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Joined: February 2005 Posts: 253
Location: New Orleans | Have you ever played your guitar so much in one event that it rendered your fingertips UNTOUCHABLE? I have flames coming from my fingertips, I swear I'm about to go soak them in ice. :( My callouses only stood 4 hours of playing and I then pushed it another half hour and now they're totally useless today.
Is there a quick fix so I can play again tonight? Please? |
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Joined: November 2004 Posts: 4413
| Cocaine/novocaine/Jack Daniels/morphine. You get my drift.
If you can numb them enough to get the gig started then adrenalin will get you through the rest. Use lighter strings. 4 1/2 hours isn't a lot. |
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Joined: February 2005 Posts: 253
Location: New Orleans | Yep, I have to change the strings today. Um, but I do think it was Seagrams 7 that got me to this point in the 1st place!
Whew! |
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Joined: November 2005 Posts: 4820
Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Option 5:
Pull your wisdom teeth and go play while stoned on 292s.
Worked for me once when I got a last minute replacement call years ago. Apparently I played quite well, though spitting blood in a bucket all night creeped out a few people. |
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Joined: November 2004 Posts: 4413
| Audiences can be so picky. It's not like you were spitting it on the floor. |
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Joined: May 2003 Posts: 4389
Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | YES, drinking helps me solve my problems, r problems. sdfj Hicup.
Sounds like that character from the Simpsons: Bleeding Gums Murphy.
Also, if you saw the last waltz, Robertson describes meeting an old blues guy who spits out blood. A harmonica player I believe. |
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Joined: March 2002 Posts: 14842
Location: NJ | Pull a "Ted Hawkins" . . .
. . . tune to an open chord and just barre it with your leather-gloved left hand:
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Joined: February 2005 Posts: 253
Location: New Orleans | Hey, last night was a belated New Years get together. I hadn't jammed with my brother-in-laws band in over 3 weeks OR practiced. My entire household has been riddled with some evil flu virus for over a week and a half now and that rare alcohol delving threw that "I think I'm dying" feeling clean out the window!
It was a blast and for some reason I kept thinking of all of you here at the OFC. (Wished some of y'all were here, even though I haven't met ANY of ya.)
I'm just sitting here with my fingers in a bag of iced water, smiling anyway. Ha~ only ONE fingertip hurts now. ;)
LeStranger |
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Joined: February 2005 Posts: 253
Location: New Orleans | Now what the heck does that glove really sound like, I wonder... |
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Joined: November 2004 Posts: 382
Location: USA | when I first started playing...I would play until my fingers would literally bleed...
my fingers got to the point where I could run them right down the strings and they would go right down the grooves withhout popping out...
I then tried thin gloves...but gave that idea up...
my fingertips are gone..nothing but solid rock hard calices on top of calices now.
http://www.myspace.com/styllheartandsoul |
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Joined: March 2002 Posts: 14842
Location: NJ | ". . Now what the heck does that glove really sound like, I wonder..."
I'd recommend y'pick up a copy of Ted's "The Next Hundred Years" (hard to come by, but available on CD). Does an absolutely beautiful, soulful rendition of Fogerty's "Long As I Can See the Light".
Any of you SoCal guys ever catch Ted when he used to busk on VeniceBeach?? |
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Joined: December 2001 Posts: 10581
Location: NJ | I have not had trouble with my fingertips since I started back in the 2nd grade |
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Joined: January 2004 Posts: 627
Location: Cherry Hill, NJ | I've only done my long stints on solid body electrics, and even then, after 4 hours, my fingers would pain. Anytime I play for a long period, I usually finger chords in different positions, and change the guitar, every so often. It does minimize sore fingers. |
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Joined: April 2004 Posts: 13303
Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Another really great Ted Hawkins album is "The Final Tour" which is live in what appears to be a small club. Great stuff and like Cliff mentioned, "Long As I Can See the Light" is probably the best version of this song ever done. |
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Joined: March 2005 Posts: 12750
Location: Boise, Idaho | So, Al, are you going to tell us what you started doing in the second grade? |
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Joined: February 2005 Posts: 253
Location: New Orleans | LMAO :D |
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Joined: January 2002 Posts: 14127
Location: 6 String Ranch | Whatever it was it doesn't hurt his fingertips. |
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Joined: November 2003 Posts: 11039
Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | T'was when he started wiring his addition.... |
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Joined: May 2004 Posts: 2850
Location: Midland, MI | Originally posted by alpep:
I have not had trouble with my fingertips since I started back in the 2nd grade Are we all going to have to wait ten years to attend your commencement, or do you think they'll skip you ahead a couple years? |
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Joined: May 2004 Posts: 2850
Location: Midland, MI | LeStrange1, there is an ointment that certain tennis players I know use to help build up callouses. I can't remember what it's called, but it's OTC in the pharmacy. I'll check and let you know if you want. |
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Joined: November 2003 Posts: 11039
Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I am practicing SOOOOO much restraint over that one Crusty... |
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Joined: May 2004 Posts: 2850
Location: Midland, MI | I say...let 'er rip! :D |
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Joined: February 2005 Posts: 253
Location: New Orleans | OMG, Jeff, Go head!
Y'all are G'dang CRAZY, alright??? I'm off to locate Ted's "The Next Hundred Years"...I gotta hear this guy soon. I'm tryin' to be all serious, I am. Ahem...
As far as for playing with thin or rubber or latex gloves...those things would just bind all the hell up and...stuff.
What? There's an ointment? Tonight, I WANT it. Yesterday and tomorrow, I'd be too VAIN. I've never complained. Know what? I'm gonna gig tonight in hellfire after prolly about an hour but I WILL NOT STOP. Oh, man. You don't know how bad I'd love to hit the gathering with you guys! |
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Joined: February 2005 Posts: 253
Location: New Orleans | No, Jeff, NOOOOO! |
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Joined: November 2003 Posts: 11039
Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | ...timing is everything...and the moment is past...
let's just say it had something to do with Ms. Kournikova and Fuzzy Balls.... |
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Joined: May 2004 Posts: 2850
Location: Midland, MI | Originally posted by Jeff W.:
...Fuzzy Balls.... Is he that old golfer dude from the Senior Tour that was doing like Cadillac ads or something? |
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Joined: November 2005 Posts: 82
Location: Michigan | if you ripped yer callouses off a thin coat of super glue works pretty well on the tips of your fingers. ive done that a few times. for the pain, ambesol works pretty good, and if yer stiff in your knuckles, try some rubbing alchohol. Rubbing it on yer affected spots though, not drinking it :) i rarely have sore fingers, but since my job requires heavy lifting i know how to freshen my hands after a day of work , to get ready for a few hours with my guitar. |
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Joined: May 2004 Posts: 2850
Location: Midland, MI | LeStrange1, the stuff is 'tincture of benzoin.' Supposed to promote the corticatization of skin without the development of blood listers underneath the calluses. Or, so I've been told. Maybe Dr. Phil can chime in? |
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Joined: March 2005 Posts: 12750
Location: Boise, Idaho | I heard that Rene Richards used that ointment. |
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Joined: March 2002 Posts: 14842
Location: NJ | . . . as does Witko . . |
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Joined: June 2002 Posts: 6194
Location: Phoenix AZ | Nope. I use a spray on called "Tough Skin". It's like aftermarket calluses. Dave
Btw, it's DOCTOR Rene Richards |
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Joined: May 2004 Posts: 2850
Location: Midland, MI | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
I heard that Rene Richards used that ointment. Wasn't she the Governor of Texas or the Secretary of State in Florida? I can never keep them all straight.
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Joined: March 2002 Posts: 14842
Location: NJ | Makes no difference . . . they both share a brain . . . |
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Joined: November 2003 Posts: 11039
Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Anne Uumellmahaye |
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Joined: March 2005 Posts: 12750
Location: Boise, Idaho | With the Rene Richards I was thinking of, you have to use "he/she". Proved that a fair tennis playing guy could be a good tennis gal. Also proved you don't need balls to play tennis. Your turn. |
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Joined: May 2004 Posts: 2850
Location: Midland, MI | Based on your post, I gather that all one needs for good tennis action is all one needs for good Ovation action.
(wait for it)
(here it comes)
A good shim?
(if I have to explain that...) |
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