[HANASHIR:13826] Re: No Strings Attached!

[B Shapiro <bgolfin...>]

i haven't gotten any messages in the past few days, is the list down?
just wondering


On Monday, March 3, 2003, at 08:03  PM, Jeff Klepper wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> This past weekend as I was scurrying through the x-rays at Logan 
> Airport on
> the way to a gig, I was stopped and questioned about my guitar by one 
> of the
> new Federal screeners.  He rifled through my gig bag and took out all 
> my
> extra guitar strings!  Said they were a potential weapon.  I always 
> knew
> that music was a weapon of peace (upon Woody Guthrie's guitar was 
> written:
> "This Machine Kills Fascists" and Pete Seeger's banjo says: "This 
> machine
> surrounds hate and forces it to surrender" - but I digress...) but 
> there was
> no changing this man's mind.  He did, however, say that the strings 
> which
> were on the guitar could stay on.  Whew!  Close call.
>
> I tried to retrieve the strings he took when I returned, but no dice.  
> I
> complained to the supervisor.  He told me that someone big and strong 
> could
> have TAKEN MY GUITAR STRINGS FROM ME AND USED THEM TO STRANGLE 
> SOMEBODY.
> Well, now we can all sleep better knowing that our chance of being 
> strangled
> by a guitar string on a plane is vastly reduced.
>
> Anyway, my friends in gig-land, to prevent this from happening to you, 
> do
> the following:
>
> Pack your extra strings in checked luggage.   Or, carry with you a 
> thick
> self addressed envelope, scotch tape and plenty of stamps, so that if 
> you
> get busted for guitar strings, (or scissors or nail clipper) you can 
> mail
> them back to yourself at the airport.
>
> Ever yours from gig-land,
> jeff klepper
>
>
>

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