[HANASHIR:13827] Re: No Strings Attached!

[Marti Nerenstone <mnerenstone...>]

I haven't either - I tried to send a message to Adrian to his e-mail 
address, and it bounced back to me

B Shapiro wrote:

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