ARLINGTON, TX - The second worship service at Grace Community Church on Sunday morning was all going according to plan, until one slip of a guitarist's foot sent the whole worship band off the rails. "I play in a band with some friends," guitarist Greg Johnson explains, "and I use the same pedal board with them as I do for church. I was reaching for the Memory Man, but my foot slipped and accidentally hit the Metal Muff instead. When I heard that sweet, crunchy, distorted tone, I just couldn't stop myself - I had to shred."
Witnesses say the incident happened just after the eighth chorus of Chris Tomlin's "How Great Is Our God," the song that was intended to lead into the sermon.
"I didn't really know what was happening," says Alicia White, who was only four rows back when the song veere