Broken geetar....

Another place we played had started an open mic thing on Sunday afternoons. So we had played there the weekend and they asked if we'd be interested in hosting the open mic.

We agreed. Not much money but the club was a good place to play.

So a buddy of ours comes in with his Gibson Hummingbird and plays a few songs then sets it on the stand. We go on a break.... next thing we know... there's a crash and this guy is laying in a tangle of cymbal stands and ..... yep... the hummingbird is in pieces. He was drunk as a skunk... could barely stand up and had gotten on stage thinking he was going to sing a song.... grabbed for the mic stand, missed, lost his balance and fell backwards into the Hummingbird and drum kit.

The Hummingbird was damaged beyond repair.

The drunk starts apologizing to everyone and ...I got to give it to my friend.... he held his temper well. The drunk promised to pay him for the guitar to which my friend says that was a $900 guitar.

A few weeks later, we were back there for a Wed night college nite... my friend comes up to me and recounts the story.... he tells me the guy met him at the club one night and peeled off 9 crisp new 100 dollar bills and asked was he sure that was enough to cover the guitar, and again apologized.

Cool ending.

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