I had a blister on my index and middle fingers on my right hand. Last night at our show, the blister on the middle finger tore off and took some more skin with it. I didnt realize it till after the song. So i was playing on my last layer or skin. Its pretty gross. It hurt really bad once i got home and sat down finally. At the show it just kinda stung. But now....oh man.

http://img128.imageshack.us/img128/7726/dsc012755qy.th.jpg (http://img128.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc012755qy.jpg)

At least the gig went well.

doesnt look graphic but Im afraid to click on it lest there be more...nonetheless hope it ggets better

superglue...

"BAH! 'Tis but a flesh wound!"

-or-

"I ain't got time to bleed."

Its pretty gross.

THIS is gross.

http://img320.imageshack.us/img320/3018/dbslap7ar.jpg

That isn't me, but something similar happened some weeks ago while practicing rockabilly double bass slap technique with steel strings. Not that scandalous, but a generous amount of blood squirted out, anyway.

Gross!? That is so cool! Leave it on there! :bassist:

Been there, Done that.

Looks like it's a relatively small one (I've had much bigger), but it's in one of those nasty spots that you will hit all day long. Best I can say is it will get a little better every day for the next 4-5 days.

thats really not that bad. just slap a bandaid on there and your straight.



Hey Gomez, where'd you get that pic from? thats pretty sweet.

Hey Gomez, where'd you get that pic from? thats pretty sweet.

Oh, somewhere in www.rockabillybass.com. That's the best resource for all things slap DB and includes a forum about blisters, tape and pain, something very common in that technique, specially if you try to do it on steel strings, like me.

Check out these pics of a friend of mine:

http://www.toastmachine.com/cgi-bin/gallery.py?007_11-00-2003

After that, listen to the mp3s. Explains everything. :)

That sure is graphic. ;)

This is turning into a blood fetish thread! :eyebrow:

Uh... I'm just subscribing.

Check out these pics of a friend of mine:

http://www.toastmachine.com/cgi-bin/gallery.py?007_11-00-2003

After that, listen to the mp3s. Explains everything. :)

thats sum pretty awesome stuff. i liked the pics and the music samples, even tho it only played the first 19, 20 seconds of the song (at least on my computer). the band name is kinda iffy tho :smug: .

Ive had worse but not lately. Calouses are great.

I currently work in a metal shop. You cant avoid getting your hands scraped and scratched up.


Liquid bandaid is god.

Can't you use that newskin stuff? Besides, if your bass is kicking your ass, maybe you should be a drummer!

:)

That pic of the upright looks like every time I gig on guitar. The whole dropped pick in first song/keep strumming/ no flesh from the bottom of my fingernails to below my top knuckle thing always reminds me why I am a bassist.

When you play one string and everyone else has six or 88 keys or plays with all limbs, you can get pretty banged up trying to keep up.
I got a bigger amp after a bloodfest like yours.
For some reason, everyone else got quieter after that. ;)

Liquid bandaid is god.

Superglue indeed is quite handy.

Superglue indeed is quite handy.


I was refering to "NewSkin"

hopefully no one here is stupid enough to use superglue on themselves.

uhm.. I think NewSkin and Superglue are related...

Superglue is a cheap version of Cyanoacrylate ester...

New Skin and Liquid Band-aid are similar compounds...

All kick ass for the same reasons

I get those all the time...I have them on 3 of my fingers. So yeah, they sting for a few days, but than you can play again.


Edit - Btw, for the one who asked if there was someone dumb enough to superglue them selves. Hi how are you doing. lol I super glued my fingers together a few years ago. It was more a cure for being bored than playing bass. But I was younger, and dumber.

I currently work in a metal shop. You cant avoid getting your hands scraped and scratched up.


Liquid bandaid is god.

same here, what are you doing in there jobwise?

I have a constant 50 minor cuts on my hand, and usually 1 or 2 nice bleeders

I used to get blisters a lot, when my band was practicing 3 or 4 nights a week, and they'd often burst and be all gross like those pics. So, to keep playing on hamburger fingers, I had to turn my amp way up and play very softly. Coincidentally, this helped with my blistering problem... I haven't had one since. :bassist: