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The funny part is that this is the same finger I sliced in a
v-cut in 1977 while sliding it up the string just too damned fast. The
blood! At the hospital it was interesting as we were all in a semi-altered
state and when the intern asked me how it happened: "It was my guitar,
man!" Alas.
As a person born two days after Christmas, I've decided that
everyday is my birthday. :)
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Sent: Tuesday, 13 June, 2006 19:09
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Subject: Re: Way OT: EM fingers!
Let's see:
Well... there's much more to slide than
blues! George Harrison, that guy from India who recorded with Ry Cooder...
lots of folks. The only limit is our imaginations... and...
TIME!
Probably it is a good idea to not play on it till the doc
tells you it's okay. I did that once when I'd cut my finger with a power saw.
Did a gig one night and the finger literally exploded blood all over my guitar
and just missed the folks in the front of the audience. You can imagine just
how much the audience loved THAT! I re-bandaged it and kept on playing... but
it took a while to heal because of that.
Time is fleeting - and the
other side of the money coin is, so is money! And it is only money so,
if it's your BIRTHDAY... then it may indeed be time to indulge! I'm certainly
NOT one to talk about self restraint.... but I am trying to
learn.
peace
richard sales
glassWing farm and
studio
vancouver island, b.c.
800.545.6846
250.752.4816
www.glassWing.com
www.richardsales.com
www.hayleysales.com
www.blueberryfieldsfarm.com
On
13-Jun-06, at 8:34 AM, Stephen Goodman wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: Richard Sales
To:
Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Sent: Tuesday, 13 June, 2006 16:12
PM
Subject: Re: Way OT: EM fingers!
The woman who's husband I am... (PC anyone?!) crushed her
finger with a sledge hammer a few years ago. Lost all the feeling in the
finger. She smashed it much worse than you, I can guarantee it - the whole
finger was wide open - gruesome.
Yep, I had to clean up
the blood before we left for the hospital, it was all over the new stone
tiles and they hadn't been sealed yet!
Anyhow, after a year or so of trying everything else, the
feeling and a lot of the motion was restored with
acupuncture.
I'll ask my acupuncturist about this. She's
done wonders for blood pressure and circulation around injured bits
before!
I think the carpenter might be close to right as far as
healing time. But the rest of your fingers work, eh? Remember Django
Reinhart?
Er, while I've been tempted by a very fast
right hand with the idea of re-learning to play Jimi-style, such is a hurdle
I'll deal with only if I have to. The middle finger's my main/center point
(self-taught, played by ear since '71). I'll tell ya it's a real temptation
just to play after going to see Fripp today. I knew it would be a little
painful thinking about playing after coming home but I really don't want to
screw up what could be healing interior-wise just by mistakenly using that
finger.
Time to learn how to play slide guitar?
Too
late. Started using a slide in the early 80s, long before learning anything
about Blues music. Been thinking about it, frankly.
My own take on money, after having spent huge piles of it, is
that TIME is more important than equipment.
Ah yes, but
having had no disposable income - much less income - for over six years, and
seeing my 50th birthday coming up in December, I've decided that time is
something that's, as Riff Raff put it, "fleeting".
In preparation for
unleashing myself on the public again, I need to find a good, inexpensive
guitar repair person to fix a grounding error in ol' Cthulhu. In London,
someone I can see face-to-face and trust with my beloved tool. After several
years of dealing with workmen in London I only use good personal
references.
Some of the most riveting, entertaining, soul stirring and
wonderful guitarists I've ever known just used a Tele and amp... or, even
simpler, one acoustic guitar. Just my $.02
I'll try to
keep the bar high then, as all I've got is my ol' strat and an Oscar Schmidt
acoustic. :) Yes, here's to working within limitations to achieve a lovely
result!
Thx!
Good luck
richard sales
glassWing farm
and studio
vancouver island,
b.c.
800.545.6846
250.752.4816
www.glassWing.com
www.richardsales.com
www.hayleysales.com
www.blueberryfieldsfarm.com
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13-Jun-06, at 1:41 AM, Stephen Goodman wrote:
Okay, I knew I'd
ask about this but now have no choice from context alone...
The rig
has been down for several months given massive works on the house. On a
weekend three or so weeks ago when I'd just had it and wanted to play no
matter what, I stupidly crushed the end of my left middle finger between two
big flagstones around 3 weeks ago, splitting the end like a melon. Didn't
break anything (x-ray check) and it wasn't a center-on hit so I kept the
nail. I can however feel the hard bit inside where the scar tissue is
forming. I massage the tip most of the time, gently, and the feeling in the
tip still hasn't come back. I've been told by a carpenter who says he did
something similar that it won't come back for as much as three months.
Obviously this effects playing - and even if one excludes the nuances one
obtains through good feeling-control, the hazard of not feeling the
fingertip becomes one of finger damage through sense ignorance.
I was
itching to play before this happened, and have been having lucid dreams
about playing since a week after the accident. Needless to say here is an
illustration as to why one should not hesitate before going at it. I'm going
to come into just a little bit of money via my late mum-in-law sometime in
the next month or so, and have decided that [a] life is frigging short, and
[b] I'm going to get a small, efficient amp system for performance purposes
and rent a couple of halls in the London area when this damned finger gets
better.
So, guitarists on the list: How long will it take for this to
come back? Thx in advance.
S.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Shirkey" <jcshirke@midway.uchicago.edu>
To:
<Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Tuesday, 13 June, 2006
02:04 AM
Subject: Re: Way OT: EM fingers!
...
but can you imagine how you could use this to feel your way around a
keyboard, or a guitar.... your house?
Actually, no. :) How would
this help someone make music?
I currently treat a fractured bone in
my foot with EM waves 10 hours a day. I'm not sure that's something I'd want
to feel.
Jeff
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