Bassists worst nightmare?

[Magnolia]

Fractured right hand, several stitches and repetitive strain on my thumb!

Thats me out of action for a few weeks!!

[yorick]

Sorry to hear... my worst nightmare are jazz drummers

[casapete]

Bummer.
When I broke my arm a couple of years ago I carried on gigging on keyboard bass. Actually was a good experience, made me approach stuff from a different angle etc. Also stopped me from getting tetchy about the injury,and gave me something to concentrate on.
Worth considering - hope things improve soon.

[BassMunkee]

[quote name='casapete' post='883799' date='Jul 2 2010, 10:59 AM']Bummer.
When I broke my arm a couple of years ago I carried on gigging on keyboard bass. Actually was a good experience, made me approach stuff from a different angle etc. Also stopped me from getting tetchy about the injury,and gave me something to concentrate on.
Worth considering - hope things improve soon.[/quote]
+1 - you don't need a bass to play bass, or even 2 arms!

[M-Bass-M]

Taking it one step further, amputation of either arm would be my worst nightmare. Although, if it were the right arm then I suppose you might be able to hook up some sort of pick-holding prosthetic.

[El Bajo]

How did you get repetative strain on your thumb?

[Toasted]

"just plug into this behringer DI box and then into your amp"

[M-Bass-M]

Guitarist: "I've written this bass line that I want you to play..."

[Magnolia]

[quote name='El Bajo' post='883858' date='Jul 2 2010, 12:27 PM']How did you get repetative strain on your thumb?[/quote]

I anchor my thumb on top of the pickup, and where im quite a heavy handed player press down quite hard with it. Balls!

[Colledge]

[quote name='Magnolia' post='883909' date='Jul 2 2010, 01:02 PM']I anchor my thumb on top of the pickup, and where im quite a heavy handed player press down quite hard with it. Balls![/quote]
damn, sounds just like me..... better lay off it a bit then.

[BassMunkee]

Use a pick!

[Magnolia]

[quote name='Colledge' post='883923' date='Jul 2 2010, 01:15 PM']damn, sounds just like me..... better lay off it a bit then.[/quote]


Its got to the point where is hurt quite a bit just to grip things, and even when i write with a pen. I know i probably have bad technique so has prob taught me to adjust it a bit. Best to do it before prolems flair up though!

[quote name='BassMunkee' post='883943' date='Jul 2 2010, 01:35 PM']Use a pick! [/quote]

Pick...whats one of those then

Fingers all the way!

[Dave Vader]

Playing with a pick finally knackered my right wrist a few years ago. Had to learn fingers properly, all new different kinds of pain... wish I'd kept the finger thing up 20 years ago.

[gary mac]

Wishing you a speedy recovery. Best of luck.

[ShergoldSnickers]

This literally was a nightmare - and I dreamt it several times. I'm playing with the band in public, and just thinking of chucking in a few tasty morsels as it's in a quiet section, and..... the neck gives way where it's bolted onto the body. So there I am holding two pieces of now useless timber.

There is no Freudian interpretation.



Oh no there isn't...

[BassMunkee]

[quote name='Magnolia' post='883964' date='Jul 2 2010, 01:54 PM']Its got to the point where is hurt quite a bit just to grip things, and even when i write with a pen. I know i probably have bad technique so has prob taught me to adjust it a bit. Best to do it before prolems flair up though!



Pick...whats one of those then

Fingers all the way![/quote]
In fairness I use both, depending...
...anyway that's a bit off topic - hope the OP has a speedy recovery regardless of how spanks his plank!!

[JTUK]

Bass falls over and snaps the headstock off the neck...and it is a neck-thru

[donut]

[quote name='M-Bass-M' post='883853' date='Jul 2 2010, 12:21 PM']Taking it one step further, amputation of either arm would be my worst nightmare. Although, if it were the right arm then I suppose you might be able to hook up some sort of pick-holding prosthetic.[/quote]

Who needs a pick when you can play like [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eskvyuzF1-Y"]this[/url]?

[Stag]

I drank a lot of beer a while ago and broke myself trying to get in my own house, resulting in my cream Ric getting blood all over it (as for some unknown reason I attempted to play bass when I got in the house, I really dont know why) and also finding out id fractured my thumb in two places. Which meant I couldnt hold / support a bass with the fretting hand, so 3 months of gigs had to be cancelled.... and I had to wear some kind of plastic "thumb dildo" to support the thumb pieces back into place. Not good! Hope you recover soon Mag!

Edited July 3, 2010 by Stag

[TRadford]

[quote name='donut' post='884189' date='Jul 2 2010, 06:01 PM']Who needs a pick when you can play like [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eskvyuzF1-Y"]this[/url]?[/quote]

Wow, thats cool..
Im guessing the scarf thing wrapped around the neck allows him to play like that, cos when I try it just sounds like a right mess with hardly any note definition at all. The scarf must deaden the ring when he lifts his fingers off the frets I guess??

[pietruszka]

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj6-gohzsaE"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj6-gohzsaE[/url]

No excuse!!!

Hope you feel better soon. We've all been there.

Dan

[grumble]

Worst nightmare ?
Waking up realising playing bass was a dream and I actually play banjo

[teen t-shirt]

[quote name='grumble' post='885070' date='Jul 3 2010, 09:37 PM']Worst nightmare ?
Waking up realising playing bass was a dream and I actually play banjo [/quote]

bloody hell dont scare me like that...
i swear to god if i dream about playing banjo tonight i'm coming for you

[Delberthot]

[quote name='Magnolia' post='883909' date='Jul 2 2010, 01:02 PM']I anchor my thumb on top of the pickup, and where im quite a heavy handed player press down quite hard with it. Balls![/quote]


so was it just me that read this as 'I anchor my balls on top of the pickup'?

that's bound to cause some sort of strain