Suffer for Art?? Yeah. Damnit!

[binaryalchemist]

So--a few weeks ago I had second degree burns on both hands, and a deep splinter in my right palm. Hey. You camp, this kind of thing happens. Best thing to do with a burn is let it heal naturally--leave the blisters alone, let them reabsorb and let the skin underneath heal . Once the blister-skin becomes flat and dry, slough it off and then you've got pinkish new skin and no pain.
Until you pick up your guitar, of course....
We are playing a private event on next Saturday. My calluses are gone from disuse and I have new skin on two fingers.  I drove 17 miles for a set of Elixir Polyweb Extra Light strings--$16.00--because they will sound warmer on my Seagull and I'll have to spend part of tomorrow restringing her. Jeanne-Marie, thankfully, isn't as bitchy as my old Ovation Izumi, who would never let me change her strings without a blood sacrifice.

I just ran thru The Beatles' "Dear Prudence" and "Norwegian Wood" and my scarred finger stings quite a bit and it sounded clumsy as hell. My voice also sounds pretty crappy due to all the antihistamines I've been swallowing.  But it's better than a sharp stick in the ear, as my roomie would say.

And next time I go camping, I'm springing for some @#$%ing leather work gloves!

Comments

[eve_n_furter]

Sounds like the sweet birds were made by Hitchcock... It's good that your gig is next weekend, the blisters you get tomorrow might have turned into calluses by then. 8) *crosses fingers for you*

[binaryalchemist.livejournal.com]

Oh, they will--my method is to play a bit, go away a few hours, play a bit more, I've got her down in my office now--and when that guitar is within reach I can't leave her alone for long...