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Topic: Ever Thrown Your Bar At Someone? |
Jake L
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Grapevine, Texas
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Posted 27 Jan 2006 9:02 pm |
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Just curious...Anybody ever lost it and clocked somebody with your bar? I haven't personally, but I did threaten a lead guitarist who thought he was getting paid by the note...
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Rick Nicklas
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Verona, Mo. (deceased)
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Posted 27 Jan 2006 9:50 pm
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Not the bar, but I have kept my left leg on my steel unscrewed to where I could take it off with one turn at a few rowdy clubs I played at. Came very close to batting practice a few times but was lucky to just use my common sense and joking personality to avoid any serious confrontations. Guns; knives; drugs and prostitutes were the standard at a few of the choice places I played at but what a blast we had as I recollect.
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Rick
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Sidney Ralph Penton
From:
Moberly, Missouri, USA
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Posted 27 Jan 2006 10:18 pm
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i would never dram of doing something like that. but then again i play in different churches and there is not much roudieness going on there except raising of the hands and a bunch of shouting and praising god. there has been a few sinners in there, maybe a few with a drinking problem, and there might have been a prostitute or two in there too hard telling what kind of croud this psg playing will attract. but they're not mean. doc
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Richard Bass
From:
Sabang Beach, Philippines
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Posted 27 Jan 2006 10:19 pm
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Many years ago we played a show in Port Hood, Nova Scotia. Big brawl broke out and I had to use my Tele as a bat to keep from getting my butt kicked.
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Mike Neer
From:
NJ
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Posted 27 Jan 2006 10:22 pm
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| I don't think I'd throw it, I'd just hold it in my palm and punch the daylights out of someone. [This message was edited by Mike Neer on 27 January 2006 at 10:23 PM.] |
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Ron !
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Posted 27 Jan 2006 10:58 pm
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| Anybody ever lost it and clocked somebody with your bar? |
Tried it once but the owner of the establishment said that I had to put it back. 
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Al Udeen
From:
maple grove mn usa
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Posted 27 Jan 2006 11:11 pm
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| Never been thrown out of a bar either! |
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George Plemons
From:
Corsicana, Texas, USA
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Posted 27 Jan 2006 11:14 pm
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| Mike, I actually did put my bar in my hand and hit a guy who would not leave me alone. I was young and dumb then but it did a lot of damage and it only took one shot. I don't recommend it though....unless somebody bothers you hee hee hee |
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Bob Hoffnar
From:
Austin, Tx
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Posted 27 Jan 2006 11:34 pm
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I've clocked a couple guys by holding the bar inside my fist. One drunk guy who kept falling over on my steel and a singer who kept jumping around and crashing into me. I gave the singer a charlie horse so he limped over to the other side of the stage to finish the show. I clearly warned them both twice about exactly what I was going to do. I'm not a big guy at all but if you hit somebody like you mean it with a pedal steelbar in your fist its lights out.
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Billy Wilson
From:
El Cerrito, California, USA
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Posted 27 Jan 2006 11:52 pm
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| I had a cop take one away from me cuz he thought I might do just that. He gave it back to me. Not the brightest cop I ever met. |
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Joey Ace
From:
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 28 Jan 2006 4:34 am
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I'm having thoughts of you guys that play in church thowing a bar at a sleeping parishener, or a boring preacher.
I'd never throw my BJS. I like it too much.
Our guitarist throws picks. |
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HowardR
From:
N.Y.C.-Fire Island-Asheville
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Posted 28 Jan 2006 4:59 am
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What kind of bar do you guys recommend for this?
Do you prefer chrome or stainless? I assume a dobro bar would be unaceptable.....
As a related topic....what gauge string is recommended for strangling, and which brand do you recommend?[This message was edited by HowardR on 28 January 2006 at 05:02 AM.] |
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Mike Cass
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Posted 28 Jan 2006 5:47 am
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re Bob H: yep, a big lug fell into my horn too,twice in 5 minutes. Although I didnt launch the bar directly at him, the noise it made when it hit the concrete floor was very similar to a gunshot,with much the same crowd reaction...a$$es and elbows flyin'.
Havent KO'ed anyone with it though since I was 16; stripper using my guitar as an accessories table...biker boyfriend rather upset about it....WHAM!! and darkness on the face of his earth LOL! damm handy piece of gear,imho
ps, Al U, that was at Mr Harry's..remember that joint?[This message was edited by Mike Cass on 28 January 2006 at 05:54 AM.] |
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Ben Lawson
From:
Brooksville Florida
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Posted 28 Jan 2006 6:09 am
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| Yes I did throw my bar at a guy. He was our bass player and he had a gas problem. I told once more and he'd be eating steel. He did, I did, and it never happened again. That was at the Barn in Sanford Fl. about '92 or '93. |
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Don Barnhardt
From:
North Carolina, USA
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Posted 28 Jan 2006 6:26 am
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| In my younger days I wouldn't have dreamed of using a Stevens bar to play with but I always carried one in my pocket for emergencies. It works twice as good as a roll of nickles in your fist. |
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 28 Jan 2006 7:50 am
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| BJS worked for me ..... |
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Larry Strawn
From:
Golden Valley, Arizona, R.I.P.
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Posted 28 Jan 2006 7:58 am
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Never thrown my bar, but have "tapped" a couple of drunks on the back of their hand with it when they wanted to turn my tuners! lol..
works every time!
Larry
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Dale Bessant
From:
Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
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Posted 28 Jan 2006 8:11 am
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| No,but if you hold it length ways in your hand and make a fist and let'em have it, they get the point....Ha! |
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David Mason
From:
Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 28 Jan 2006 10:08 am
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Way, way back I used to play bass in some pretty low places and I took to carrying a hatchet around in my gig bag. It didn't seem to matter how big or how drunk the patrons were - everybody really, really respects a psychopathic ax murderer.  |
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Al Udeen
From:
maple grove mn usa
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Posted 28 Jan 2006 10:40 am
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| Mike Cass! [Mr. Harrys Broadway&Washington!] You were playing at 16? thats not fair, you had a 11yr jump on me. au |
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Stu Schulman
From:
Ulster Park New Yawk (deceased)
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Posted 28 Jan 2006 12:15 pm
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| Here's one you guys might want to try.I one inch bar inside of a sock with a knot tied in the sock,The knot gives ya'something to hold on to.A small water pistol filled with bleach is good too,aim for the eyes. |
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John Drury
From:
Gallatin, Tn USA
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Posted 29 Jan 2006 8:02 am
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If you are the type of player that is really into throwing your tone bar and your arm is in the 85-90 mph range, then the John Pearse Thermo-Cryonic Tone Bar is a must! The damn things are harder than chinese arithmetic!
I have dropped mine several times on a concrete floor without damage.
Expensive, but if you have the means I highly recommend them.
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John Drury
NTSGA #3
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Roger Francis
From:
kokomo,Indiana, USA
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Posted 29 Jan 2006 6:15 pm
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| I would'nt throw a 55.00 steel bar, but i might try a 12.00 crow bar at the knees. [This message was edited by Roger Francis on 29 January 2006 at 06:16 PM.] |
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Mike Cass
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Posted 29 Jan 2006 6:45 pm
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AU, yep, the most happenin' one square block in North Mpls:-)
11 years? that many huh? I guess Im just well preserved |
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Gary Spaeth
From:
Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 29 Jan 2006 7:37 pm
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| and i thought the launching pad was scary. |
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