Ever play injured?

[Stumbo]

I cracked my right wrist in a fall and was wearing a cast.

I couldn't hold my arm in the normal playing position (I play with a pick mostly). I had to lower the back of the bass a bit and rotate my arm so I was playing with my arm kinda pointing at the floor.

Made it through a few practices before the cast came off. Don't think I played a gig with it, though.

How about you?

[D.Don]

Not me, but at the time I was giggin every week (as a keyboardplayer) our band had a trip to Stockholm (thats like one day with car away from where I come from) to play a very important gig with record company representatives present etc.

Drummer, hurt his wrist (the kick one) racing down a stair in a high building same day the gig was (we went to Stockholm a cpl of days before to settle things) ..

Ended up with him at the hospital half an hour before the actual performance, getting a shot, and then after the gig STRONG pills and sleep...

We got no deal anyway, but gig went good and we had greatz fun!



D.Don

[Herrlster]

I fractured my pinky and played a practice and gig the following days.

[spalka621]

Originally Posted by JakeTheSnake

same here. luckily i don't use that finger

On your plucking hand I hope!

[knarleybass]

I broke my foot half way trough a gig, I did manage to finish out the job, load my gear and drive home. I was in a lot of pain though.

[Herrlster]

Originally Posted by JakeTheSnake

same here. luckily i don't use that finger

It was on my plucking hand, I don't use it either but it did limit my playing somewhat.

[Bassman822]

I sliced the tip of my right middle finger a couple of hours before a gig. Went to the ER, got 6 stiches and a tetanus shot on the way to the gig.

[lburton2]

I played on an old Fender Jazz Copy and the bridge cover was old and rusted and i sliced my hand on it in the middle of a gig.. i didnt' realise it was bleeding until after a song when i looked down and the bass was half covered in blood.. The bar owner gave me some TP and i ended up mopping up my hand after every song. good gig. lol

[capnsandwich]

I had to have my gallbladder removed the hard way, (up under the rib cage), and was in the hospital for a week. When I got home I didn't move for 3 days. On Sunday I was on plenty of pain pills and feeling pretty good so I went to church. They didn't have a bassist so I went up there and played in a chair, staples and all. After I was done with an hours worth of music I took my bass off and set it down and began walking to my seat. The lady in the front row pointed out to me that my incision had started bleeding. I looked down and saw that the whole front of my shirt was drenched in blood. That pain medication really worked, seeing that I didn't even notice that.

Also, I've had some torn cartilage and a torn tendon in my right wrist from a work accident. I wear a cast until I get surgery for it but I usually take it off to play the bass for church and in the studio.

[Thunderthumbs73]

Cut the middle finger on my fretting hand. Not so much fun, but I made it through, minus the use of that finger...

On one occasion, I played a show in Bakersfield with a freshly broken little toe which I duct taped to the other toes and just wore a sock on that foot.

On another occasion, I played a show in Detroit very sick with a very high temperature. Not a pleasant memory.

George

[ZonGuy]

Buddy came and rescued me two weeks after surgery and a week after I got out of the hospital and drove me to a jazz jam session, since they didnt have another bass player. Took an electric, not an upright. I was pretty gone on vicodin to kill the pain and I remember my Fender jazz seemed to weigh a ton, so I asked him to carry it. I went in pajamas bottoms and slippers, because of incisions.

Sat down and played two hours. I definitely had trouble with the uptempo numbers like "Night in Tunisia" . We did a lot of ballads and I hot a lot of "experimental notes". I remember having trouble keeping from sliding out of the chair. I do not do drugs and I weaned off the vicodin after a month.

My wife was pissed as she was gone when I left the house. She thought I had wandered off and was going to call the cops.

[Swamp Ash]

I broke the first finger (pointer) on my right hand. The bone broke completely in two and my finger was bent at a 90 degree angle over my other fingers. They set it in surgery and put two stainless pins in it. My entire hand except my thumb was bandaged. The next night I played a job using a thumb pick.

[jmacfee]

Oh, yeah. Two years ago, I ripped open my hand between the pinky and ring finger on my left hand. Five stitches and a big bandage. Played that night.Couldn't use my little finger but managed to get through the gig. This past March, I severed the top of my left index finger right at the first knuckle. I'm right handed. Missed the gig that night but played keyboards with my band two days later. A week later I went back to bass using my middle finger, ring finger and pinky. It's getting better but I sure do miss that inch of finger!
John

[Valerus]

Nope, can't say that I have.

[boonefiddler]

I put my left hand down on the top of a grill cover when I lost my balance. I was a couple of beers in, with a gig that night. I went to the ER, they gave me antibiotics and codeine. 3rd degree burns in some places along the pinky side of my hand. Still hurting, I drank a couple more beers and took the CoTylenol. I slept on the way to the 4 and half hour gig. It hurt some, but I think it healed quickly because I used it alot. I played another gig the next night. A few days later I went for a check up. It had healed well. I recommend playing soon after being burned, but cutting back on the beer with CoTylenol. I think I played a bit sloppy that night, but I don't remember that well....

[MadMan118]

once durring a show i devloped blisters on 3 of my left hand fingers and 2 on my richt. Just poped them with my teeth swolled a pain pill kept playing

[varunkapahi]

i have played gigs with extremely blistered finger tips/pads in both my hands back when i had just taken up bass

[fokof]

Broke my left collarbone after a Mountain bike crash.
Had a gig the next day....


I had to put my left hand on my neck with the other one , very painfull experience!
Got subbed the next gig.......

[jsingles]

never broke a bone in my body