BS: guitar playin' and CAP'S out fir now....

Subject: BS: guitar playin' and CAP'S out fir now....
From: Bobert
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 07:40 PM

well, folks, the bobert was out in the lavedar bed today cuttin' 'um back for the upcoming season and somehow confuserated the tip of his leff index finger with lavendar.... like ouch... exclamation point....

so off to the local urgent care center, a tetnis shot, bout 10 minutes of fun while the nurse first cleaned, then held pressure on it to stop the bleeding...

so, looks like iz gonna be typing with little letters with the rest of the cool folks who do it.... but i gotta a purdy danged good excuse...

playing guitar is gonna be challenging but i have learned that injuries make me a better player so we'll see...

bobert

Subject: RE: BS: guitar playin' and CAP'S out fir now....
From: Peace
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 07:43 PM

Stitches?

Subject: RE: BS: guitar playin' and CAP'S out fir now....
From: Big Mick
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 07:47 PM

Bobert, you damned clumsy hillbilly. Stop this shit!! You are forbidden to cut off any body parts that affect your ability to play and sing until such time as I have had a chance to make music in your company. DO YOU UNERSTAND??????

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: guitar playin' and CAP'S out fir now....
From: Bobert
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 07:47 PM

nuthin to stitch, brucie. i cut the tip off clean... it's, like history... just innards...

bobert

Subject: RE: BS: guitar playin' and CAP'S out fir now....
From: Bobert
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 07:50 PM

10-4, big mick... lookin' forward to it, too...

bobert

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From: Amos
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 07:52 PM

Jeeze, Bobert!! How far back did you cut it?

A

Subject: RE: BS: guitar playin' and CAP'S out fir now....
From: mooman
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 07:52 PM

That happened to me as well a while back and I asked the doctor if I'd be able to play the piano when it healed. He said "Don't be silly man...of course you will!" and I said "Oh good, 'cos I couldn't before....!"

...the old ones are the best...(aren't we?)

Peace

moo

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From: Big Mick
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 07:57 PM

Yes we are, Moo my man, yes we are ..... LOL.

Mick

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From: wysiwyg
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 07:58 PM

Hm, I think I'm gonna put yore Wes Ginny ass out on the prayer line.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: guitar playin' and CAP'S out fir now....
From: Tinker
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 08:01 PM

Damn Mr. Bobert.... you'd better start taking better care of your self ! I love my garden too, but fingers is not acceptable fertlizer. Even my Goddess garden does not get more than thorn prick blood sacrifice. Now I suppose ya might get a purty good blues song out of this but..... Just keep the rest of you in one piece til Getaway, Okay???

Blessings

Tinker

Subject: RE: BS: guitar playin' and CAP'S out fir now....
From: Biskit
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 08:05 PM

Git Away from thet Lawnmower Lamar! you know you don't know nothin' 'bout no 'chienery!

Subject: RE: BS: guitar playin' and CAP'S out fir now....
From: Bobert
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 08:20 PM

i'm ok, wysiwyg, better save the prayer chain in case i really need it, god has this one covered, and bandaged...

thanks, tinker. i'll be there.... with guitar, thank you...

amos... well, i didn't cut thru the bone but i took out the calosed area.... ouch...exclamation point.

bobert

Subject: RE: BS: guitar playin' and CAP'S out fir now....
From: Amergin
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 09:00 PM

You weren't the one out playing with the chain saw the other day, were you?

I had a bosun a few years ago who had his hand resting on the combing up in the wheel house...when a gust of wind came along and slammed the hatch shut....it literally popped the tip of his thumb clean off...

This fellow had 20-30 years of experience and he didn't have the hatch dogged open...

Subject: RE: BS: guitar playin' and CAP'S out fir now....
From: Sorcha
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 10:10 PM

Bobert, ma main man, just HOW many times do I have to tell you,
THIS AIN'T FUNNY!!! A Bris for your finger?
Hope all heals well that was cut well...uh, never mind.....Mazel Tov!

Subject: RE: BS: guitar playin' and CAP'S out fir now....
From: Midchuck
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 10:30 PM

Steve Kaufman encourages practicing playing, making all the standard "easy" chords, i. e. the ones you can make with 3 fingers, with the middle, ring, and pinky, leaving the index out of it. The idea is that when you get good at it, you can play anywhere on the neck, since you can use the index to hold down the string or strings that would be open in first position.

I've never tried it, but it would be something to mess with while you're healing.

Just a thought FWIW.

P.

Subject: RE: BS: guitar playin' and CAP'S out fir now....
From: Amos
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 10:44 PM

Wal it could be worse. I had a feller manage a steel hawser for me one time by sticking his fingers under it just as the tug on the other end took up the slack. That boy couldn't get his fingers out from under the wire, and when they finally severed from his hand he was able to roll over and faint, so he did that. We picked up the two fingers he'd lost and sent them ashore with the ambulance but it was no use. HE was white as a sheet when we got him ashore.

Hell, just the tip, huh? Grace o' Gawd it wasn't a lot worse, Bobert!! Mazel Tov indeed!!


A

Subject: RE: BS: guitar playin' and CAP'S out fir now....
From: Peace
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 10:47 PM

OK, it ain't good, but it will heal and you will use that finger to play again. Chord hand? Because if it is, that will be a cast-iron SOB to deal with. P A I N.

Subject: RE: BS: guitar playin' and CAP'S out fir now....
From: open mike
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 11:29 PM

iT PROBABLY WAS HIS LEFT HAND, CUZ IF'N

HE IS RIGHT HANDED THAT WAS THE HAND HE HAD THE CLIPPERS IN
THEREFORE THE LEFT WAS THE ONE GRABBING THER LAVENDAR AND
THEREFORE IN HARM'S WAY..

the lavendar will smell even sweeter this year...
i was cuttin' mine back today too!
I put the cut twigs in water on the stove for yummy pot pourri
but your might be tainted....

Subject: RE: BS: guitar playin' and CAP'S out fir now....
From: Bobert
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 11:54 PM

you all is some sick folks an' outtta just turn yerselves in to the sick folks department an' accept yer treatments like the rest of 'umz do....specially open mike... you know that lavender don't like that much nitrogen..... heck, if they did i got a couple of useless cats i'd grind up and throw in there...

awww, jus' funnin'... i love them cats...

ahhhh, hmmmmmm.... question mark... i ain't too sure 'bout choppin
off finger tips... 'er gettin' turned over to the prayer chain...'er ....

i mean like i ain't ewver done this much damage ti mysef but, hey, in spite if what you might hear on the street, it was an accident. i weren't tryin' to do myself in 'er nuthin'...... i promise,,

bobert

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From: GUEST,boney fangers
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 12:01 AM

Jess uz long (ha) as hit aint hisn middle fanger...dont want thatn short!

I heerd of uh fiddler onced that cut a fanger offin an he used one of them sowing neadle thimbels an hit workd fine as frog hair...he
Becum tha vury furst blues slide fiddler ever wuz.

Gud luk man! Tha thot of loosin a guitar playin fanger scars me ta deeth.

Subject: RE: BS: guitar playin' and CAP'S out fir now....
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 12:25 AM

Well, it's an opportunity to practice slide guitar...

Subject: RE: BS: guitar playin' and CAP'S out fir now....
From: Joe Offer
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 02:26 AM

Gee, Bobert, all I can say is OUCH!!! I hope you're feeling better - and pickin' better - soon.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: BS: guitar playin' and CAP'S out fir now....
From: Mooh
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 08:09 AM

Found myself grasping my own fingers as I read this. These tales always send shivers down my spine. If it was my finger it would be throbbing like the engines of hell.

Man, you're lucky, it COULD have been worse. But look after it all the same. Good luck!

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: guitar playin' and CAP'S out fir now....
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 08:33 AM

I'll echo Dick Greenhaus's sentiment about slide guitar. Tune that Regal to open D, grab the Coricidin bottle and let 'er rip. And if ya get bored with that, slip one of those extension nut thingies on it, get hold of a Stevens slide (maybe you'll find mine 'cause it's damn well lost), tune it to GBDGBD and learn to play Dobro.

"When life give you lemons, you damn shore ain't gonna make orange juice so quitcherbitchin'!"

Subject: RE: BS: guitar playin' and CAP'S out fir now....
From: wysiwyg
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 09:27 AM

He did say if was his LEFF hand so there ya go....

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: guitar playin' and CAP'S out fir now....
From: Bobert
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 10:36 AM

shoot, beedubyaell, iz spends most my time in open tuninz anyway... the regal stays in d tunin and with a capo on the second fret its in e tunin.... an' 'bout half i do is wid a slide so that part will be3 okay 'cept even when i'm sliding i pix lots of stuff mixed in so it will be interesting...

i have figgured out that my 1935 gibson tenor guitar going to get a lot more attention....

btw, speakin' o' tenor guitars.... i was down in fredricksburg, va. lass month an' stopped into picker's supply an' the owner, bran dillard, who loves messin' wid me went to his office a brought out a 1932 national tricone plectum-- tenor-- with the lilly of the valley motiff etched on the face........... drool......... he let me play it and i swear, that was the funnest guitar i've run into like, ahhhh, forever... i offered to trade him all my guitars, including my '64 d-18 martin, the gibson tenor, the reagal and half a dozen miscellanious beaters fir it.... he told me that they would serve as a down payment on the national and that he would send a thick payment book to me in the mail.......... now that's mean, mean, mean... he's always nessin' wid my poor head.......

bobert

Subject: RE: BS: guitar playin' and CAP'S out fir now....
From: GUEST,boney fangers
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 01:31 PM

Hay Bobert,

Haint yu the feller whut talks 'bout thut West Ginny Slide Rule?

Well thangs is lookin' up, pillgrum. Ifin' yuz larn thut gittar slide reel gud theys'll be asayin' "Boy howdy, thut thur Bobert duz Rule, why he is Thuh West Ginny Slide"

Thank of the fame an fortchion of this billin'.."Bobert, Thuh West Ginny Slide"

Subject: RE: BS: guitar playin' and CAP'S out fir now....
From: Bobert
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 01:38 PM

hey, boney fingers, you on to somethin' there an' iz been getting a little tired of my ol' performin' handle-- sidewalk bob-- anyway. could get me two birds wid the same stone. hmmmmmmm, question mark...

bobert

Subject: RE: BS: guitar playin' and CAP'S out fir now....
From: Mudlark
Date: 30 Mar 04 - 03:37 AM

Bobert....you'ns sell yore chain saw NOW! And heal up fast.

Subject: RE: BS: guitar playin' and CAP'S out fir now....
From: Bobert
Date: 30 Mar 04 - 05:17 PM

Nah, Mudlark, I ain't gonna do no such thing. What would I use to butcher up them possums fir the freezer?

And you'll notice that I am back to using CAPS. Ahhhh, okay, still ain't using the tipless finger but at least after changing the dressing and finding that bleeding has stopped I'm a little more comfy using the left hand... Shoot, I'll be bending guitar straings in no time...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: guitar playin' and CAP'S out fir now....
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 30 Mar 04 - 05:36 PM

Did you see The Piano?...Ouch.

But think Django Reinhardt. This could be the making of your technique.

Anyway, it'll grow back. From what I've heard you should end up with the same fingerprint you had before too. Amazing things bodies.

Subject: RE: BS: guitar playin' and CAP'S out fir now....
From: Bobert
Date: 30 Mar 04 - 07:12 PM

Didn't see it, McG, but like I've said, every time I mess up my hands I come out a better guitar player... Lookin' forward to seeing how I'm gonna get around this one... I been thinkin' about it, however. Tenor guitar is an easy answer but I'll get beyond the obvious...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: guitar playin' and CAP'S out fir now....
From: Amos
Date: 30 Mar 04 - 07:25 PM

Bobert:

Ya gotta rent it. Its a ART fillum but it has some music in it and a gal with a similar difficulty and how she grew. You're sure to love it...


A

Subject: RE: BS: guitar playin' and CAP'S out fir now....
From: Bobert
Date: 30 Mar 04 - 11:09 PM

OK, Amos... I'z a little light on culture this year......

Bobert