ever lend your guitars out?

[Dmoney]

And Dmoney, would you really lend someone a johnny? I might donate one, but I wouldn't want it back again! :lol:

dude, what happens on tour, stays on tour! :D

[AndyR]

And Dmoney, would you really lend someone a johnny? I might donate one, but I wouldn't want it back again! :lol:

dude, what happens on tour, stays on tour! :D

:lol:

Oh yeah, and you don't want to lend me your guitars... even as little as 30 minutes noodling is enough for me to completely rot your strings :lol:

[Jonny]

I don't know anyone well enough to lend them my guitar, plus I don't know many near me to lend too.

[Ratrod]

I only lend out guitars to those I can completely trust with it.

same goes for amps. Someone who never touched a tube amp in his life, sure as hell won't touch mine. I've seen idiots plugging in and out without putting the volume to zero and leaving it running idle without switching to stand-by.

[TheIronBeast]

If I have some mates round for a jam I let them borrow my guitars when we're jamming, don't think I would lend them out for gigs though.

[Johnny Mac]

I have lent a few out for gigs. A friend of mine has my Richwood LP with Coldsweats in right now and I have his Bass. I do trust him though.

[MDV]

Yeah.

Not the top shelf stuff, but I'm happy to lend a more everyday guitar to anyone that I know well enough to know they arent a dick and it'll be in good hands (I dont need them to be my bestest friend).

[Henk]

Never have, never will.

[Ben_W]

same goes for amps. Someone who never touched a tube amp in his life, sure as hell won't touch mine. I've seen idiots plugging in and out without putting the volume to zero and leaving it running idle without switching to stand-by.

+1, I let a guy use my amp at a band's night thing, and as we were on last, and he was first, I went off for a bit, came back, and he had his bass plugged into it, then went on to change all my settings around, screwing everything up... lol.

[_tom_]

yeah I wont lend amps either unless they definitely know how a tube amp is meant to be used. I dont think many people realise that they shouldn't be turned on without the speakers plugged in. The other guitarist in my old band did it all the time. Somehow it hasnt broken his DSL yet, but his tubes do wear out quickly..

[HTH AMPS]

Yeah.

Not the top shelf stuff, but I'm happy to lend a more everyday guitar to anyone that I know well enough to know they arent a dick and it'll be in good hands (I dont need them to be my bestest friend).

can I lend a guitar MDV?   :lol:

I never lead guitars to anyone - the guitars I have now are the ones that have stayed with me for years and are THE ONES.  I'm not letting anyone mess with that, nor do I want someone else's sweat on my baby, urgh!!!

[Dmoney]

yeah I wont lend amps either unless they definitely know how a tube amp is meant to be used. I dont think many people realise that they shouldn't be turned on without the speakers plugged in. The other guitarist in my old band did it all the time. Somehow it hasnt broken his DSL yet, but his tubes do wear out quickly..

mate of mine used to lend out his DSL.
it got broken 3 times that i know of.
snapped off jack lead in the input... water over the power tubes... more tube related failures...
AND a tech ripped him off every time he had to get it fixed. and nobody who broke it gave him money.

UN-F*cking-LUCKY

[Philosoful]

Sounds like your friend needs to stick up for himself more.

I've lent my Herbert, my drum triggers with Module and a signal splitter to a local band on separate occasions, it's cool because they're getting places now and would help me out with gigs a bit if I was in more of a position to play. However, I dropped the signal splitter to them and they keep saying to me *I* can pick it up when I want. I done them the favour, they should drop it back right? I can't use it now anyway but I thought that was slightly disrespectful.

[blue]

i let a friend play a gig once with a flying v i had, that turned out ok.  but, i let someone borrow an overdrive pedal, a morley wah and a four track portastudio.  10 years later i finally got the two pedls back, the overdrive no longer working, but the portastudio seems to have gone forever.  i doubt i'd use it again, but it wasn't cheap, and he didn't seem the least bit bothered that he'd lost it, or that he'd broken the overdrive pedal.  he actually seemed really annoyed that i wanted my wah back! 

[38thBeatle]

Every now and again at a gig, someone comes up and says they are either a guitarist,bassist,keyboard player or drummer and demand to be allowed to play an instrument and show us how its done. It never ceases to amaze me how pushy they can be when they have had a few and are egged on by their mates. Mostly it is drummers and my drummer is a very surly individual and he makes it quite clear that they should go away. I usually try to remain polite and just tell them that we are paid to do a job and we have a set we are doing and "we don't have time" etc but I have had to be a bit blunt at times. I get offers of being shown how to play some songs that I might have fobbed off a request for too and some get offended by a refusal. It really p*sses me off when they do it mid song too but I am going off topic.