Is the legend true - do musicians ever get so hungry they eat their instruments?

LillyW · 09-16-2012, 04:38 PM

I have heard it said many times that if a band gets too hungry on stage they will eat their instruments.

Recently I've even seen a picture of this happening linked here:
LadFish - Hungry Musicians

...but alas, this is only a drawing - not a photograph.

Has anyone else heard of this rumour. If so what bands, dates venues etc..

And better still can anyone direct me to some concrete evidence!

Many many thanks,

Lills

**Frownland** · 09-16-2012, 05:27 PM

Many times, after a show, my guitar looks so outlandishly savoury and and sweet at the same time that I take a few nibbles, but then I remember that it costs several hundred dollars to get a new one and buying regular food would be a lot cheaper. Sometimes I eat a recorder for good measure when I'm really craving an instrument because they're extraordinarily cheap, but that's one of my few excursions where I really go all out and eat my instrument.

gunnels · 09-16-2012, 05:29 PM

This reminds me of that time I saw someone drink the condensation from his trumpet...

bob. · 09-16-2012, 05:37 PM

^that is ****ing disgusting

jackhammer · 09-16-2012, 05:43 PM

Many men have tried to eat their instruments but you have to have a rib removed to accomplish this task.

**Goofle** · 09-16-2012, 08:19 PM

Didn't one famous musician have a rib removed for the intended purpose of "eating" one of his "instruments"?

Justthefacts · 09-16-2012, 08:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Goofle11

Didn't one famous musician have a rib removed for the intended purpose of "eating" one of his "instruments"?

Marilyn Manson. I might see him in concert with Rob Zombie in Tampa. Pretty stoked

Electrophonic Tonic · 09-16-2012, 09:42 PM

I have a feeling this is some urban legend/smear campaign that came from Don Draper dads in the 1950's who told this to their kids to keep them away from "the rock and/or roll music". It certainly plays into the 'starving artist' theme that you hear about with the modernist artists who made art that was not acceptable to the masses at the time.

Insane Guest · 09-17-2012, 02:08 PM

Swallowed a piece of a guitar pick once that I was chewing, felt like it cut the back of my throat, wasn't even that hungry though.

mr dave · 09-19-2012, 04:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LillyW

I have heard it said many times that if a band gets too hungry on stage they will eat their instruments.

And better still can anyone direct me to some concrete evidence!

Are you familiar with the concept of a metaphor?

That's what this is. It's when a musician is so broke that they choose to sell their instrument so they can use that cash to buy food.

Really though... evidence?

09-16-2012, 04:38 PM	#1 (permalink)
LillyW Groupie Join Date: Sep 2012 Posts: 15	Is the legend true - do musicians ever get so hungry they eat their instruments? I have heard it said many times that if a band gets too hungry on stage they will eat their instruments. Recently I've even seen a picture of this happening linked here: LadFish - Hungry Musicians ...but alas, this is only a drawing - not a photograph. Has anyone else heard of this rumour. If so what bands, dates venues etc.. And better still can anyone direct me to some concrete evidence! Many many thanks, Lills

09-16-2012, 05:27 PM	#2 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	Many times, after a show, my guitar looks so outlandishly savoury and and sweet at the same time that I take a few nibbles, but then I remember that it costs several hundred dollars to get a new one and buying regular food would be a lot cheaper. Sometimes I eat a recorder for good measure when I'm really craving an instrument because they're extraordinarily cheap, but that's one of my few excursions where I really go all out and eat my instrument. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

09-16-2012, 05:37 PM	#4 (permalink)
bob. Still sends his reguards. Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Trying to get out of the cat town.... Posts: 5,039	^that is ****ing disgusting __________________ A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism. Reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose.

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jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	Many men have tried to eat their instruments but you have to have a rib removed to accomplish this task. __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”

09-16-2012, 09:42 PM	#8 (permalink)
Electrophonic Tonic Your Ad Here Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: The Twilight Zone Posts: 876	I have a feeling this is some urban legend/smear campaign that came from Don Draper dads in the 1950's who told this to their kids to keep them away from "the rock and/or roll music". It certainly plays into the 'starving artist' theme that you hear about with the modernist artists who made art that was not acceptable to the masses at the time.

09-17-2012, 02:08 PM	#9 (permalink)
Insane Guest Music Addict Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: CA Posts: 1,322	Swallowed a piece of a guitar pick once that I was chewing, felt like it cut the back of my throat, wasn't even that hungry though.