This is just more strange than funny. I just started gigging again, and had a show on Thursday. Went quite well by the way. Before the show, I was getting ready to record it with my minidisc (ended up forgetting to unpause it) but I put some extra AA batteries in my pants pocket in case the minidisc ran low. So about 3/4 the way through my set, in the middle of a song, I feel a burning on my leg. Couldn't think of anything that would create heat in my pocket, so I though it might be my keys poking at me. So, still in the middle of the song, I start shaking my leg to rearange the keys or stop the pain that I was feeling. Didn't help. So when the song was done, I stood up, reached into my pocket to find 3 AA batteries hot enough to burn my fingers as I removed them and dropped them to the floor. People wondered what I was doing. Didn't seem to hurt my leg too much at the time, but when I got home and dropped trou, there was a hell of a burn on my leg the exact size of a AA battery. This was almost a week ago, and it still smarts and created a hell of a scab. A friend told me that me and my plugged in Martin completed a circuit and I was charging the batteries during my set.

So be advised, don't gig with batteries in your pocket.