Musical Evil
My Family is very musical, as I am the eldest brother I got the guitar bug first, and had a beautiful Les Paul Custom for having 'talent'. My little brother started to play, and being 14 and clueless played my lovely instrument, and dented it all up the neck.

Still, revenge is a dish best served cold...

A few years later, brother is in a 'hair metal' band, all shiny shirts and pointy guitars. Dessie had a 'Nuno Bettencourt' Washburn (nice axe) I had a Ibanez 540 Radius (nicer axe), which I had retrofitted with "reflex reds", the most powerful pickups on the planet.

Dessie "can I lend your Guitar?", "yeah, sure" says I, with malice. My scheme was born "anything I should know?" "Yeah, those pickups are a bit toppy, so wind up the mids" "Thanks"

Their first song was "purple Rain', that turgid lump of shite that Prince warbled. It required a very very 'clean' sound, 'glassy' in fact.

But my pickups gave 2-3 times the output of the Washburn.

I could barely stifle my glee as Dessie stood, legs akimbo, chin pointed skywards, blond hair flowing down his back in the most guitar heroic pose ever, a rock God, if you will, he rised his arm and......

KERRANGG!!!!

His eyes opened in shock, confusion and horror, as he wheeled around to adjust the amp he tripped on the lead my axe, propelling him into the bass player and falling into the stack behind him.

In my defense, I later laughed in his face about this, and to his everlasting credit he laughed back. In my family, that means honors even.
(micmac is happy as a pig in shite, Sat 13 Dec 2008, 3:19, 3 replies)

In similar circumstances
I leant on the tremelo arm of my co-guitarist (and twat)'s strat while he was tuning it up. He couldn't figure out for the life of him why he sounded like a sack of shit on stage 30 seconds later...
(Axeman Jim, Sat 13 Dec 2008, 12:29, closed)

Nice one
Thats a good un, wish I had thought of that
(micmac is happy as a pig in shite, Sun 14 Dec 2008, 6:40, closed)

Soundcheck?
If he went on, set his amp, and played live without ever checking how it would sound, never mind doing a proper full-band soundcheck, he was always destined to sound shit.
(Sammyhaswoefullyneglectedyou, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 12:27, closed)