DESTROYED INSTRUMENTS - your stories?

[fgl]

I was really tickled by this post / thread http://soft.com.sg/forum/showthread.php?t=41544 on the "killer " guitar ..its inspired me to start a thread on:

DESTROYED INSTRUMENTS - i.e: How your favourite guitar, bass or other instrument WAS DESTROYED by accident or purpose, etc...

I'll start the ball rolling:

Many years ago when a was a broke NS man noob, I found an old Hofner Gibson style 335 Copy (the BB KIng type model) guitar in my uncle's storeroom. It was old and beat up but could still be used. At the time, not having $$$ to buy an electric guitar, doing it up to bring to jams was really great and cool.

I made the mistake of carrying it around in a flimsy cheapo softcase.

On fateful day while I was on an overhead bridge, just as I was about to walk down from the top, the old case strap my guitar was in gave way and fell. The guitar fell down the stairs, slid across the mid stair area , continue second round down to the bottom ofthe overhead bridge.

When I got down to retreive the case, i could "feel" the guitar was in 3 pieces when I picked it up.... The neck broke and body was shattered .... a real gonner and heart pain...

more "destroyed guitar" stories to follow.....

 

[PatheinRaindropMoe]

i pity the concrete that was hit by the guitar

...

okkk, kidding only.

i "destroyed" guitars in my hand, coz there aint no soul left of sounding like what it shud be. Destroyed spiritually i mean, not pysically.

 

[YSR]

destroying playable guitars is such a dumb thing to do man. Id rather sell the crap

 

[fgl]

YSR - we want to hear the stories behind it .... whether it was accidental or on purpose ...
of course we al would rather sell stuff we dont like ....

Patintheraindropmoe ... yeah, it hit the concrete just outside your house lah.... lolz

 

[Blodstyre]

One of my worst experience is destroying my guitar with my own hand. Lucky for me, at the time, I was using an el cheapo guitar (during my teen years that is).

I was attracted to the neck bending technic. I know that it is not recommended. Mebbe the strain of too much neck bending finally took its toll. It was during a jam session that I broke the neck of my guitar while bending it.

He he.....

As of now, no more neck bendings.....




meh

ps: mebbe it was also due to the fact that I was wondering how low I could bend it.

 

[bockscar]

i hope one day i can smash a guitar.

i know it sounds dumb

but seeing rock stars doing it. i would love to try. you know, makes me feel like a rock star with many guitars.

but after smashing. i realise i just wasted $$

 

[sleepykitty]

I smashed a guitar once in back when i was in sec 4.
After school hours, me and a friend went into the class two doors down from ours. We knew there was a beat-up classical guitar in there. We went in and took it out from the soft case.
My friend raised the guitar and smashed it to the floor...
But..
It didn't shatter into pieces like I imagined it would. (kurt cobain and pete townsend make it all seem so easy.)
So I tried smashing it too. Damn fun.
We then laid the guitar on the floor and jumped all over it.
No prizes for guessing how the guitar turned out after that.

 

[Hydrofly]

I maintain my guitars very friggin well, I think. Conditions still pretty perfect after 6 months. Hope it maintains for a few more years. And i don't bend the neck lol! Not on my iceman!

 

[Cheez]

No one can beat this one. Richard Devine totally destroyed the NEKO keyboard (for those who don't know NEKO keyboards - they are the most expensive keyboards with a PC integrated with a keyboard - cost 5 figures).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XjYk_IIZ7o

 

[AEnimic]

I smashed a guitar once in back when i was in sec 4.
After school hours, me and a friend went into the class two doors down from ours. We knew there was a beat-up classical guitar in there. We went in and took it out from the soft case.
My friend raised the guitar and smashed it to the floor...
But..
It didn't shatter into pieces like I imagined it would. (kurt cobain and pete townsend make it all seem so easy.)
So I tried smashing it too. Damn fun.
We then laid the guitar on the floor and jumped all over it.
No prizes for guessing how the guitar turned out after that.

gosh..what a GREAT FRIEND YOU HAD!

wonder who he is.

 

[PatheinRaindropMoe]

Patintheraindropmoe ... yeah, it hit the concrete just outside your house lah.... lolz

heh, thats a good reply, i like the way you phrase it

And no, no stairway to overhead bridge outside my place

 

[Elias]

Though my guitars weren't destroyed per say but freak accidents do happen...
First case happened during one of my earlier gigs donkey years ago...to my first electric guitar, my precious Ibanez Artist, in which my strap came out of my strap button during soundcheck and the guitar just fell face-first flat onto the stage @_@ Luckily it was okay!! No broken 3-way switch/knobs or anything! But unfortunately, it suffered this when it slid off a wall at home:

Damage: Gloss, finish were scrapped...leaving bare wood exposed :/

Then it happened again to my louya no-brand first guitar (eh...still damn precious okay! It's my first guitar...got sentimental value wan leh!):

End result:

Damage: headstock nearly severed, and neck almost broke off, plus a few broken teeth...er, I mean, tuner pegheads :lol: And the solution: 2 DIY screws! Now, that's a good answer to volute damages, isn't it? *LOL*

 

[PatheinRaindropMoe]

woah, gerek siah! Shud borrow your bassist stingray and try making those pattern. Mwahaha, will add in more mojos to his already mojoed bass

i had a classical guitar(first guitar also, "borrowed" from my brother) which suffered the same fate as yours. The headstock came off when i accidentally drop it to have the head stock hitting table.

Sibey sad then, hatta put those furniture type of super glue to glue it back.

 

[eXtr3me]

wah i see all the borken guitar pics, i feel heart pain for you guys. I hope my guitars never will suffer the same fate. I will take extra care from now, i dont want it to go to hospital.

 

[Elias]

There is an old wise saying: One must endure the pains of having your guitar(s) go through the physical trials, only then you can be a true Guitarer.

We is reach Guitar Nirvana now. Oooooomh...

 

[evodia]

There is an old wise saying: One must endure the pains of having your guitar(s) go through the physical trials, only then you can be a true Guitarer.

We is reach Guitar Nirvana now. Oooooomh...

lol wad is that suppose to mean?

 

[PatheinRaindropMoe]

that means, once the instrument become bits and pieces, one will see guitar as wood and strings, beyond that, a tool to make some music and shared memories of certain places, certain time, certain happening and certain frequency that match our mind, instead of looking at it like a piece of important life threatening/changing thing or worshipping as if its everything in life etc etc

 

[fgl]

heh, thats a good reply, i like the way you phrase it

And no, no stairway to overhead bridge outside my place

no lah...your OLD house lah....

kiddin ....;-)

heh ...no stairway to heaven ...after that ....

 

[fgl]

I smashed a guitar once in back when i was in sec 4.
After school hours, me and a friend went into the class two doors down from ours. We knew there was a beat-up classical guitar in there. We went in and took it out from the soft case.
My friend raised the guitar and smashed it to the floor...
But..
It didn't shatter into pieces like I imagined it would. (kurt cobain and pete townsend make it all seem so easy.)
So I tried smashing it too. Damn fun.
We then laid the guitar on the floor and jumped all over it.
No prizes for guessing how the guitar turned out after that.

first kitten abusers.... now guitar killers...among the youth of today ....sigggghhhhhh......

 

[Hydrofly]

first kitten abusers.... now guitar killers...among the youth of today ....sigggghhhhhh......

oi, their a minority, i'd never trash a guitar, unless if its a les paul, or a strat. hahaha. OK maybe their not a minority!!!