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Topic: Steelin Is A Dangerous Job! |
Randy Gilliam
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San Antonio, Texas, USA
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Posted 8 Nov 2009 11:38 am |
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I Played at the Stagecoach In San Angelo Texas Sat. Night,In The Middle Of The Second Set The Metal air conditioning Vent Decided It Had Heard Enough,and Came Crashing Down 12 inch by 12 inch Metal One Of the Real Heavey Gooduns, It Hit My Frett Board with a Loud Crash , Broke The First 3 Strings and Ruined My Metal Frett Board On My Emmons PP , Next Time I Wont set Under That Vent Anymore!  |
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Hook Moore
From:
South Charleston,West Virginia
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Bob Cox
From:
Buckeye State
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Posted 8 Nov 2009 11:57 am
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| I was playing at an ol brewery and the day after the show the roof fell in on top the stage and smashed it to smitherines.It must of got damaged from to many loud bands.We quit at 1 am roof fell in at 4 |
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Bob Tuttle
From:
Republic, MO 65738
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Posted 8 Nov 2009 12:28 pm
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| Hey Randy, That is scary. I was sitting in that same spot Friday and Saturday nights, two weekends ago. |
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Gary Lee Gimble
From:
Fredericksburg, VA.
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Posted 8 Nov 2009 1:01 pm
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| Randy, did your geetar file a workers compensation report? |
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Danny Letz
From:
Old Glory,Texas, USA 79540
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Posted 8 Nov 2009 3:02 pm
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| New consequence for "Shakin The Rafters". |
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Twayn Williams
From:
Portland, OR
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Posted 8 Nov 2009 3:36 pm
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I used to play a place in Kansas City called Harling's Upstairs (on the 2nd Floor) with a world beat band (BCR) and the floor would bounce like a trampoline when the dancers would really get going. I was always afraid that one day the entire thing would come down and kill us all 
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Jody Sanders
From:
Magnolia,Texas, R.I.P.
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Posted 8 Nov 2009 4:12 pm
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| Glad you're OK Randy. Jody. |
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Mickey Adams
From:
Bandera Texas
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Posted 8 Nov 2009 4:58 pm Awwwwwe
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My baby got banged up?????!!!.Certainly glad you're OK!! of course...
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Pete Walthall
From:
Arkansas, USA
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Posted 8 Nov 2009 7:13 pm crash down
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| randy you must not had jagwire strings |
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Luke Morell
From:
Ramsey Illinois, USA Hometown of Tex Williams
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Posted 8 Nov 2009 7:37 pm
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| Randy, sorry your guitar got damaged, but glad you're ok. |
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Randy Gilliam
From:
San Antonio, Texas, USA
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Posted 8 Nov 2009 7:57 pm Thanks
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Bob Did You Fix The Vent For Me Ha Ha, Wish You Could Have Came and Set in, Mickey Your Baby PP Will Have To Go To The Hospital For a New Frett Board, My Strings Were Bobby Seymore Maypops, Glad I Still Got 5 Fingers Left. 
Last edited by Randy Gilliam on 10 Nov 2009 1:00 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Gordon Borland
From:
San Antonio, Texas, USA
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Posted 10 Nov 2009 8:51 am Wow!
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Glad your okay. You win. The worst I ever had was "two ton Annie" and her "three ton" partner end up on top of my MSA. I was playing at the Shady Lady and had to setup on the floor. No strings broke but must have made quite an impression on the south part of a north bound Miss Annie! It gave "sitting in with the band" a whole new meaning!
Uh? Does that mean you lost five fingers?
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Ben Jones
From:
Seattle, Washington, USA
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Posted 10 Nov 2009 11:39 am
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OCayz Corrale in madison WI.
First a semi truck drove thru the window and onto the stage, killed one person outside the club.
Then a year later the floor collapsed, sending the dancers plummeting into the basement. Finally a year or so later it burned to the ground.
great place. |
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Gordon Borland
From:
San Antonio, Texas, USA
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Posted 10 Nov 2009 12:51 pm Ben wins
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Randy,
Ben wins don't you think??
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Randy Gilliam
From:
San Antonio, Texas, USA
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Posted 10 Nov 2009 1:02 pm Ben Is On Top so Far Gordan
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Ben You Are On Top ! Randy G.  |
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Damir Besic
From:
Nashville,TN.
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Dave Biller
From:
Texas, USA
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Posted 11 Nov 2009 12:55 pm
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I have similar one, Randy. AC vent let loose and was filled with condensation. About 20 gallons of water dumped out of the ceiling all at once, just 2 feet from my old sho~bud! (PS please find me another nice old p/p  ) |
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Randy Gilliam
From:
San Antonio, Texas, USA
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Posted 12 Nov 2009 5:37 am Pp
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| Hi Dave, PPs Are Getting Harder To Find,Gordon I Got 9 Gooduns And One Badun ,Randy G. |
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Jim Lindsey (Louisiana)
From:
Greenwell Springs, Louisiana (deceased)
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Posted 12 Nov 2009 11:32 am
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OMG! Glad you're okay, man. And, very sorry to hear of the damage to your guitar.
It must be a San Angelo thing ... back in 1992, when I was with Ty Herndon, we were playing at Texas The Club there in San Angelo and I was sitting directly under an A/C vent. We'd just finished the night when the whole A/C vent assembly and a couple of the suspended ceiling tiles suddenly came crashing right down on me, my 1990 Mullen and part of my effects rack. Fortunately, I'd just covered both my steel and the effects rack as we'd finished the night, so there was no damage to my guitar or rack equipment, but my Resistol Quicksilver cowboy hat was never the same again.
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Ben Jones
From:
Seattle, Washington, USA
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Posted 12 Nov 2009 3:48 pm Re: Ben Is On Top so Far Gordan
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| Randy Gilliam wrote: |
| Ben You Are On Top ! Randy G. |
no way Randy, i wasnt there for any of those events, tho i did play that place many many times. sounds like your brush with danger was much closer than any of mine were. |
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Eric West
From:
Portland, Oregon, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 14 Nov 2009 1:50 pm
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Hmm..
Well yesterday I start off to a gig a few hundred miles away with a van pulling a trailer with my SHo~BUd securely standing in a safe place.
I started getting red flags when the driver ripped open the top rear of the trailer by hitting a tree before leaving his driveway and then hitting several curbs. I checked my gitar at the first stop and it was alright.
Then he ran over a foot high curb and you could hear everything n the trailer take a dive.
About 50 miles down the freeway I demanded to check again.
This time my Marrs Retrofit Professional had been nearly destroyed by a 30 watt keyboard amp scooting across the floor into it. Two broken pedals three rods ripped out and broken ball joints, two bent/broken knee levers.
I told the bandleader to pull over and let me get me and my stuff out.
I did, and stayed there till I got a ride home. I asked if he had "insurance" and he asked "why??" I said because he had an accident when he hit the last foot high curb, abd showed him where he bent the wheel....
He said he'll make it right.
He will.
375$ for what the gig was going to pay for the two nights I missed, or the George Strait act next weekend is gonna have to call Lynn.
I've got some canibalizing to do, and a little w touch up, but I'll handle that out of my end.
SHoulda cased it I guess but I doubt if it woulda made any difference. The guy was driving like a lunatic.
I still dunno if they made it over the passes, or even did the gig.
Like Lorretta said "Well, there ain't gonna be no 'nother time."...
I'm surprised I didn't get mad at the time, but it steams me more and more as I think about it.. I won't have any problem enforcing my "terms"..
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Jon Nygren
From:
Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 14 Nov 2009 2:10 pm
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OCayz Corrale in madison WI.
First a semi truck drove thru the window and onto the stage, killed one person outside the club.
Then a year later the floor collapsed, sending the dancers plummeting into the basement. Finally a year or so later it burned to the ground.
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It was a great place, actually. Played there many times. |
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