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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.
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| 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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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!
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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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| Audiences can be so picky. It's not like you were spitting it on the floor. |
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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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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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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. ;)
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Location: New Orleans | Now what the heck does that glove really sound like, I wonder... |
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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.
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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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Location: NJ | I have not had trouble with my fingertips since I started back in the 2nd grade |
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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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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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Location: Boise, Idaho | So, Al, are you going to tell us what you started doing in the second grade? |
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Location: New Orleans | LMAO :D |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Whatever it was it doesn't hurt his fingertips. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | T'was when he started wiring his addition.... |
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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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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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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I am practicing SOOOOO much restraint over that one Crusty... |
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Location: Midland, MI | I say...let 'er rip! :D |
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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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Location: New Orleans | No, Jeff, NOOOOO! |
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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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shredding... No, Shredded!
