Well I wasn't playing keys but bass in a band one night. One of the connections to one of the speakers in the bass cab had broken away so as it was a sealed cabinet I had had to unscrew the 15 inch speaker from the front of the cone and remove it to reconnect the speaker wire. All was going well and I fixed the connection and a few minutes before we were due to play was screwing the speaker back in. I guess it was the tension and rush of getting it done in time but as Murphy's Law would have it I slipped with the big ol' screwdriver I was using and it slipped and went right through the speaker cone. The lead singer was watching and his eyes just glazed over at the sight of me sitting there with a screwdriver in my speaker cone. Luckily it had punched out a hole but hadn't torn the cone at all. I put a small piece of duct tape on the hole to help ensure it wouldn't tear, put the front grill on the cab and played the gig without any problems. In fact that speaker ended up lasting for many years with the small hole in it.

But my heart was in my mouth when it actually happened though.


[This message has been edited by Nigel (edited 09-11-2001).]