A metal musician shared a video on TikTok showing himself accidentally tossing a guitar at the concert photographer instead of the guitar technician.
The musician, Sullivan King, turned around on stage and flung the guitar backward at a flabbergasted photographer who froze and dodged the flying instrument.
King then held his hands up in a gesture that appeared to question why the photographer didn’t try to catch the guitar anyway, despite also holding a camera.
Watch the video, below:
0 days with out incident on the job site
“0 days without incident on the job site,” King wrote in the caption of the TikTok video.
At the end of the video, King also inserted a caption that said, “Oopsies lol.”
In the comments section, a viewer wrote, “The photographer is like ‘That wasn’t in the job description.’ Glad he’s okay though.”
“Can’t blame him tbh (yes I can he so coulda caught it),” King replied.
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However, many people were on the photographer’s side in the accidental situation.
“I believe the person who threw the really expensive guitar across the stage is ultimately responsible,” one person said.
“As a photographer I’m not dropping my camera to save the guitar,” someone else wrote in the comments.
Another photographer agreed, “He said ‘not my job,’ which to be fair, it’s not. Protect your own gear camera man!”
“As a photographer my camera is probably worth over $6,000 I’m breaking my arm before I drop it,” one photographer chimed in.
Another added, “As an event photog, i am saving my own gear because it costs more than yours lmao.”
One viewer asked if the photographer snapped any shots of the flying guitar in the moment.
“NAH HE F-N DIDN’T LOL,” the musician replied.
However, after the mishap, there was seemingly no bad blood between the musician and the photographer. In a follow-up video a few weeks after original incident, King invited the photographer on stage to try catching his guitar. This time, with plenty of notice.
“Turning my photographer into a guitar-catching king,” the video’s caption joked.
“We would like to give him [the photographer] a shot at redemption of catching a guitar,” King told the audience in the video.
The photographer successfully caught the guitar as the crowd cheered.
Replying to @blupillmusic no photographers were harmed in the smashing of this guitar
Source: Concert Photographer Dodges Guitar After Metal Musician Accidentally Throws It at Him Onstage
