[scottrod]

Once at a “battle of the bands” show, I was finishing up tearing down my keyboard rig while the guitar player for the next band was setting up in my old location.

I overheard him mumbling to himself and swearing at his rig about how it always sounded like crap. As it was a nice Marshall head and 4-way cabinet, I figured something must be fundamentally wrong. I took a look at the back and saw he had the output plugged into the speaker cabinet with a cheap, thin, Radio Shack guitar cord.

I said, “Dude, you need a speaker cord, not a guitar cord.”

“Huh?”

“Yeah, you know, a speaker cord. Get yourself some cord from a lamp or something and wire up the plugs with heavy, unshielded wire.”

He said, “What do you take me for, an idiot?”

Hmmm. Well I didn’t before, but…

I turned on my heel and walked off. He deserved the sound he was getting.