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Sharky
January 15th, 2005, 09:33 AM
I had this strange bottle, and the neck was nice n thick n symetrical :( n smooth n stuff, so I made a slide out of it. It was so good that I even had a little pouch made up for it.
Kept it safe for years until, this band I was touring with decided to play an impromtu gig at this outback hotel, a real dive.
After the first set, I put my slide on a window sill behind my amp, on the little stage they had.
I went to drain the weasle and when I got back the slide was gone.
I freaked. I asked the barman about it, he pointed me to the yardman, who laconically told me he'd chucked it in the bin because he thought it was a piece of broken glass. "Lets check the bin then", I said. "Just emptied them", he retorted, "down at the bottle dump".
I ran the 100 metres behind the pub to the bottle dump in desparation, only to see about twenty tons of smashed up glass in a big pile.
I aimlessly wandered around, poking at broken bottles until I finally gave up.
Funny thing is it was all polished and smooth, and looked nothing like a bit of broken glass.
Anyway,,,thems the breaks,,pardon the pun.

crowbarr
January 15th, 2005, 10:20 AM
oh man that sucks.

I had something similar with a tuner at this big gig last year, left in the back room we had been given and then the cleaners came in while we were out checkin the other bands, came back and it was gone as were some other important things which unless your a guitarist look crap and useless :mad:

Brendo613
January 15th, 2005, 04:31 PM
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=Brendan= :whstl:

fornies
January 15th, 2005, 05:15 PM
That sux

Sharky
January 16th, 2005, 02:08 AM
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Brendo613
January 16th, 2005, 04:54 AM
:lmao:

=Brendan= :boggle:

Weak as Hate
January 17th, 2005, 12:44 PM
haha, we are so mature

Ranger
January 30th, 2005, 10:35 PM
Nicely put.

Gnarles
July 5th, 2005, 08:08 PM
I was doing a blues gig a few years ago and I put my slide down on the drum riser in between songs. Normally, I have a little plastic 'finger' that lives on my mic stand that it goes on, but it got broke the week before and I hadn't picked up another one yet. This was a slide that I'd had for maybe 15 years or more. I stupidly didn't carry a spare because it never occured to me that I'd ever not have that one since I had it so long!

I played another song and as I was stepping back to the drum riser I felt & heard a CRUNCH under my heel. Oh nooo.

Yup, it was my slide. Nothing but crumbled glass and I was 15 minutes into a 4 hour blues gig - lots of slide to play, so I played the rest of the night with a beer bottle. Man, they're heavy! LOL

The next week I bought a dozen new Clayton glass slides, all exactly the same. One in every guitar case I own and a few more in the briefcase - just in case.

Cheers,
- JJ