Last month whilst rehearsing with the band and missing our bassist I decided that what was needed was some energy. So I started jumping around and then took the stupid decision to perform a few windmills. This is stupid because I know on my Les Paul guitar I have a good chance of hitting the pickup switch (I've done it before and made it quite wobbly)
Anyway I did some windmill, hit the switch, and suddenly my guitar was screetching feedback. My Les Paul has always been prone to microphonic feedback, but this was something else.
With a mere 4 days til our next gig, I was to put it frankly, fucked.
I quickly thought about my backup guitars, - A cheap Squire Stratocaster with a broken machinehead, a cheap Les Paul copy with a broken machine head and a Epiphone Sheraton with a bad 17th fret. Lovely.
The cheap Les Paul was ruled out when it emerged that the feedback from this guitar was worse than my real Les Paul! (An inspection proved that it's humbcker pickups were in fact single coils in a humbucker case! Warning to those who buy cheap guitars with "Humbuckers")
So in a tough choice I picked the Stratocaster. Big mistake. The bastard cut out on me several times throughout the gig. Never done it before, obviously this guitar has a sense of timing. Nothing in the world makes me more furious than onstage problems, it makes me fucking insane with anger!!
So now the Les Paul is being fixed, and god forbid anything like this happens again.
