Recent content by settedollar

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    Bass player mental health?

    Awesome. I will endeavor not to hurt myself, or others. :)
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    Bass player mental health?

    I figured this would get a rise, but not quite this fast! Thanks to all the responses: the helpful, the funny, and even the unhelpful/mildly insulting. A few points: I meant troll more in the fishing sense than the online forum sense. I should have said "long time reader, first time poster."...
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    Bass player mental health?

    Sooooo, odd question from a troll who never really posts: I've played guitar longer than bass (please no hate), but I've since discovered that I'm totally a natural at bass and often like playing it more. I can't hit my guitar hard enough to work out my aggression, after all. :) HOWEVER, all...
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    upper back/shoulder pull/strain

    Not positive, no. Last time I had this sudden extreme pain, I saw my GP & a PT. The PT noticed that my T2 vertebrae was slightly twisted but didn't see anything else the matter. My massage therapist is also trained in therapeutic massage, so she'd probably notice something like that as well. I...
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    upper back/shoulder pull/strain

    Yeah, Andrew I hate being young & broken. I have a 2-month-old at home & can't really do much with him because of the pain, but at least mine *should* go away. I probably have about $500 worth of straps in my basement. The only one I found that was really good is the DuoStrap I mentioned...
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    upper back/shoulder pull/strain

    For being only 30, I'm a broken, broken man. I want to see if anybody else has had similar problems to this, and what they did to fix it: Twice now in the past 2 years, I've pulled/strained a muscle in my upper back. I'm pretty sure it's the Serratus Posterior Superior; the pain is centered...