New Guy with a horror story

[Werdna]

Hey everyone i'm new here, just got a used SR4 a few months ago from Guitar Center but just found this forum. I'd like to start off my time here with a little story from last weekend.

I was playing at battle of the bands (it was the Bogarts HSBC for any of you who live near cincinnati) and the guys who work it are compleate jerks. After i was done playing with my band we started the teardown and it was going well, we loaded the drums and my stack in the elevator to take it from the stage to the street out back. The way everything was put in the elevator was the drums on the right and my two cabs on the left not stacked on each other. My SR was on a stand just outside the elevator.

heres where it gets bad.

The guy loading the elevator picks up my bass and throws it on top of my cabs but it slides off the side and falls 2 1/2 feet down on to a metal floor hitting the headstock on the floor tom on its way down. I tried to see if it was ok but the guy slammed the elevator door shut and said "its fine they're made to be thrown around" when i went down the stairs to the bottem to unload, i pulled my baby out of the elevator and saw that there was 2 chips in the headstock from hitting the tom then the floor and a chip on the side from hitting the floor. I tried to go back up to see the guy who did it but the next band was already going on and we weren't allowed back up.

So now, though it still sounds the same, she will never be as beautiful as she once was.

 

[RitchieDarling]

Instant death, anyone?

Hey everyone i'm new here, just got a used SR4 a few months ago from Guitar Center but just found this forum. I'd like to start off my time here with a little story from last weekend.

I was playing at battle of the bands (it was the Bogarts HSBC for any of you who live near cincinnati) and the guys who work it are compleate jerks. After i was done playing with my band we started the teardown and it was going well, we loaded the drums and my stack in the elevator to take it from the stage to the street out back. The way everything was put in the elevator was the drums on the right and my two cabs on the left not stacked on each other. My SR was on a stand just outside the elevator.

heres where it gets bad.

The guy loading the elevator picks up my bass and throws it on top of my cabs but it slides off the side and falls 2 1/2 feet down on to a metal floor hitting the headstock on the floor tom on its way down. I tried to see if it was ok but the guy slammed the elevator door shut and said "its fine they're made to be thrown around" when i went down the stairs to the bottem to unload, i pulled my baby out of the elevator and saw that there was 2 chips in the headstock from hitting the tom then the floor and a chip on the side from hitting the floor. I tried to go back up to see the guy who did it but the next band was already going on and we weren't allowed back up.

So now, though it still sounds the same, she will never be as beautiful as she once was.

And you let him live? WOW!

Bogart's was way cooler in the early 1980's.......

But then again, so was I!

Well, not really....But I THOUGHT I was....

Welcome to the forum!

Ritchie

 

[Dr Stankface]

Welcome to the forum!!!

First off, that's a horrible story. Band playing or not, i'd be throwin that guy an ass beatin.

And you're a GK player as well. We'll get along just fine.

 

[Werdna]

and we have the same name. so were both SR players named andrew who use GK's and live in states that start with vowels (ohio).... wierd

 

[ExLurker]

Moral of story

"put bass in its case before teardown"

The guy who threw the bass should also have his head torn off.

 

[Dr Stankface]

and we have the same name. so were both SR players named andrew who use GK's and live in states that start with vowels (ohio).... wierd

Only difference, we don't play the same cabs. I play the Neos.

 

[RitchieDarling]

Only difference, we don't play the same cabs. I play the Neos.

Well, that tears it! You two can't be friends!

R

 

[Werdna]

ahh i almost got a neo 212 but went with the 410RBH instead and later added the 115RBH. I just couldnt find anywhere that i could play through a neo and didnt want to just buy blindly.

 

[rhythmCity944]

I learned to always pack up the guitars before anything else on stage...the first time my stingray was thrown to me off stage, i was in a panic...

 

[AnthonyD]

Sorry to hear - sounds like it could've been a lot worse. First dings are the most painful, after that they come easy.

Your story does make me glad I move my own gear, though...

Seriously - only time my bass is out in the open is during the set. Before, between and immediately after, it goes into it's case.

 

[Narcosynthesis]

I think I would have actually murder anyone who treated an instrument of mine like that! It sounds like you were lucky to come off with only a couple of chips really.

I guess all you can really do now is have a few words with the manager about how inconsiderate the staff are in damaging your personal instruments - worth a fair bit of money and not exactly a cheap beater...

The first ding is always the worst, soon it will just be a part of your bass and what makes it yours and the story behind it

David

 

[NoFrets80]

Hey everyone i'm new here, just got a used SR4 a few months ago from Guitar Center but just found this forum. I'd like to start off my time here with a little story from last weekend.

I was playing at battle of the bands (it was the Bogarts HSBC for any of you who live near cincinnati) and the guys who work it are compleate jerks. After i was done playing with my band we started the teardown and it was going well, we loaded the drums and my stack in the elevator to take it from the stage to the street out back. The way everything was put in the elevator was the drums on the right and my two cabs on the left not stacked on each other. My SR was on a stand just outside the elevator.

heres where it gets bad.

The guy loading the elevator picks up my bass and throws it on top of my cabs but it slides off the side and falls 2 1/2 feet down on to a metal floor hitting the headstock on the floor tom on its way down. I tried to see if it was ok but the guy slammed the elevator door shut and said "its fine they're made to be thrown around" when i went down the stairs to the bottem to unload, i pulled my baby out of the elevator and saw that there was 2 chips in the headstock from hitting the tom then the floor and a chip on the side from hitting the floor. I tried to go back up to see the guy who did it but the next band was already going on and we weren't allowed back up.

So now, though it still sounds the same, she will never be as beautiful as she once was.

Hmm... reminds me of the story I shared early last year about my drummer punting my bass across the floor in a fit of anger/frustration after tripping over the case by accident. I let him live... somehow.

Thank goodness for instrument insurance... a must if you play out professionally. Covers just those sorts of things. Unfortunately, no one could ever replace any of my SUBs if they got injured or destroyed... a new 'Ray would be in order.

 

[bovinehost]

I don't usually mean it when I say things like this, but this time I do.

That guy needed a punch in the throat.

 

[cdb]

I don't usually mean it when I say things like this, but this time I do.

That guy needed a punch in the throat.

+10000

"its fine they're made to be thrown around"

mention that as his teeth go a-flyin'

 

[AnthonyD]

Hysterical!

 

[Disquieter]

so was this a guy who worked for the venue, or a guy who was in the next band?


if it was a guy who worked in a venue, you should approach the manager regarding it, and get some compensation for the depreciation in value of your instrument caused by his employees incompetence.


and if nothing comes of that, smash his headlights with a framing hammer. and if he has one, take his hood ornament.

 

[Baird]

A shot to the head would likely suffice.

Not trying to sound like a tough guy, but the idiot showed a complete lack of respect for you and your bass by doing this.

Luckily MM basses are built like tanks! I have broken 2 Gibson guitar headstocks and the falls were much less than 2 feet!!!

BTW, I always handle my own instruments and they are in the case when I am not playing them. Not sure of the details of why yours was on a stand by the elevator, but it should have been safely tucked away!

 

[oddjob]

Have played at Bogarts on several occasions (in the 90's) and I love the stage, love the sound and HATE the asshats working there - each time I've played there I swear it will be the last time. I feel your pain, but unfortunatly that isn't the first time I've heard something like that.

 

[adouglas]

Too bad you couldn't have found out which car/truck was his. He could have come outside to find every single body panel bashed in and a note on the windshield...

"That's okay, these things are made to be banged up a little."

Gad, just reading that made me see red.

 

[bassmancb]

When I play I take my basses out myself and put them back myself. I also set up my own gear and tear it down. Just habit from all those years that I had to be musician/roadie.