Thunderbird Club

[Count Bassie]

My right hand will cramp or tighten a little early in the first set, but once past that I'm good for the whole night - I drink lots of Gatorade and take a couple advil before a show too.

Bananas fend off cramps. One about an hour before cramp-time.

 

[TBird1958]

Hydration - not alcohol, really helps me get through 3 hours of playing. Bananas are good before hand, but I usually don't eat anything for at least 3 hours before a show - too tightly wound up, I'd barf. Pickle juice is my friend onstage for cramps.

 

[JJR58]

Hydration - not alcohol, really helps me get through 3 hours of playing. Bananas are good before hand, but I usually don't eat anything for at least 3 hours before a show - too tightly wound up, I'd barf. Pickle juice is my friend onstage for cramps.

Hydration, so key.

 

[Engle]

somehow, my HS music teacher used to fit a 3/4 upright in his..

Convertible?

 

[theFixer]

... He just came into it by finding out what his hand was good at doing.

HIYOOOOOOO!!!

 

[lowplaces]

How chunky is the neck on the Epiphone Pro ?

The one with the tune-o-matic type Bridge.

 

[Count Bassie]

HIYOOOOOOO!!!

Nooooooo!!!...

 

[JJR58]

So, not Tbird related. @Gaolee's son, and @Count Bassie, a tribute to you both. Just how it's played, Bass and horns and all the rest....

Ok, maybe i'm not hydrated enough.

 

[PillO]

Bananas fend off cramps. One about an hour before cramp-time.

 

[PillO]

Some things are better left unsaid.

You are right. Pictures or it didn't happen...

 

[JJR58]

You are right. Pictures or it didn't happen...

Like that can happen here?

 

[TBird1958]

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Oh honey, just relax, it doesn’t hurt

 

[PillO]

Like that can happen here?

Oh right. We saw the pictures and still want proof...

 

[JJR58]

Some might consider this comedy music. I get it. All so very good.

 

[GonePlaid]

use your bridge cover to rest your hand on. could be your pickup cover is getting in the way..

The problem is much simpler than that-inherited arthritis. I listen to some of our old tapes(yes, tapes)and wonder howinahell I played That fast, pick or fingers. I s'pose if I practiced picking more, I could build up to it again but since 95%+/- of what I play is finger style, there's not much point.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

The problem is much simpler than that-inherited arthritis. I listen to some of our old tapes(yes, tapes)and wonder howinahell I played That fast, pick or fingers. I s'pose if I practiced picking more, I could build up to it again but since 95%+/- of what I play is finger style, there's not much point.

Yeah, I go through periods when I play fingers only then others where I play the same material pick only. Strange..

 

[Gaolee]

Cramping happens when I'm not playing the bass too!

ehem

You are taking the Queen thing a little too far if you are getting cramps. Just saying.

 

[GonePlaid]

Some might consider this comedy music. I get it. All so very good.

Saw them in Miami in '74(?)w/ guest musician Roland Kirk. Amazing and bizarre. Duke Ellington Orchestra on the same bill. Addendum: China Valles was the MC. It was a 3 day jazz/rock festival at the Miami Jai-Alai fronton.

 

[Count Bassie]

So, not Tbird related. @Gaolee's son, and @Count Bassie, a tribute to you both. Just how it's played, Bass and horns and all the rest....

Ok, maybe i'm not hydrated enough.

Hell yeah. Now THAT'S an engine room.

 

[JJR58]

Hell yeah. Now THAT'S an engine room.

Knew it man. You're a firehouse.