For the curious

[bzarcher]

First Rock Band instrument broken - Guitar (strum whammy bar broke inside the guitar body), 17 days after purchase. :D

Edit: Whoops, not strum bar - whammy bar.

Comments

[ardaniel]

grahamwest took one of his apart and posted the autopsy findings on his LJ. It was pretty gruesomely low-quality in there.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

If Alex hadn't already just opened an RMA for the guitar, I'd so be doing that. I'm willing to bet one of the metal blocks at the end of the strum bar broke off.

Drums, so far, are OK once I replaced the sticks with something balanced.

I'm also -highly- amused that despite Alex's continual bellyaching that I was playing the drums "too hard", he broke the guitar first. :>

[remotesensing.livejournal.com]

One of my students had two instruments DOA at purchase.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm almost impressed that stuff's survived as long as it did.

[flaggerx.livejournal.com]

Where you jamming to twang bar king Adrian Belew?

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

I believe Alex cracked it on "Detroit Rock City".

[buschap.livejournal.com]

Dig me!

But don't bury me.