pstamler
Well-known member
Hi folks:
Well, I was dumb. I have a big two-night playing gig this weekend (2 hours Friday, 3 hours Saturday). So I was in the kitchen and first cut my left index finger tip with the vegetable peeler. Not quite on the tip where it hits the strings but a little to the side; anyway it bled a lot and was reluctant to stop. Finally made it quit with some really tight Band-Aids and a little gaff-tape for tightness.
Then, to an injury to injury, I cut the tip of my middle finger with the knife while chopping an onion. Straight cut, near the tip, which stopped bleeding more quickly.
I peroxided eveything and put on Band-Aids. But -- how the $*&# am I going to play the gigs? I got some special fingertip Band-Aids, and while I was discussing the matter with the friendly pharmacist, a lady sitting waiting for her prescription joined the conversation and recommended making a pad of moleskins over the Band-Aids, on the tips of the fingers. She's a percussion player, not a guitar player, but it sounds like good advice to me.
So -- any suggestions? I can't cancel the gigs or get a sub -- not possible or desirable. I was planning to play mostly acoustic but it looks like more of a Telecaster weekend after this.
Any and all suggestions welcomed!
Peace,
Paul (trying to find a way to kick myself)
(Oh, the lady in the pharmacy also had some other advice: don't cook on the day before a gig. She's right, too.)
Well, I was dumb. I have a big two-night playing gig this weekend (2 hours Friday, 3 hours Saturday). So I was in the kitchen and first cut my left index finger tip with the vegetable peeler. Not quite on the tip where it hits the strings but a little to the side; anyway it bled a lot and was reluctant to stop. Finally made it quit with some really tight Band-Aids and a little gaff-tape for tightness.
Then, to an injury to injury, I cut the tip of my middle finger with the knife while chopping an onion. Straight cut, near the tip, which stopped bleeding more quickly.
I peroxided eveything and put on Band-Aids. But -- how the $*&# am I going to play the gigs? I got some special fingertip Band-Aids, and while I was discussing the matter with the friendly pharmacist, a lady sitting waiting for her prescription joined the conversation and recommended making a pad of moleskins over the Band-Aids, on the tips of the fingers. She's a percussion player, not a guitar player, but it sounds like good advice to me.
So -- any suggestions? I can't cancel the gigs or get a sub -- not possible or desirable. I was planning to play mostly acoustic but it looks like more of a Telecaster weekend after this.
Any and all suggestions welcomed!
Peace,
Paul (trying to find a way to kick myself)
(Oh, the lady in the pharmacy also had some other advice: don't cook on the day before a gig. She's right, too.)