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Eucerin Skin Cream Kills Strings DEAD!!!

#61
Kerplunk said:
I apologise to those I may have offended.
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No offense at all!!! I could tell I missed a joke, but I didn't get it!

Yes, most of this artists' statements must be taken with a huge grain of salt...

And yet, I believe in magic, like Geddy's 'unusual' Jazz pickups to Jaco having fried chicken before their historic '76 Montreux (KFC in Switzerland? I doubt it!). Correlation does not imply causation...
 
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#62
Kerplunk said:
Hi diegom. Just fooling around. I can't take this topic seriously at all.

A professional artist admitting to something, I find, farcical, screams to me to make equally farcical statements. Covering your strings with grease, fat, cream or whatever, which would attract dirt, grime, bacteria, fungus and whatnot has to be a joke. Don't you think a mosquitoe would stick to a greasy vaseline coated string?

It would get on your hands, inside your case etc. The questionable benefits are outweighed by the negatives. Why not coat your fretboard with insect repellant? Smear sunscreen over your oly white P bass to stop it yellowing? Why? Why not a piece of foam or retro fit your pickups with a half dead magnet?

I guess it must be me who's missin somethin.

I apologise to those I may have offended.
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Well I share your opinion that it's pretty frivolous and fun, but it serves a purpose, and your mocking comparisons, which I usually enjoy in threads such as these, don't. We don't want our flats to sound new. We want them to sound old and dead. Only Steve Harris and his 50 diehard fanatics want their flats to sound zingy. And new sets are too zingy, so we put stuff on them to get in the windings and deaden them. And now, everyone will use Eucerin, and I better get an endorsement deal because the stuff's not cheap!

And speaking of mocking, you act like your skin isn't covered with gross crap all over it that can attract fungus and grime, too. Especially your grubby butt-scratchers. Eucerin is a very clean white cream that doctors often recommend because of its formula and its effectiveness at moisturizing extremely dry skin. And it's not like you can't easily wipe it off your strings and neck once it sits a while, and it wipes clean. I would skeeve your hands touching your strings way before I'd ever skeeve Eucerin.
 
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diegom said:
No offense at all!!! I could tell I missed a joke, but I didn't get it!

Yes, most of this artists' statements must be taken with a huge grain of salt...

And yet, I believe in magic, like Geddy's 'unusual' Jazz pickups to Jaco having fried chicken before their historic '76 Montreux (KFC in Switzerland? I doubt it!). Correlation does not imply causation...
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I heard that Charles Mingus used to use and recommend fried chicken grease. Not sure if that is true. Maybe Jaco got the idea from him?
 
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thmsjordan said:
I heard that Charles Mingus used to use and recommend fried chicken grease. Not sure if that is true. Maybe Jaco got the idea from him?
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Molecular science today is a far cry from what it was in Mingus' day. Back then, people believed it was OK to rub your babies in Crisco and send them outside to play all day in the sun. And that was when it was made with lard!
 
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#72
cataract said:
I’ve developed the silly habit of washing my hands before playing my basses.
I don’t think this is the thread for me! :smug:
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Well it's not the thread for you if you don't have new strings that you want to sound dead in a hurry. I can respect that. I don't have a need for it often. But not skeeving your strings once you deaden them is what half of why the Eucerin method is great.
 
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#74
JimmyM said:
...If you use anything else, you're jackin'.
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#75
JimmyM said:
Nothing else even comes close for deadening flats. Eucerin Aquaphor does OK at it, but it's only OK. And forget the other medicated formulas. Plain white Eucerin cream is the ticket for making your new flats thumpy quickly. Store brand substitutes are fine as well, but some can be runnier than others.

Takes a couple overnight applications and wipedowns to really work, but the first application takes care of the worst of the zing while the second makes them sound like they've been played in by a sweaty person for a month or two. Even works on zingy-when-new Chromes. Results were more dramatic with Dunlop flats, which are less zingy when new, but the Chromes G string can be tricky. Still it's way tamed down and barely clinging to life. It also takes a decent amount of edge off new strings if you're pressed for time and can't do anything but one quick coat.

Best of all, you don't have to skeeve it like rancid chicken grease or some of the really nasty bodily secretions some of you suggest (you really need help, people). No need to turn your bass into a breeding ground for microscopic parasites if you don't have to.

You can argue with me till you're blue in the face about this or that foreign substance, but to put it simply, you are wrong. For deadening strings, Eucerin is king. If you use anything else, you're jackin'.
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OR you can leave them on your bass for 40 years or so until they break in...
 
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#76
Got my first set of flats on a few months ago and love them... May never take them off - good tip though, and while I can't say anything about this use, I will say Eucerin is the best lotion out there for actually moisturizing
 
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