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Bob Carlucci
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Candor, New York, USA
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Posted 17 Jun 2005 4:04 am |
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No we're not discussing your reaction when your honey says.. " NO you are NOT getting another stupid pedal steel"!!..
I'd like to hear some thoughts about the physical things that inhibit some of us in our steel playing.. especially in the hands, and how you counteract it.
Its summer now, and I am cursed at this time every year.. I sweat in ridiculous amounts out of the palms of my hands, and the soles of my feet..[but thats another disgusting story]..
I need to play with a towel, and an oily rag, as the strings are so filthy and crusty after just a short time, that the bar feels like its covered with wet sandpaper.. Real annoying... Sweat pours all over the pickup, changer, fretboard.. its disgusting... I can't even keep picks on in the summer.
I'm thinking of installing a drool bucket on the keyhead!...
anyway, I'd like comments from anyone else that has strange hand/finger problems that are detrimental to thier playing... ESPECIALLY sweating!  ..bob |
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Jon Jaffe
From:
Austin, Texas
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Posted 17 Jun 2005 4:31 am
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| Bob, you need to apply an antiperspirant to your hands. They can be purchased at any sporting goods store or golf proshop. They have aluminum compounds in them that control sweating like an underarm product. Of course you could use Right Guard, but make sure it is an antiperspirant and no one sees what you are doing. [This message was edited by Jon Jaffe on 17 June 2005 at 05:32 AM.] |
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Jeff Lampert
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queens, new york city
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Posted 17 Jun 2005 4:36 am
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Take a two or three portable fans with you (take a fuse strip so you can plug them all in). Point them to your head and/or hands. Keep a bottle of water and paper towels next to your steel. Since you're most likely outdoors, you can periodically dump some water on your hands and wipe them off with the paper towels. Make sure that when you pour the water, you stay clear of your cables!!
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[url=http://www.mightyfinemusic.com/jeff's_jazz.htm]Jeff's Jazz[/url]
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John Daugherty
From:
Rolla, Missouri, USA
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Posted 17 Jun 2005 5:34 am
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Bob, if you keep a towel on your person while playing, be sure you DO NOT wrap in around your head. After the 9/11 attack this could lead to problems. Or you could use that new deodorant called "VANISH". You spray it all over your body, you disappear and everyone wonders where the smell and the music is coming from. hahahahahaha.
(you knew this was coming, didn't you?) |
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Bob Carlucci
From:
Candor, New York, USA
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Posted 17 Jun 2005 6:02 am
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| John.. I'd NEVER put a towel on my head.. I have that "ethnic" look goin' on and I'd get into trouble..btw, you need to post some of those jokes you mail me in the HUMOR section on this website... some pretty good stuff there!!! bob |
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Bill Llewellyn
From:
San Jose, CA
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Posted 17 Jun 2005 7:58 am
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Man, depending on where you're getting those, it sounds like you should take an aspirin and call an ambulance! 
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Bill, steelin' since '99 | Steel page | MSA U12 | My music | Steelers' birthdays | Over 50?
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Bob Carlucci
From:
Candor, New York, USA
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Posted 17 Jun 2005 8:07 am
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| Bill.. actually I just get the sweating thing real bad .. I was just asking if anyone else has sweating OR any other hand/finger problems that cause grief when they play, and how they get around it.. I can't seem to get around the severe palm sweating...bob |
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Marty Pollard
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Posted 17 Jun 2005 8:44 am
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These are serious symptoms which should not be disregarded.
You should sell your steel and amp, relinquish your forum membership, and find a different hobby; kayaking perhaps. |
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Bob Carlucci
From:
Candor, New York, USA
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Posted 17 Jun 2005 9:44 am
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| Marty.. you're correct... wanna buy it??.. 50 bucks takes everything... |
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Kenny Drake
From:
Leesburg, Virginia, USA
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Posted 17 Jun 2005 9:51 am
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"Sweating, numbness, pain, tingling"
Bob, you're either in love or going thru menapause (or both)  |
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Jennings Ward
From:
Edgewater, Florida, R.I.P.
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Posted 17 Jun 2005 10:00 am
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BOB IS JUST TRYING TO PLAY AS GOOD AS THE POSSUM LAZGANA HE JUST ATE..MAKES HIM NERVOUS.......ITALLIAN STEEL PLAYERS ARE NOT USED TO TWO GOOD THINGS IN ONE DAY.. CAUSE FOR SWEATING...DONT KNOW WHO IS IN THE AUDIENCE......BOB TRY SOME NO SWEAT........
JENNINGS,, THE POSSUM KING:::::::::::::::::::
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Mike Weirauch
From:
Harrisburg, Illinois**The Hub of the Universe
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Posted 17 Jun 2005 10:12 am
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Contact your nearest funeral home and make arrangements while you are still conscious but not before you take Marty's advise in full! Kayaking? Can you swim? If not, don't learn!
BTW this is an unintelligent answer to an unintelligent post! |
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Marty Pollard
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Posted 17 Jun 2005 10:14 am
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Hush up, bigmouth!  |
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Bob Carlucci
From:
Candor, New York, USA
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Posted 17 Jun 2005 10:35 am
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| b0b.. please close this up.. I meant this as a serious thread ,but its veered off into another dimensional plane! .. if you would be so kind to put it out of its misery... bob |
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Ian Finlay
From:
Kenton, UK
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Posted 17 Jun 2005 11:31 am
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Seriously...
I had a friend who sweated badly. He didn't smell bad, but always had dark marks under his armpits, back etc. He had some sort of electrolysis treatment which helped some. If you're on any medication, check back with your doctor.
Best of luck,
Ian |
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Tony Prior
From:
Charlotte NC
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Posted 17 Jun 2005 12:13 pm
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For outdoor gigs...
I do keep a small cooler with ICE just for a small wash cloth..in between tunes I basically wash and dry my hands and wipe down my face and forehead...
Keeping your hands clean and NON sweaty is a must...
Indoors this is not necessary ..this is the South...if the temp in the club is hi ..it will be empty...and I won't be there either...
t
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Stephen Gambrell
From:
Over there
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Posted 17 Jun 2005 12:39 pm
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"Marty.. you're correct... wanna buy it??.. 50 bucks takes everything..."
WHO WANTS TO BUY A STEEL GUITAR THAT'S ALL SWEATY, AND CAUSES PAIN, NUMBNESS, AND (possibly the worst) TINGLING????
Maybe you, or your amp, ain't grounded---I have MY suspicions as to which... |
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Marty Pollard
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Posted 17 Jun 2005 1:14 pm
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| Steve, I think that stuff comes from using bar slants. |
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James Sission
From:
Sugar Land,Texas USA
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Posted 17 Jun 2005 1:16 pm
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Bob, I play here in Texas and its plenty hot on outdoor gigs. I am also a fishing guide, so I spend a lot to time outdoors. I use a product called a "Cool Tie" and it works very well to help keep the body temp down and slow down persperation problems. Here is a web site to them: http://www.cooltiesareus.com/index.html
Also, in talking about hand problems, I have only recently begun playing steel. When I was young and rode bulls in TYRA, I got my right thumb amputated in a riggin accident. Although most the thumb survived, I basically have nub with no feeling in it. It has take me all the first 2 1/2 months of learning to play just to get used to a thumb pick being on there. At first, it would slip off and because I cant feel it, I would never know it was slipping until it fell on the fretboard. To over come the problem, I learned from Bobby Bowman that the application of a small amount of hairspray on the thumb, then sliding the pick over the damp spray, would cause it to stick to my thumb but yet, I could easily slip the pick off with a little pressure on it. If one has enough desire to do something, I think they can over come the obstacles.....James[This message was edited by James Sission on 17 June 2005 at 02:17 PM.]
Sorry...I posted the wrong web site...Had a little problem getting it to work. It seems ok now....James[This message was edited by James Sission on 17 June 2005 at 02:24 PM.] |
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Alan Cook
From:
Kent,England
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Posted 17 Jun 2005 1:41 pm
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Hi Bob
You need to think about your concentration I recomend you read The Inner Game of Music By Barry Green and Timothy Galllwey a fab book about this very subject. I work with classical musicians who suffer greatly with pressure of work ect. Its mind over matter in the end but the above book deals with methods of overcoming the very real problems that are associated with good musical preformance. If you read it let me know what you think about it.
Alan www.alancook.net |
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Ron Sodos
From:
San Antonio, Texas USA
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Posted 17 Jun 2005 2:19 pm
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| I really think you post on the forum more than you play steel..... |
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Stu Schulman
From:
Ulster Park New Yawk (deceased)
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Posted 17 Jun 2005 4:33 pm
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| For those of you who do have some numbness,tingling...... or pinched nerve problems I found some thing that has helped me.http://www.basegear.com/dynaflex.html.It's a hand gyroscope ball,I try to work out with it at least for 1/2 an hour before my gig.Stu |
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Bob Carlucci
From:
Candor, New York, USA
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Posted 17 Jun 2005 4:46 pm
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James.. I admire you... having only part of a thumb would have shut a lot of us down as far as playing steel is concerned.. and thanks for the Cool Tie idea..
Tony.. Yeah ice helps but its a pain using it on a gig sometimes..... I heard there is some prescription medication that you can put on your hands that REALLY works, but you need to see a doctor to get it... Its not perfomance anxiety that causes my severe sweating.. Its been this way since I was a little kid.. I sweat very little elsewhere, but I POUR sweat out of the hands and feet in summer anwhenever the humidity is high.. I'm wired up in a very odd manner... really ridiculous..
btw, Ron S...tough... bob |
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Joe Miraglia
From:
Jamestown N.Y.
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Posted 18 Jun 2005 1:28 pm
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| Bob--The last 4 days I've been freezing,Temp.in the 60,s to 40's--I'M cold. I know we don't live to far from each other. Sometime we might get to meet.You start walking your way and I'll start walking my way ,and we'll meet in the middle( some where near Olean ) Sounds like a song. Joe [This message was edited by Joe Miraglia on 18 June 2005 at 02:35 PM.] |
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Stephen Gambrell
From:
Over there
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Posted 18 Jun 2005 1:57 pm
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" Real annoying...its disgusting"
Out of the mouths of babes... |
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