Guitar's top 5 onstage screw-ups!

Starring Pete Townshend, Synyster Gates and more

Nick Cracknell, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 5:19 pm UTC

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If you screw up, all of these people are waiting to point and laugh at you. Image: © Roger Ressmeyer/Corbis

Some guitarists can stand still on stage. This sorry collection of clips proves that those who do might just end up being the ones who live longest...

1. Pete Townsend makes an enemy of gravity (0:01)

The Who guitarist enjoys a bit of a tumble at the Royal Albert Hall in 2002. To be fair on the old Pinball Wizard, he pulls it off pretty coolly by allowing a lucky audience member to windmill his Strat before clambering back onstage and rocking on...

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MrGawain

18 weeks ago.

I was looking on Youtube the other day and came across this: A James Brown concert, sometime in the 80's, and he calls up Jacko. Then Jacko doesn't want to perform any more, so he says to JB that Prince is in the crowd. Prince spends a lot of time doing nothing, then decides he's bored and wants to go home, making an exit at around 4.45 that really steals the show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CoxNzOOoQU

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