Woman lands on guitar

chas smith R.I.P. · Post by **chas smith R.I.P.** » 1 Jul 2002 12:31 pm

Last night we were doing an uptempo version of 'Lester Leaps In' and I had just clammed through my solo when a woman landed on the keyhead end of the guitar. At first I thought that some guy had kept his bottle and just thrown his date at me, but it turns out that she had been spinning around and lost her balance. It didn't hurt the guitar, and so while she apologized to me, I apologized to Lester Young.

Earnest Bovine · Post by **Earnest Bovine** » 1 Jul 2002 1:14 pm

Bigsby?

John Steele (deceased) · Post by **John Steele (deceased)** » 1 Jul 2002 2:10 pm

Bells ! ding dong...

-John
(another lester fan)

chas smith R.I.P. · Post by **chas smith R.I.P.** » 1 Jul 2002 5:36 pm

Bigsby S-10

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 1 Jul 2002 5:46 pm

Never happened to the Prez, I'm sure...

Larry Bell · Post by **Larry Bell** » 1 Jul 2002 5:59 pm

Aw, someone must've leapt on Lester at one time or the other.

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2000 Fessenden S-12 8x8, 1969 Emmons S-12 6x6, 1971 Dobro

HowardR · Post by **HowardR** » 2 Jul 2002 4:44 am

Was it love at first sight? Good thing she didn't land on the vertical lever....

[This message was edited by HowardR on 02 July 2002 at 05:45 AM.]

Greg Vincent · Post by **Greg Vincent** » 2 Jul 2002 7:28 am

Where were you playing Chas and how come I never know about these shows??? Drunken ladies and everything --sounds like a fun show!

-GV

Earnest Bovine · Post by **Earnest Bovine** » 2 Jul 2002 7:58 am

Greg, you are correct, sir.
Chas, you should publicize your Liquid Kitty appearances in the Events and Announcements section of the Forum.

Tim Harr · Post by **Tim Harr** » 2 Jul 2002 8:07 am

I would be curious to know how many here know who Lester Young is???

I do...

Bobby Snell · Post by **Bobby Snell** » 2 Jul 2002 12:58 pm

Lester Young...didn't he play with Earl Gillespie?

Steve Alonzo Walker · Post by **Steve Alonzo Walker** » 2 Jul 2002 1:47 pm

A friend of mine told me that a lady was dancing and decided to sit down...yes, right on top of his steel and she road it all the way down! Broke the legs right off. Luckily it was a non-pedal and was easy to have repaired.

chas smith R.I.P. · Post by **chas smith R.I.P.** » 2 Jul 2002 4:23 pm

Was it love at first sight? Good thing she didn't land on the vertical lever..

Well let's see, the guitar is natural and she was pretty natural, now that I think about it.

Where were you playing Chas and how come I never know about these shows???

Um, well, I'm kind of neurotic about self-promotion. Maybe my therapist has an answer, except that I'm not in therapy any more, maybe I should go back, except that I don't think it helped very much, but maybe it did, I mean I'm not as bad as I used to be...does that answer your question?

Jerry Hayes R.I.P. · Post by **Jerry Hayes R.I.P.** » 3 Jul 2002 3:36 am

I was at a show in LA some years ago and we all had instruments in this hallway waiting to go on. I had a padded cover on my steel. I went back down the hallway one time and the next band was waiting to go on. Their chick singer had her big fat @$$ sitting right on top of my steel. I ran up and yelled at her to get her butt off my steel. The band sort of got hostile to me but their steel player calmed them down and said he was sorry and if he'd have noticed it he'd have told her to get off of it. I was lucky that it was my old ShoBud as that thing was built like a tank.

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Livin' in the Past and the Future with a 12 string Mooney tuning.

John Lacey · Post by **John Lacey** » 3 Jul 2002 5:36 am

Talk about cabinet drop.

chas smith R.I.P. · Post by **chas smith R.I.P.** » 3 Jul 2002 11:50 am

Hers or the guitars?

Frank Parish · Post by **Frank Parish** » 3 Jul 2002 3:10 pm

What is Lester Leaps In? Is this anything like the Hokey Pokey?

Paul Graupp · Post by **Paul Graupp** » 3 Jul 2002 6:37 pm

Let's see how that would work out, Frank.

You put the left cheek on
you take the left cheek off
You put the right cheek on
you take the right cheek off

If this keeps up, Chas is going to get a little behind in his work.......

Regards, Paul[This message was edited by Paul Graupp on 04 July 2002 at 04:43 PM.]

chas smith R.I.P. · Post by **chas smith R.I.P.** » 4 Jul 2002 12:06 am

What is Lester Leaps In?

There is a 4 CD set out of the Lester Young story that if you like Count Basie and Billie Holiday you will love. He was a supremely gifted jazz sax soloist in the '30s and '40s. It also has things that were recorded after he got discharged from the army and you can hear what that experience did to him.

Kevin Macneil Brown · Post by **Kevin Macneil Brown** » 4 Jul 2002 4:53 pm

This is a little off-topic, but speaking of Lester Young, has anyone here ever noticed-or thought about- a similarity in the musical approaches of Lester Young and Noel Boggs? Beyond both swinging masterfully, and the Boggs-Charlie Christian connection, it seems to me there's a similar use of space in their phrasing, and of course that command of coolness...

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 6 Jul 2002 8:23 am

Had a similar incident. I was playing a gig on the floor (no stage) when lo and behold, here comes a woman flying towards me. Seems she and hubby were swing dancing and failed to grab her hand. She knocked into my guitar which sent me falling backwards into a cocktail table (the little round ones you find in bars) which was holding my Twin Reverb with JBLS. The extent of all the injuries, you ask??? My guitar (ZB Custom S-10) had all 5 pedal rods bent, and I had 2 broken ribs when my Twin fell onto my chest from the table. Didn't even get an apology from the couple.

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Carter D10 9p/10k
Richard Sinkler

DJ Sillito · Post by **DJ Sillito** » 6 Jul 2002 11:33 am

Chas and Richard , Great stories! I have to share this one. Our band was playing on the floor (No stage) at a packed saloon. It was my first night using my new Carter D-10 and I was a little protective. Well a woman tripped over the monitor lost her balance and fell right down onto my volume pedal and kind of wedged herself between the last pedal rod and the leg on the steel. She was a little drunk so it took her awhile to finally pick herself up. It bent the last pedal rod a bit. The worst part was she came back about two minutes later and while standing RIGHT in front of me started apologizing prefusely while doing a personal dance routine which I swear involved an imaginary pole. BOY WAS I EMBARRASSED. It seemed like the whole night I was deflecting wayward dancing women from crashing into my guitar! I felt like a pizza boy in a women's prison! And who said nothing exciting ever happens to the steel player? At least it has made for great conversations.

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Darren James
Carter D-10 8P 5K
Nashville 400, ProfexII

Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 6 Jul 2002 12:56 pm

They used to "say "The LORD looks out for drunks". Maybe we could get Shot and Pete to look out for steels!

Chick Donner · Post by **Chick Donner** » 6 Jul 2002 7:30 pm

You're lucky! Back in the sixties, I had an old sweathog in a Honolulu skull orchard land on mine one nite, and had to have a buddy at Hickam AFB weld the end plate back together! Back then, the AF was about the only place one coule find a heliarc welder.

Rick Garrett · Post by **Rick Garrett** » 7 Jul 2002 3:12 am

Yall mean to tell me that if a big ol drunk gal trips and falls on or against your steel, you dont make somebody pay for the repairs, parts and all?? I dont play on gigs just at home but Im tellin you if my sweet little bride of 25 (nearly 26 years) came in my study drunk and fell over one of my guitars, she better d4mn well have her checkbook in her hand.

Rick
P.S. Im safe, she probably wont read this.