"Played Guitar 'till my fingers bled"

[wully]

Anyone ever done that?

I've had some blisters but that's about the only damage I've done to myself.

( bank account not included in damage report..)

[lesblues]

Jul 5, 2011 16:28:37 GMT -5 wully said:

Anyone ever done that?

I've had some blisters but that's about the only damage I've done to myself.

( bank account not included in damage report..)

No, never actually drawn blood but I have played until the skin split and fell off!

[rayden44]

I've given myself 1-2 blisters, ripped up my fingertips playing rusty strings, split the odd nail (usually due to not having clipped it properly beforehand), and drawn blood stabbing myself with string ends a couple of times, and played SRV's Dirty Pool over and over until I was sweating like the proverbial pig. I've never actually managed to cause my fingers to bleed. Very sore tho yes

[pwfirst]

Blisters yes many times, blood no, ears bleeding and painfull from my poor playing, more than I can count.

[leerummey]

Jul 5, 2011 17:50:02 GMT -5 pwfirst said:

Blisters yes many times, blood no, ears bleeding and painfull from my poor playing, more than I can count.

;D lol

[leerummey]

lots of callouses and skin falling of but no blood here

[Happy Jack]

I have played guitar until other peoples ears have bled and grown men have run off screaming ;D

Pete Townshend once impaled himself on his trem are while doing a particularly spectacular windmill - that's gotta hurt

[pwfirst]

Townsend blead quite often while playing, but it was from him ripping off finger nails from the windmill.

[rayden44]

So the moral of the story is windmill the other direction? Should avoid the trem bar, and you'd have to turn around to do a big downstroke strum, hopefully meaning you're not doing 100 miles an hour and ripping off your fingers...

Or instead do what Malmsteen does and hurl your guitar wildly around your neck. You'll kill everyone else in the vicinity, but at least your fingers will be safe