Oh yeah, that sounds very familiar, scary even and reminds me of another event in my life which I had forgotten about, or perhaps I've just been trying to push it out of my memory because my guitar still carries the sign of it.
I had placed my Gibson Artist on a stand in front of my loudspeaker set, huge Tannoy Gold monitors, on which I had placed my 19'' rack items due to the limmited space in my room.
As I have a 'small' homerecording studio, the stack had grown quite a bit as every new item was just simply placed on top of the previous one.
At the time and till now it consists of:
Roland SDE 3000,
Yamaha TX802
Yamaha SPX 90
TC Electronic 1140 param
Rane 2*10 band eq
Shadow MIDI interface
Yamaha TX7
The gibson was modified to drive the midi interface and stood there allways hooked up to all of it.
I also had an Alsation at the time and since all of this was in a corner of the room, with hardly any space behind and besides it , I just didn't foresee any problems with it (STUPID!)
One evening I came home from work and I should have noticed the 'please forgive me' look in the dog's eyes as I entered my house. She didn't seem as exited as normal and initially I thought she had peed on the floor or something (crap happens with dogs).
Entering my room a scene of total devastation caught my eyes, the entire stack had fallen down on top of the Gibson which sat right in front of it. The dog appearently had spotted something in the corner and must have tried to go there, perhaps a mouse or maybe a coocky which somehow had found it's way there.
Her leg had appearently caught the wire or perhaps she got totally entangled by it and she must have paniced.
The guitar had broken the fall of the rack items and they had become stuck a meter lower between the tannoy and a small wooden desk on which my mixing console was located, where they sat at a 45 degree angle.
Although it looked like a real mess, everything still looked intact and after putting those items back everything was still working fine.
However when I inspected the guitar a hole in the lacquer showed, as if someone had driven a sharp pen into it, right there in the lower one of the mickey mouse ears.
Fortunately I didn't see anything else inspite of the force with which the stack must have hit it. I didn't even go for an insurance claim, I doubt wether they would have paid me anyway as one could say it was pure negligance on my part.
Remembering a few other Gibsons which had a toggle switch in that exact location, I decided to drill out the dammage and lay in a round position marker, which worked very well for a two lefthanded unskilled administrator. So if some day you'll come across a beautifully flamed vintage, very used and smoke lacquered Gibson ES Artist Active with an inlayed white dot in the lower micky mouse ear, you know where it came from and with this story attached it should fetch a higher price!
Ludwig
