why it's fun to play in Second Life, reason #73

Last night, mid set, everyone gets a notice that the sim is restarting in 5 minutes. Third time that's happened at this particular gig, so we said we were going down with the ship, Titanic style. Played a few more songs, 5 minutes dragged out to 10, then it finally says going down in 60 seconds. Two griefers had shown up by this point and were pummelling me and Mackenzie with a baseball bat and machine gun as we played. The remaining audience rushed the stage to protect us. Total chaos. Ran out of song so I start going off in a guitar noodle that I figured needed to last about 30 seconds. 2 minutes later I am still wanking, totally out of ideas, the damn thing wouldn't crash. I ended up taking off my headphones and going over to my amp for an extended feedback session, finally resorting to morse code feedback SOS using the pickup switch, banging on the guitar with my fist, and screaming at the Lindens into my bridge pickup.

Felt pretty punk rock about the whole thing.