Definitely the WRONG way to use your case

[lukmanohnz]

I wonder if his mandolin was in the case at the time...

http://www.localnews8.com/news/man-a...-face/25976920

[Bertram Henze]

I wonder if his mandolin was in the case at the time...

If it was, and still is ok, that case certainly qualifies for airline travel.

[wildpikr]

Must have taken lessons from this guy...

[Denny Gies]

Calton or TLK? They leave out such important information.

[mandocrucian]

Good as a folding metal chair!



(The news report didn't say what instrument the assaulted band member played. Or if he had it coming to him. Betcha it was the banjo player!)

[Steve Ostrander]

The only thing that would make it better is if it was a banjo case.....

[nickster60]

I read that story this morning. I have a house in Idaho Falls so I keep up on the local news. Big news in Idaho Falls not to much happens out there. I wouldn't want to be on the other end of one of those Weber cases, built like a tank.

[samlyman]

Oh Idaho! Some of the people in this state make me want to move one mile west and get out of this crazy place (to Pullman, WA).

[allenhopkins]

For sale: custom Shmergel Devastator flight case. A real banjo (player) killer!

[farmerjones]

Doc, I axed if it was a little guitar, and he just went OFF.

[Pete Counter]

El-Kabong?

[mandocrucian]

Ask yourself..... how many times might this have potentially happened with you? (Especially if you were picking in Key West!!! )

http://www.localnews8.com/news/man-a...-face/25976920

http://temp.swaggertheband.com/

Incidentally, yesterday on TNT, there was an episode of the forensic crime show Bones ("Mayhem on a Cross") where the skeleton of a bassist was being used as an onstage prop by a Norwegian black metal band. (The opening 5 minutes of that show is always a gross-out hoot!)



PS:
What did the punched out picker sing when he got back on his feet?
"I get knocked down, but I get up again, You're never gonna keep me down...."

[nickster60]

Sam
There are states that put Idaho to shame. You should spend sometime time down here in the South.
Buy the way Go Vandals
Proud U of I student

[PJ Doland]

A fight between members of a band playing Irish music at a bar two days before St. Patrick's Day.

I wonder if alcohol could have been involved?!?

[bratsche]

What is his Mandolin Cafe username?

bratsche

[samlyman]

Nickster: I've been down south a lot over the years. I spent a year in Rexburg at Ricks College (1979), annually bike in the Craters of the Moon area, attend the Weiser Fiiddle Contest, and regularly go to Boise to visit my oldest son.

I never attended the U of I but my wallet sure has as three of my five kids are Vandals and the youngest is set to start as a freshman in a little over a year.

Where do you hail from?

[mrmando]

This is why I never pick a fight with anyone but the whistle player.

[mandocrucian]

This is why I never pick a fight with anyone but the whistle player.

Are you kidding? Think again.

I'd much rather have someone swinging a Tele like a club at me. Don't kid yourself that a tin whistle stab (with either end) to the soft tissue won't penetrate. Into the eye or throat, it could easily be "curtains".

(Getting "tiger clawed" by someone wearing fingerpicks would also be highly unpleasant.)

[nickster60]

Sam
I meant like Georgia,South Carolina, Florida. I hail originally from Connecticut and have lived in Florida for 20 years. I have a house in Idaho Falls I plan on semi-retiring too. I want to finish by B.S so I transferred my credits to the U of I and have taking classes in their Idepentant study program. My wife is also a student but not matriculated.

[samlyman]

I guess the moral to the story is don't pick fights with band mates as any instrument or case can be turned into a weapon. As for me, I'm glad my mando sits in a Calton in case I have to protect myself.

[sgarrity]

I was just typing the exact same thing!

[nickster60]

I guess it is better to try to get along with your band mates. If you hit your lead singer with a instument case you could be out of work. A banjo player well I am on the fence on them.

[CES]

I guess it is better to try to get along with your band mates. If you hit your lead singer with a instument case you could be out of work. A banjo player well I am on the fence on them.

Seen Zombieland? A resonator banjo, esp a cheap import made like a tank to avoid warrantee issues, could do some damage, lol. And hitting a banjo player in the head or face with anything is unlikely do do any significant damage (insert brainless/toothless banjo player jokes here).





Btw, I own a banjo (a cheap import open back model that wouldn't stand up to too much head banging), am from SC, and currently live in North Carolina (which is pushing it vertically, but you do whatcha gotta do). I would have never in a million years thought "southern Idaho," either...guess it's all about where your mind is at!

[samlyman]

I was just typing the exact same thing!

I guess Heiden players think alike!

[mrmando]

Are you kidding? Think again.

Ah, but Niles, you study martial arts, don't you? You probably don't need an instrument case of any kind to defend yourself.