Re: GAS
- From: "ptooner" <someguy@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 23:34:46 -0400
"Benj" <bjacoby@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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ptooner wrote:
Excellent advice, Benj, thanks. Yeah, I've considered the "Final
Solution".
;-) If I should go that way, though, I feel like there would be no
turning
back.
Yeah, that's about it. Though I did start that way so there is turning
away, which I did interestingly enough, for your reasons: Got really
tired of lugging a doghouse, amp and 3 X 12 in my VW BUG!!! Geeze,
worse than drums!
Damn, it MUST have been a convertible. ;-) I did discover that if I
recline the passenger seat as far as possible I can get my bass in my
Crossfire. No way on an amp or cabinet though.
Anyway, at some
point I think I'll wind up standing there beside the damn thing with a
big
grin on my face but I hope to put it off for a while. Partly because I
have
been told it really chews up your right hand. Is that true anyone??
It was true for me for a few years! (both the big grin part and the
hand-chew part) Like many I had a huge roll of tape in the gig bag.
But wash my mouth out with soap, the answer is that "it's all in the
fingers"!!! After a while I got my technique down and finger chews
disappeared and never came back. Of course, I haven't played upright
for years (except a few quick numbers here and there for fun) so it is
of interest to me as well if the old blister etc. problems are really
gone or I have to re-learn technique all over again?
Benj
I have seen regular upright players with the tape thing happening a lot. It
seems odd that a flat wound string would be that hard on the picking hands,
but apparently it is the case.
Gerry
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