My poor StingRay 5

[TSanders]

Wednesday night my band played a gig at a church for a youth group.

I took my StingRay 5 and my 4 string. I prefer the 4 string for the first song in the set. So we started the first song and my SR5 was sitting on the stand, waiting calmly to show off.

About 4 measures into the first song, we had the system crankin. All the sudden I see people looking behind me with frightened eyes.

I look behind me and a HUGE, I mean HUGE (roughly 400 lbs) wooden cross on the stage is falling. It knocked my SR5 off the stand and then landed on it. I was freaking out, well internally, becuase I had to finish the song.

When I picked up my SR5 for the next song, I was incredibly relieved to find it with no damage at all. One minor scratch about 1/8 inch long buffed out when I got home.

Talk about a scare.

 

[Psycho Ward]

Even God loves the SR5, whatever you call that bass I’d add “Saint” as a prefix.



Glad it survived unharmed, luck may also have been involved, but I’m going with God.

 

[bovinehost]

Now I bet that doesn't happen too terribly often.

I mean, you're not likely to hear, "Yeah, that happened to me the other night, too."

 

[Dees]

It's probably protected by God (although I don't believe in God)
Anyway, your bass got lucky

 

[AnthonyD]

Glad to hear it was just a scare - hate for you to lose yet another bass in church!

 

[stingrayplayr83]

Travis, I think you should keep your sparkle SR5's away from churches. Who knows what will happen next?

 

[MingusBASS]

That must of been the longest 2-3 minutes of your life. Having to play the rest of the song before you get to check out the damage. Thank God(I do Believe ) there was no more than a scratch!

Andrew

 

[MingusBASS]

Travis, I think you should keep your sparkle SR5's away from churches. Who knows what will happen next?

Does anyone have a Burnt Apple Ray 5 they'd like to donate when something happens to the Autumn Burst?

Just joking Travis!

Andrew

 

[stingrayplayr83]

Does anyone have a Burnt Apple Ray 5 they'd like to donate when something happens to the Autumn Burst?

Or a gremlin green or glacier blue sparkle? Travis, you have to remember, they discontinued sparkles! No more disasters!

 

[cgworkman]

Maybe God feels you idolize your SR5 to much. Maybe He was warning you...

 

[tkarter]

I doubt God cares one way or the other about an SR5. What were you think prior to that happening?


JK. Glad everything is okay with your SR5.

I would blame the GK amp and the Stingray. Shaking things like that will make things like that happen.

Either that or the SR5 got to the "I will cling to the ol rugged cross" part and was plumb convincing.

tk

 

[cgworkman]

I doubt God cares one way or the other about an SR5.

Yes he does. It's a SR5 we're talking about afterall.

 

[phatduckk]

damn dude. well at least the bass is OK and its pretty awesome that the 400 LB cross didnt fall on a person! now its just a cool story instead of some "bad news"

 

[stingrayplayr83]

Is the cross ok?

 

[Dr Stankface]

I even gasped when I read that. I almost cried when a guy dropped a tuba on my upright bass. My upright wasn't as lucky as your SR5 though. Got a nice scratch in it. I'm HIGHLY protective of my SR5 so it doesn't have but one or 2 scratches. That's from me jammin' through my GK rig. SR5 + GK = Perfection.

Andrew

 

[JB1]

Glad it's OK man, but don't forget, scratches happen. Even holy ones.

Looks like a divine message to me - "PLAY THE SR5!"

 

[alansan]

Whacked the headstock of my SR5 off a very low roof when taking it off last night at rehearsals. Not a scratch. Up til now I was sceptical of the 'it was even still in tune' stories. SR5 is a tank of a bass.

 

[HeavyDuty]

Bad things seem to happen to you in church, Travis...

 

[Big Poppa]

Travis God is telling you to either play in a different band or change places of worship.

 

[Colin]

Maybe God feels you idolize your SR5 to much. Maybe He was warning you...

My wile idolizes me, that's why I get a burnt offering every night.

Colin