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One time I was playing an acoustic set in a club called Nasty's. I was on the cello, and there was a live-fire dartboard about 3 feet from my head, and a fight broke out at the pool table right beyond the dart board lane, in the middle of one of our ballads. Who knew cello could piss people off that way?
My most embarrassing moment on stage was at a concert where I was so disappointed with the group I was with, that in the middle of the song, I walked up to each of them and sang their parts, then sat down on stage, with my back to the audience, and pouted out the ending. Baaaaaaad form. Baaaaaaad musicianship. Just baaaaaaaaaad choice.
Thankfully, I grew out of it, and later discovered that everyone loves a good recovery, and no one knows if something's going wrong until you *tell* them. So... best to soldier on, and if anything... just make a joke that invites everyone to laugh at the humanity of the situation.
I have a lot of favorite instruments. A '58 stratocaster that my uncle lets me use; an Alvarez DY62C that Monte Montgomery gave me and Ed Reynolds modified so I could beat it the way I do in performance and not destroy it; a cheap Mexican tele that my sister gave me, but was on the wall in my house when it burned down - Ed Reynolds rebuilt it with Lollar pickups, and made the neck stain match the soot, so it's all black except where my playing it has worn the soot off; my cello, a 200-yer-old French instrument which is calico colored (I named it Carolina Bellalegrina, even though she's French)... a custom Neumann 104 hybrid that I built from parts the factory gave me when I asked questions about it they couldn't answer... I still have my 80s Kramer American Sustainer, my second electric guitar, a Fender MusicMaster with the words "Black Sabbath" scratched in the back... my Martin D2-R, the guitar I tracked my first two albums with... A couple of basses, and my modified Washburn N2.
