Kendrick Amp guy electrocutes himself in demo video

[oxide112]

I'm glad i always DOUBLE check before sticking my finger into amplifiers :P

[emerald876]

WACKY WAVING INFLATABLE ARM FLAILING TUBE MAN!

[sixstringmat]

THIS IS A JOKE...he knows exactly what hes doing

[rweghg3]

This is a good example of why you should never take a piss on an electric fence.... : )

[ricotinez]

I didn't know Eddie Van Halen did instructional videos!

[RamrockMansJukebox]

As he is clearly still alive at the end of the clip, I'm going to suggest that he did not get electrocuted but merely shocked.

[lfscrazy]

"Probably ought to turn it off for that" Yes, it certainly looks like it!

[PAUL1UZ5]

Besides, he said 'such as this one' and touched it.

[PAUL1UZ5]

Well, i got shocked with ~220V once, but i was touching the wires with only one hand, with my two fingers next to eachother touching the wires. Did electricity just go through other finger?

[sixstringmat]

@PAUL1UZ5 yes. if it went across your chest, the current would have been massive and could have stopped your heart.

[rweghg3]

Dealing with electricity is not something to laugh & joke about..It is very dangerous & can be deadly, having said that i can't help laughing my ass off until tears run from my eyes when i watch this video,i have it saved in my favorites so that when i have a bad day i can watch it, the damn thing is hysterically funny...

[Jeepjones85]

That was prolly a joke I bet he just touch one of the wires going to the guitar plug lol

[glueforall]

Even the most experienced guys make stupid mistakes. And not all of them are filming instructional videos at the same time. Give the damn guy a break.

[ihventura]

That could have been his death.

[1952Telecaster]

yeah, like I'm gunna take advice from this ass hat

[sttyves]

just kidding ...hes looking for the inputs leads before check it out...hes not touching the filter caps..they are at the other end of the amp.....

lol funny guy

[dyazRO]

I still believe this is just touching the hot input(tip not sleeve) lead....but...whatever.

[f14birdy]

I shocked myself on my amp when I was changing a fuse. My arm was numb for hours.

Shits hilarious.... =(

[charlodius]

Um, yea, we know he didn't die. If he touched a loaded cap, he could have died. This video is not funny at all.

[buddhafollower]

i cannot forget it

[buddhafollower]

yeah, i know the sensation

[charlodius]

Actually not funny. He almost died.

[ibanezman007]

@charlodius No he didn't. He was fortunate enough to touch AC power instead of DC. Or he did touch DC power but it wasn't strong enough to draw him in and make him slowly burn to death. DC power is MUCH more dangerous than AC! He was fine!

[whiskeyify]

probably he touched a capacitor...one time that happened to my co-worker...the charge was so strong it threw him up against the wall...lucky he wasn't hurt.

[berrypossum]

I wanna see him discharge a cap with his hand, he's so good, poo.

[mushroomscouser]

Gerald is the man no quess. One day, I am gonna have one of his sweet little amps....yes yes yes one day....I can hear it now...

[jclev99]

nothing funny bout this, there is enough power to kill someone with tube amp. Very unsafe

[ippittybippitty]

This guy's a fancy dresser.

[fpgrind]

This is a blooper on what could happen if you're not careful from his instructional Amp repair DVD. Rest assured Gerald KNOWS what he's doing. He builds Kendrick amps which are some of the sweetest amps made.

[purrblesoft]

the word "electrocute" means to kill by electricity. while there was electricity involved, old George seems to have survived his little shock.

[florickwar2]

metalica- ride the lightning

[3580a]

It was just a joke... He touched the input jack which is what caused the buzz... Relax, he knows what he's doing...

[florickwar2]

hand in your pocket . and go for the buzz

[bvried]

@florickwar2 The buzz wouldn't hurt if you had your hand in your pocket, because there would be no voltage difference. :/ Unless, he wasn't wearing some rubber soled shoes or something.

[jeffboyardi]

that was a joke at the end of one of his videos, he didn't get zapped

[EJG5150]

@jeffboyardi this was no joke I've gotten electrocuted by an amp before but not like this I was electrocuted by a unsoldered ground and when i touched the chassis i was electrocuted. I know what it's like

[guir0]

Just press 7

[Jerrysway]

He got an AC shock, that just pushed him back. Its the DC shocks that grab you and dont let go till your ticker stops, lol.

[Satchmoeddie]

Is it discharged now? Try again to be sure! I prefer a hunk of frayed welding cable to my fingers, and then some 5W 1K resistors shunted to ground so other caps do not recharge the filter caps, or so they do not just recharge on their own. Its happened to me after reforming a lovely batch of old caps. I discharged through a galvanometer, then shorted it & set it aside only to be bit 15 minutes later. Happens to the best of us! I'd have been cursing. GW kept his cool. KUDOS man!

[SuperQuin2010]

press 22

[tubeorvalve]

What a joke. Shouldnt smoke pot before servicing an amp. Makes this profession and us real technicians look like a bunch of deuche bags really...

[dalstar925]

@tubeorvalve well this comment makes you look like a douche bag really...

[tubeorvalve]

@dalstar925 and why is that? Enlighten us all. This Gerald Weber is clearly an idiot.

[dalstar925]

@tubeorvalve since when does coming off like a smug prick not make someone look like a douche bag? clearly the video was put up for entertainment purposes...are you "enlightened" yet?

[JamesNiskyMusic]

@tubeorvalve You appear unintelligent because you didn't manage to spell or punctuate properly and your sentences contain grammatical errors. Thanks for providing the proof that you are a moron in the same paragraph in which you insulted another person's intelligence. Your comment indicated that you aren't intelligent due to its errors, and because you were attempting to insult another person's intelligence while demonstrating how unintelligent you are it makes you look like a douche-bag!

[dalstar925]

@JamesNiskyMusic normally i'm not one to bash someone on their grammar or punctuation since i clearly don't care to use proper grammar myself on youtube...but i agree...what a douche

[tubeorvalve]

@JamesNiskyMusic Thank you very much. My native language isnt English you know? I'm glad there are bright intelligent persons like you to correct me. Still... that guy is an idiot much like yourself.

[InterspeciesErotica7]

He was just scared, not electrocuted. The other guys pranked him

[InterspeciesErotica7]

It's not the volts that kill you, it's the amps

[nekocyann1]

Oh ! 300VDC ! !

[Neurosisistronaut]

LMAO!!!

[dyazRO]

Almost the same tone I get when I touch the hot input wire in my little amp(dont worry less than 10 volts wont hurt anybody).But.....I dont know.. maybe Im wrong

[Kramnosnits]

Staged. Don't be gullable people. 

[deemilieu]

Is that Gerald Weber? He seems to be having a shockingly good time with it!

[blockstar2013]

nice tone

[cerfew601]

It really really looks like he was feeling around for something to make a sound. And it sounds just like an input jack. I'm sure this was staged

[yargnad]

It would have been funnier if it were DC power.

[tgbluesky]

He discharged that amp all right! Way to go Gerald!

[dwade277]

I'm gonna' buy his video just cause this made me laugh so hard!

[SonicProvocateur]

Note to self: Do not let Gerald Weber service my amps.

[Habanaloco]

warning:Drinking before repair is not recommended:))

[cumulo25]

Same exact thing happened to me when turning on a table lamp. you can hear the buzz and feel your hand shaking.

[yernickle]

kindah lke dat cattle prod

[ShrCanIt]

Be careful with electricity! =D

[KJGordon05]

that should be on Tosh.0

[ellum68]

Hey, a 5F8A Twin! I just finished building one last week. No, he did not "electrocute" himself. Looks like he touched one of the input jacks. My guess is this was staged.

[mqmqmwmw]

That's nothing, I had been tortured with an electric shock baton in 1978 Argentine military dictatorship

[jmcinvale]

He got his ass lit up. Can't say it hasn't happened to me.

[zzmook]

Read any amp repair book - while the chassis is under power or before having confirmed that caps are drained, they recommend one hand in a pocket or behind your back - the reason being because you are most at risk from making a connection from hand to hand, passing deadly levels of current past the electrical works that keep your heart pumping (the sino-atrial node). Your (very incorrect) definition of what ground means electrically tells me you have no business being inside an amp.

[slemternce]

What an idiot

[androidbustika]

You mean shocked. Electrocution is death by electricity haha!

[choppaluvntrav]

Haha.....thats funny but, I think it was just a joke.

[tcstratman]

I zapped myself years ago repairing a FAX machine. It was nasty.

[diesect33]

yeah i never got zapped by my amps but, i got stuck to a Charvel's strings and the rim of a faulty lamp. i had steady current thru my body for about 5 minutes until there was a break in the current and i was released. I didn't touch the charvel for 6 moths and i threw the lamp out my second story window.

[BlueBarrier782]

@diesect33 For 5 whole minutes? God damn...

[diesect33]

@BlueBarrier782 yeah i know...it felt like an eternity. i remember thinking about wether that was going to be how i died and what my wife would do. when i got "released" i unplugged the lamp and drop kicked it out my second story window. i was shaky for a week and a half after that too. I didn't touch that guitar for about half a year since i have others.

[TheLedGuitarist]

has anybody ever electrocuted themselves on the flash of a camera? its not nice

[LAMF1968]

His smile at the end is priceless !

[jandean61]

did he die ?

[Mantis2024]

To get the SAME noise, plug your guitar cable into the amp, crank it up, and touch the other end of the cable. lol!!!

[demonufo]

SETUP!

[rockerteen8300]

WTF

AC knocks the person back.

DC draws the person in.

[paulhb]

So, he was right.

[LedZeppelinisgod100]

hahhahahahahahhahaha

[graveljaw]

If I remember correctly, he does get hit on the video at one point. But its not funny and there's no laughing.

[OnlyVees]

electrocution implies death. He didn't die. He was shocked.

[greenfish88]

classic! doesn't get much better than this.

[RockAddict311]

lol

[JimiPlaysWoodstock]

Just for the record. This is taken from the bloober section , in this case he was deliberately joking. Noobs steer clear. Don't try this at home.

[yungskiz]

1996 computer monitor, acer-we were taking it apart, dont ask y, i know its 2010, i know what a flat screen is, we warned him about the discharge, it hasnt been plugged in for over 12 years-he got one helluva shock

[mattplanes2]

i love how he just comes back smiling. nothing to see here folks, move along. That's all he's got running through his head at that point. hahaha. priceless.

[oozat]

That was a a proper hippy jump, shame he didn't say "whoa maaaaan!" :)

[FingerLickinGravy67]

tightwads huh, cant just take a joke laugh

[beagleguitar]

Y'all are idiots. This was a joke. The sound is someone touching a guitar cable. If he were really shocked, he wouldn't have come back into the frame laughing directly afterward.

I have this DVD and have seen this, and he's not really being shocked y'all. Come on.

[mstabspeople]

@beagleguitar still funny lol

[Breastfan09]

Self proclaimed Tube Amp King. What a jerk.

[Breastfan09]

Gerald Weber befriended a brain at THD amps to pick his brain then started his own company and proclaimed himself "The Tube Amp King". Gimmee a break jerk!

[JohnnyTsunami68]

Never work on electronics after consuming copious amount of 'da kine, brah!

[solerso68]

"anybody know how to put a fucking tube in!? " that guy has to be a real joy to work for.

[HawkStudio]

This cracks me up every time I see it, and yes, it happens to all of us. The best demonstration here is a rule I usually follow and that you should never be talking to anyone while working on an amp, or get distracted in any other way.

yes...even pros get zapped from time to time.

[lidesnowi]

Give my some juice! I need a hit!

[jeabo0adhd]

It happens to the best of us. Hmp-hehehehe

[jcoopercam]

What an idiot...

[ryanolson77]

he didn't even get shocked, it was the equivalent to touching the tip of your guitar cable.

[solerso68]

@ryanolson77

yeah the noise startled him, cause he knows there could be about 600 volts for him in that amp.

[metalhobo46631]

I'm sure this has been said a million times already but I don't feel like reading: electrocution implies death, hence the electroCUTE (like exeCUTE). He was shocked, not electrocuted.

[dimeguitarsrock]

Negatively Grounded : The negative side of every component in the amp uses the case of the amp as a return path.

early on they solved this by making all exterior components non conductive and later they solved it by seperating the ground circuit and going to a 3 wire plug.

if youve got or recently inherited one of these old amps, please listen, it might save your life.

[dimeguitarsrock]

but if you want to get innocently killed quick, thats the way to do it.

did you ever wonder why so many musicians from the 60s looked buzzed all the time?

thats why.

[dimeguitarsrock]

it doesnt have anything to do with left hand or right hand.

if you get a current going through both hands thats where the danger lies.

ive got a 1963 fender amp i inherited and its negatively grounded to the case.

if your stupid enough to touch the amp and your guitar strings, you get all of the juice that the wall socket can provide going right through you.

funny thing is that theirs nothing wrong with the amp.

thats just how it was built.

[beagleguitar]

If "you're" stupid enough to believe that there's nothing wrong with that, then you don't deserve a 1963 amp. That problem should be fixed immediately.

[zzmook]

@beagleguitar - this is why you discharge caps, getting shocked by one does not infer that there's anything wrong with the amp or the cap. They retain electricity, that's their job - retain charge and distribute power downstream evenly.

He only touched the amp with one hand - he could have been burned but not killed by that. In order to get killed you need to make the connection across both hands, with your heart in the middle. Then you have a real problem.

[beagleguitar]

@zzmook I understand about discharging caps. My statement above that begins with "If you're stupid enough..." was aimed at dimeguitarsrock's statement about the 63 Fender Champ amp that will shock you if you touch the amp and guitar strings at the same time. You only need to worry about discharing caps if you're going to work inside the amp.

Regarding the Kendrick video, he was NOT shocked at all. It was a joke. I have this DVD, and this is from the outtakes section. They were playing a joke.

[numair23]

@beagleguitar I had an amp that would shock you if you held the strings and touched the amp. It has to do with 1) the grounding of the outlet and 2) the way the amplifier is grounded. It would only happen in certain outlets.

[rw5791]

@zzmook What?The current goes from your hand to GROUND,i.e. through both feet.That can stop your heart and kill you.Of course,touching the amp chassis with your other hand will kill you faster but either way the best advice is..............don't touch the amp

[Xiacro]

*hooooooooonk*

[azure0099]

I watch this once a week & it makes me laugh, it's better than my anti-depressant. I'm sure the guy knows his stuff & it's bound to happen to me one day (i like to tinker w/ G40V pignose amps).

[tracynorton]

moron needs a haircut

[roscolbar]

Lucky it was his right hand, all that juice missing the heart

[kevykev38]

No its not fake, I just tried it and it worked.

My arm is numb. I am not kidding you.

[liontone]

The proper term is "lifted."

[b24warbaby]

He looks pretty alive for just being electrocuted.

[OredhotchilipeppersO]

I hate when people use words wrong.

[NickoLps]

Its not real electricity attack,its just an example to show that it might be dangerous.

After all that is a cuttoff scene,in the real scen he do not fall behind.

The guy is very good at that job as ive seen.:)

[butterylicious]

Misuse of the word electrocute. Look it up.

[chris2002Rocklin]

If I have to tolerate "decimate", you can put up with yet another word that evolves based on common use. I bet you are one of the endless scoundrels that use it incorrectly.

[smy0003]

Hahahaha it's like a looney-toons cartoons! that's great!

[aztechmusic]

That's funny. I like the way he looks at the camera and says " Proper discharging of an amp is very important, especially an amp such as this one". I've seen guys do some pretty funny stuff especially around rookies. I bet Kendrick would be a blast to learn from.

[serviviente7]

that was pretty funny for a pro like gerald.

[desertbard]

Amplified self defense mode?

[jonnyquestjosh]

COMPLETELY FAKE!! He isn't touching any high voltage, he's touching the input jacks. There isn't a loud buzz when you get shocked, either. But there is if you touch the input jacks.

[warpigs020]

WOW!!! You're a quick one! He was just kidding around dude!

[jonnyquestjosh]

No need to be a punk, Alan. I like Gerald as much as anyone. I have bought every book and video he has put out.

But the casual watcher may not know he's plating around.

You have some guitar chops - work on your people skills, and maybe you can get in a band someday.

[wapzilla]

Don't worry folks ... no tubes were harmed in this video. And it's also safe just to watch, unless you've got a weak heart (like me!).