabilly band in San Luis Obispo, we were rocking that night, the audience was pumped and feeling good! Well, as anyone knows, when the audience is pumped, the band gets excited too. The drummer was going off on a bitchin’ solo when he hits his crash cymbal and knocks it over towards the front of the stage on my side, the cymbal comes down edge first right on my cable and slices it into two. I’m suppose to come back in from this crescendo of the drummers with a big attack of riffing, but couldn’t do it because of the obvious problem. The audience saw what happened and was laughing, so we stopped really quick, made a joke about it, I got a back up cord, then we did our thing again, and the audience loved it! They liked how we played it off and kept the show going with a little comedy in there and then re-rocked them!
I was strumming some kenny chesney and all of a suden my cable had be upside down lookin like a frog doing some jumpin jacks.
I remember one time playing a show where I had a long guitar cable going offstage to my amp. I was jumping around like a lunatic trying to show off and right as I went for the biggest solo of the night, *bam* I step on the guitar cable, the guitar comes off the strap and hits the floor.
**BOOOOOIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGG* <– that was the most of my solo that night.
I am so happy to hear that these are out there. Line 6 makes such quality products that this is a must have!
Can’t wait to get mine!
Ed
My worse cable story? That’s easy: I have a custom SG that was a guitar I built myself. When it was finished, the guitar was beautiful & I loved it. Sometimes I would slip my cable under the strap to keep it out of the way, but one night at band practice the cable pushed the strap off the strap holder, and my beloved SG went crashing to the floor. It landed square on a tuner, destroying it. I replaced the damaged tuner, but unfortunately, the guitar has never been quite the same ever since.
during a live performance of freebird,i had 3 chords sodered together and when i lead into the crowd at the lead brak in mid air one of the soder joints came apart and ended my solo quick like.to far up to jump back dern it
No Story here but we all know how much a wireless unit makes for freedom of movement and fewer accidents and embarrassing situations.
My worse cabled story by far had to do involved gorilla-sized mentally-retarded man, the most annoying kid anyone will ever meet, my first multi-effects pedal ever, and me.
No kidding.
My band was at practice, things had gone pretty smoothly, with the exception of Brandon’s presence. He was by far the most annoying person I had ever met, but he was a great singer and did well on stage-thus the reason he was there.
Brandon was flinchy that night, flinchy enough that when our mentally-retarded friend, Scott, sneaked up on Brandon, all hell broke loose.
Brandon jumped higher than a “jack rabbit on fire,” and begin running. Towards me. And my pedal board.
Before I could even react, he had tripped over my cable, spun around, caught his foot in the power adapter, and in one single pull, had ripped both out from whence they came. The cable was destroyed, the input for the pedal and the output for my guitar were damaged, nearly beyond repair, and the port for the power adapter was broken. At the time I was only 15, and that $150 I had spent on that Zoom pedal was another $150 I didn’t have just laying around.
Needless to say, we didn’t let Scott come back, and almost didn’t let Brandon come back, but we had some mercy. Barely.
To this day, I have had several other experiences with cables, including one instance where I tripped over my own cable and ripped my guitar right off of its strap. Fun stuff, fun stuff…
hello,
there was a contest at my school.
the price was 2 days recording time in a pro studio!
so i was there with my band and i went verry well.
i stared to play “Nothing Else Matters” and my cable fell out, but the crowd was so loud that i didnt notice that i was playing guitar without a cable.
pretty dumb but o.k.
greetz from the Netherlands (:
I was playing my very first preprofessional gig with old cables I had since the beginning of time. During the second tune of our set list, my cable starts to make crackling sounds out of my amp and my guitar cut out! No sound what so ever, and am the only rhythm/lead guitar player in a blues trio. Total ashamed, I find my back up cables and continue. Please Help.
Eric J
my darn cat plays with my cable when i practice at home and jumps on it pulling on my amp cord in both directions. i need to go wireless so i can fry it’s brain with my sound.
it’s all about freedome baby . . . the freedom to be free . . . the freedom to express . . . the freedom to walk, jump, and twist and shout . . . freedom that’s what it’s about . . . tone king and line 6
I was playing an outdoor event at a beach on an old boat launch which had uneven boards. It was a good size area which was great because there was room to move around for once, when I went too far towards the front of the stage. I swung to my left during my guitar solo and yanked my chord so hard it tipped over my old Randall amp (gotta love those Ibanez input jacks – strong as h@ll). When the amp fell forward, it snapped off the end of the cable in the input jack and knocked over the mic, which fell through the slats and onto wet sand. The jack was damaged so I had to use the low gain jack the rest of the show. Worst was people split for the beer truck and only the family and friends stuck around for the rest of the show(we were the opening act), obviously writing us off as a bunch of hacks. Wireless please!
I generally play with a 20 ft cable never wanting to run out of room. One of the guys in my band was trying to make the cables neat, but it ended up that mine was wrapped around one leg of my mic stand. Needless to say, I felt that my cable was stuck on something while we were playing and gave it a yank. Down came the mic stand, just missing the top of my Taylor. Would have been nasty. Got to get wireless. No more tangles!
I was playing my first outdoor, backyard party in ’84. We had just played Panama and I was thrilled to have pulled it off. I was playing with a ’70′s made coiled guitar cable direct into a Marshall – probably 18ft stretched out – much shorter in its relaxed state. When I was introduced, I shot forward toward the crowd pounding out an open E chord. My cable unplugged from the amp and went shooting past me like a contracting slinky; hit a chick in the face right below her eye. Massive ego killer to say the least!
Hey I got all wrapped up with my lead guitar player…it was a huge mess.
R
I have lost 2 dogs in tragic cable accidents. It was too horrible to even think about. I am still grieving.
What made me start looking into the wireless system was actually a sugestion by someone else after being up on stage, and jumping off the drummers stand, taking his crash with me (cause of the cable) and then tripping when I landed (not over the cable) and then taking out my bass player John (because of the cable). What a mess. This happened last summer, and I’ve been trying to afford the wireless system ever sense.
Do I need a reason? I’ve been cabled all my life and playing since 1965. I’d like to try cable-free; free, since I don’t have a ‘good’ reason to buy anymore. I’ll leave it at church for the poor musicians to use.
During sound check I thought we might have a slight problem with one of the grounds on our equipment. I was getting a slight shock every time I sang through my mic. At the time we thought it was our PA that was the culprit, so we checked all its connections with no resolve. As the night progressed the shock intensified. It went from a subtle shock on my lips, much like licking a 9 volt battery, to an all out 110 volt blast that made strumming the guitar terrifying. After the show ended the lights went up to reveal a pool of beer, spilled by one of the waitresses, that my chord had been draped through. After that night it became the consensus of the band that no more liquids were to be consumed while on stage especially a darkly lit stage such as that night.
The crowd was amped, the band was tight, the monitor system sucked. As I was visiting the other side of the stage my solo came up. I wrap my cable around my strap, so as i stood on my own cable and unplugged it from the face of the amp, I continued to “play” air-guitar while looking around oblivious as to why I cant be heard. Help me…
Hey there,
I was playing with another wireless system when for no reason it decided to amp up the volume and about blew our P.A. system to smithereens. Since then I have gone back to a cord and feel like a poor dog on a leash.
I’m poor. Free stuff is good.
I havn’t played in a rock band in quite a few years. Have my own project studio now and my budget is a little tight.
Since I play guitar and run all the recording equipment a wireless rig would avoid the reoccuring nightmare of tangling someone or something in my cord as I race back and forth to the desk.
My cords are always tangled and one point my little 6 year old brother came in, got his foot caught on the cords, and went face first and broke two of his teeth. They layed flat against the wall of his upper mouth and blood was everywhere. Thats why I need the G30 wireless Guitar
Well, im not a pro guitar player i just play in a church, i bought 20 meters of cable because the mixer was to far from the spot where i play, so, 20meters its a very very long amount of cable, well, it cost a lot too, so what have happen me its that i forgot the cable in a place where my church band played, so i lost that very long/expensive cable
Here follows the most embarrassing moment of my musical career, which so happens to be directly related to a cable. So, my band had a gig at a large, outdoor venue in Maryland. We had a larger stage than we were used to playing, so we had our amps a little more spread out than they were normally. About half way through the first song, I moved my way across the stage, until I noticed that my cable was no longer resting on the ground, but was suspended between my amp and my bass. Just at that moment, our singer was walking the opposite direction, singing and looking skywards. Within an instant, he had tripped over the cable, fell on the ground, with the wireless microphone flying across the stage. His fall yanked the wire so hard that it broke the input jack of my amp, which began emitting very loud and unpleasant noises, and nearly pulled me off my feet. That prematurely ended our set, and ultimately caused the breakup of the band.
I just need the wireless for my bass.
Sometimes when im rockin’ out on my electric with effects peddles and such, I get swallowed by a Madusa of patch cords weaving in and out between my legs coming unplugged. This cannot continue, for I have never had the pleasures of wireless metal, I can picture it now…..
I was playing acoustic at my church. Towards the end of the first set my guitar started buzzing and going in and out. I figured out it was the cable, and hopped in my car to run home and get another one before the second set. As I pulled up to the first intersection, I found out that the brakes on my car were almost completely gone. I used the E-brake and made it back to church, but never made it to get another cable. Wouldn’t have happened had I had this thing!
So far, I have not had a terrible accident, but I do hate being tethered to a cable while my lead guitarist gets to wander around lookin cool. So yeah…a wireless would be great, even just to be able to walk circles around him and smile as I do it…
Tripping over my cable, being pulled down into a drum set….. not fun and my drummer hated me for it!
I don’t really have anything embarrassing that’s happened while onstage, because I play mostly jazz and blues, so not very much jumping around stages. I really think this would revolutionize my rig though, it would be great to finally go wireless without any consequences to the sound I’ve been crafting for so long.
im in a band here in my small town and we do our fare share of shows every week. nothing big now but we are still known and play all the time. i play lead guitar and happen to be a VERY active person when it comes to playing. i just cant stay still. and i think im the one person that ends up having to buy new cable every couple of weeks… its sad really. i just end up doing to much on stage and getting my cables wrapped up in shit on the stage and BAM! end up ripping the cable out of the guitar and even a couple times actually ripping the plug piece off the cable completely. which really takes away from the show when you have to stop for 3 minutes and hook back up. so having the wireless would really make sure the fans get what they come for
. let alone the making sure i dont get that buzz kill when i get unplugged… never a ego booster :/.
I was singing and playing and had a hole in my shoe. Someone spilled a beer right in front of the mic stand. Simultaneously I grabbed my guitar and touched my lip to the mic and got “SHOOOOOCKED!!” I through my head back and felt my lip. It wouldn’t quit movin’! Just kept going up and down on its own. Quivering on steriods explains it best. I looked at everyone and as they said “are you alright?” they started laughing at me! I said I can’t stop it! It’s doing it on it’s own! They busted out and the drummer bent over and fell against the wall, the other guitar player bent over and put his hands on his knees and his guitar hanging off his kneck, the bass player points and says “look at that look at it!” “never seen anything like that WOW! I’m wondering if it’s permanent about now! The lead singer says “Did the mic do that? Was it the mic? and he put his down. Everyone else –laughing and some concerned. Anyway it did stop after a few minutes. And I always have good shoes , and check the floor!
My dog loves to hear me play. Problem is he also likes to bite the cable and tear down the stack.
My very first show ever, I was really really nervous as it is, I had to use a friends equipment which was significantly nicer than mine. He had a halfstack and I just had a practice amp so I was excited to be playing out of something professional. We finally got everything setup, everyone was staring at us waiting for us to start, everyone else in the band is ready. I try to play but no sound comes out. We tinkered around with the amp trying to look like I knew what I was doing at the time but I did not. My friend who let me borrow the guitar equipment was also looking at it. After switching cables around and borrowing cables from other bands and being even more embarassed it was determined that we just had bad cables and although it was a small problem in the grand scheme of things, it feels a little different when a crowd of people are staring at you waiting for you to start/get done with your set so the band they came to see can play. It was definitely a very nerve-wracking nightmare/experience for a first show ever.
I had a cable that a drunk friend tripped on and there goes my whole rig toward the floor(Marshall JCM800, effects rack, Jcm 800 2×12 cabinet)! Luckily I caught it in time to level it out, but I lost about 5 years in age from the thought of it hitting the ground. LOL
I was injured in Iraq, and my mobility and dexterity are very limited. I am trying to continue playing guitar with my injuries, however playing with a wired guitar makes my mobility even more limited. I have found even pluggin in can be difficult.
I was in a Thanksgiving Day Parade and ended up on the float because we didn’t have enough wireless for all the guitars to walk along side and among crowd. We had a sudden stop and I went flying. All the wireless people just laughed at me.
I have not found a cable that my son can not tie in knots when in use in less than 5 minutes. Let him plug in and within 5 minutes you will have a mess that you will spend the next 10 minutes figuring out how it got this way. So I am tired of fixing my cable after his abuse so my solution is to win the wireless for him and keep the cables for myself.
To make a story short, I was happily playing a show with my Ibanez and the next thing I remember I was walking out of an ER clinic. What happened? Well I was deliberately electrocuted by my own guitar thanks to a torn cable, bad grounding, and a broken glass of water. No more comments!
Had an extra long patch cable so I could walk around stage. I ended up tripping on the cable and almost falling off stage.
the tone king rocks!!!
My bad “cabled” story comes from a show that my band was playing at a local band showcase. There was a song (the first song in our set no less!) in which I had a solo. We were playing clean for the whole song except for me in the solo section. At the time I had only one distortion pedal and that was the one thing that I needed to step on in the song. Unfortunately, when my solo came up I stepped on the cable instead of the pedal. The cable was yanked right out of the pedal and my guitar cut completely out. For a few seconds I kept playing as if everything was ok, but I quickly realized that no sound was coming out of my amp. I had to drop to my knees, plug my cable back in, hit the pedal, and then finally continue my solo as if I hadn’t just unplugged my guitar. Embarrassing! We played a pretty great show overall, but I felt like I let my whole band down by screwing up so bad.
I was playing lead guitar in my old band and it was our first semi-large show at the Troc in Philadelphia,PA and we really never played anything bigger then a high school or church type setting so I was nervous to boot. Everything was running smooth we got threw our first song which loosened me up. About two minutes into or second I was movin and entertaining the crowd. Now this was the first time I ever played with the lights dimmed and strobe lights. I didn’t realize it but I had gotten my leg caught in my cables and the next thing I knew I was falling off stage. I cracked the neck of my Razorback that I bought not two days earlier and I fractured my ankle and wrist. I ruined the rest of the set for our band since the rhythm guy couldn’t do it alone. I can never play on stage with chords again it was hard enough to live that down once I refuse to do it again.
I was singing and playing bass for my band a couple years back. My guitar player was quite active on stage running around while I was singing (pretty much tied down to the microphone). During one of the instrumentals I decided to seize the opportunity and I took off running to the opposite side of the stage when WHAM!…I was stopped dead in my tracks…my feet flew out from underneath me…and I landed on my butt
Not only did it hurt physically but that one moment was the most embarrassing moment of my life. My guitar player ended up stepping on my cable…shortening the slack just enough to crush my ego! To make matters worse…he was using his wireless gear.