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LeStrange1 |
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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? | ||
schroeder |
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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. | ||
LeStrange1 |
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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! | ||
fillhixx |
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Joined: November 2005 Posts: 4817 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. | ||
schroeder |
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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. | ||
an4340 |
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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. | ||
cliff |
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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: | ||
LeStrange1 |
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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 | ||
LeStrange1 |
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Joined: February 2005 Posts: 253 Location: New Orleans | Now what the heck does that glove really sound like, I wonder... | ||
Styll |
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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 | ||
cliff |
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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?? | ||
alpep |
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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 | ||
Tommy M. |
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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. | ||
stephent28 |
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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. | ||
Mark in Boise |
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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? | ||
LeStrange1 |
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Joined: February 2005 Posts: 253 Location: New Orleans | LMAO :D | ||
Beal |
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Joined: January 2002 Posts: 14127 Location: 6 String Ranch | Whatever it was it doesn't hurt his fingertips. | ||
Jeff W. |
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Joined: November 2003 Posts: 11039 Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | T'was when he started wiring his addition.... | ||
cruster |
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Joined: May 2004 Posts: 2850 Location: Midland, MI | Originally posted by alpep: 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?I have not had trouble with my fingertips since I started back in the 2nd grade | ||
cruster |
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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. | ||
Jeff W. |
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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... | ||
cruster |
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Joined: May 2004 Posts: 2850 Location: Midland, MI | I say...let 'er rip! :D | ||
LeStrange1 |
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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! | ||
LeStrange1 |
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Joined: February 2005 Posts: 253 Location: New Orleans | No, Jeff, NOOOOO! | ||
Jeff W. |
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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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