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Post by Christian Page, RAI on Jun 1, 2007 23:52:25 GMT -5
Just as I started feeling well, the carpal tunnel in my right hand flared up (I actually have it in both hands - years of computers and guitars...) I can type reasonably well with a wrist rest, but the worst-impaced part of my right hand are my index and middle fingers, which are all red and swollen around the joints, so I can't really use a mouse with my right hand. I had been setting up all the pages as cut-and-paste Dreamweaver templates (one of the things I've been doing behind the scenes) to speed up updating. It's just a minor setback - usually these flare-ups are gone within a week and it started on Wednesday. I'm just a bit slow on the Dreamweaver work since I'm using a mouse with my left hand. But one good thing about being a guitarist for more than 20 years is that my left hand is pretty dexterous, it just feels weird.
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Post by Ralf Maylin on Jun 2, 2007 0:34:28 GMT -5
Hi Kristopher,  I hope you'll get better soon. I never had a carpal tunnel syndrome myself but I did never heard something good about it. Glad you can use the mouse with your left hand. I'm playing drums and can brake my car using the left foot without loosing control, some instruments just improve your sensitivity. "If you never played drums, don't try this at home..." ;D LOL. |
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Post by Christian Page, RAI on Jun 2, 2007 1:26:09 GMT -5
Hi Kristopher, I hope you'll get better soon. I never had a carpal tunnel syndrome myself but I did never heard something good about it. Glad you can use the mouse with your left hand. I'm playing drums and can brake my car using the left foot without loosing control, some instruments just improve your sensitivity. "If you never played drums, don't try this at home..." ;D LOL. No, I wouldn't try that - I can keep time with a snare and either I high-hat or a tom, but bring the foot action and doing fills, not so hot at. Never really gave it much of a chance, though. We had a drummer in a band I was in circa 1992 that had gone to Berklee College of Music - he played with dual bass pedals on a single drum and could switch to a high-hat without flinching. He used to have a cardboard floor layout of his kit and would duct-tape the kit to the layout, otherwise he'd knock it over because he played so hard. That band - Atomic Garden - was always known for its power drummers. In '93, we opened for the Reverend Horton Heat and our new drummer Sean, he delayed the show for several minutes because he had busted the high-hat mechanism and we had to rig up a quick and dirty fix to finish the set. Duct tape was involved in that as well. And I thought I was bad by deliberately taking a cheap pawn shop amp for our last song and overloading it to the point that I could get it to literally explode at the right moment by flipping the feed switch from my real amp to the sacrificial one. Busting your equipment was passe' in 1993, causing an amp to blow itself up with pure feedback, resulting in ungodly noise, smoke, and flames - even our local destructionists The Flaming Lips liked that one. It's not hard, take a 12-watt practice amp you got from a pawn shop for $25 and then run a line to it from the 200-watt amp that is the primary nd get well way, within about 20 seconds of feedback, that little amp explodes. I'd make it more dramatic by putting the little amp into what looked like a 2x12 cabinet. I did it twice, the noise effect was too bad that I was asked never to do it again at future shows. Wimps...It's not like we were The Who when they overloaded the gunpowder in Moon's drum kit and set off what amounted to a small bomb. |
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Post by Ralf Maylin on Jun 2, 2007 2:48:28 GMT -5
I did not play a complete drum set for a few years now, currently I'm part of a brass band, but it's fun too.
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Post by Christian Page, RAI on Jun 2, 2007 3:06:19 GMT -5
I did not play a complete drum set for a few years now, currently I'm part of a brass band, but it's fun too. I like many styles of music, but those where I can blow things up? Relieves the stress... ;D Seriously, though, nowadays, I play here and there, everything from blues to punk to folk to country - nothing serious, just for the fun of it. |
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Post by jetstar on Jun 2, 2007 11:58:07 GMT -5
Just as I started feeling well, the carpal tunnel in my right hand flared up (I actually have it in both hands - years of computers and guitars...) I can type reasonably well with a wrist rest, but the worst-impaced part of my right hand are my index and middle fingers, which are all red and swollen around the joints, so I can't really use a mouse with my right hand. I had been setting up all the pages as cut-and-paste Dreamweaver templates (one of the things I've been doing behind the scenes) to speed up updating. It's just a minor setback - usually these flare-ups are gone within a week and it started on Wednesday. I'm just a bit slow on the Dreamweaver work since I'm using a mouse with my left hand. But one good thing about being a guitarist for more than 20 years is that my left hand is pretty dexterous, it just feels weird. Hi Kris. That's not so good. I get Arthritis in my right shoulder, and when that is bad I can't do a thing with the computer as the pain is so intense . At the moment its pretty good so I have been slaving away with the flight plans while the going is good. My mouse use in the left hand is .... well..... appalling!! I'll continue hosting my files until you are ready for them. I have quite a few lined up. Some existing and some new. Take care. Paul |
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Post by Ralf Maylin on Jun 2, 2007 12:47:21 GMT -5
I did not play a complete drum set for a few years now, currently I'm part of a brass band, but it's fun too. I like many styles of music, but those where I can blow things up? Relieves the stress... ;D Seriously, though, nowadays, I play here and there, everything from blues to punk to folk to country - nothing serious, just for the fun of it. "Punk", another retro-thing but good music though...  |
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Post by Christian Page, RAI on Jun 2, 2007 14:02:47 GMT -5
I like many styles of music, but those where I can blow things up? Relieves the stress... ;D Seriously, though, nowadays, I play here and there, everything from blues to punk to folk to country - nothing serious, just for the fun of it. "Punk", another retro-thing but good music though... Well, REAL punk is retro - you still have pop bands with distortion pedals and snarls like Green Day, whom I like a few songs from, but they're not what I remember. I was a bit late for the New York and British punk scenes - the Ramones, I loved from the moment I heard them, which was when I saw the movie "Rock n' Roll High School" when we got cable around 1981. The Pistols came later for me, but I remember (and still love) the Clash when I first heard them on MTV not long after the channel debuted. Siouxsie and the Banshees, I love just about everything they've ever done, but they were more goth than punk, despite coming out of the London punk scene. What I more grew up with, though was the Los Angeles sound - X (probably my favorite band, period), The Germs, Fear, Black Flag, etc. |
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Post by Christian Page, RAI on Jun 2, 2007 14:10:49 GMT -5
Just as I started feeling well, the carpal tunnel in my right hand flared up (I actually have it in both hands - years of computers and guitars...) I can type reasonably well with a wrist rest, but the worst-impaced part of my right hand are my index and middle fingers, which are all red and swollen around the joints, so I can't really use a mouse with my right hand. I had been setting up all the pages as cut-and-paste Dreamweaver templates (one of the things I've been doing behind the scenes) to speed up updating. It's just a minor setback - usually these flare-ups are gone within a week and it started on Wednesday. I'm just a bit slow on the Dreamweaver work since I'm using a mouse with my left hand. But one good thing about being a guitarist for more than 20 years is that my left hand is pretty dexterous, it just feels weird. Hi Kris. That's not so good. I get Arthritis in my right shoulder, and when that is bad I can't do a thing with the computer as the pain is so intense . At the moment its pretty good so I have been slaving away with the flight plans while the going is good. My mouse use in the left hand is .... well..... appalling!! I'll continue hosting my files until you are ready for them. I have quite a few lined up. Some existing and some new. Take care. Paul It's a lot better today, just some stiffness, not too much pain. If I treat it early with a combination of Naproxen (Aleve here in the States) and heating pad and elevating it, I can usually rid myself of it within a week. This is the first attack I've had sice November, and at that time, it was my left hand. I can use a mouse again with my right hand, but I'm still using my left until it's completely gone. One of these days, I'll probably have to have the surgery done, but that will put me out of work for about a month for each hand. Still, I feel lucky that it didn't hit me until last year at 34 - I had a friend who was a cellist and she had to have the surgery done on her left hand at 18 - cellists have some of the worst rates of it, apparently, because of the way they have to strech their fingers to play. Pianists are also up there. IT professionals who play guitars - well, I don't think we were ever surveyed, but I'd imagine the rate is up there. |
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Post by Ralf Maylin on Jun 2, 2007 15:31:25 GMT -5
I like listening to the Ramones although I never heard them when they had their peak. A lot of artists wants us make belive they make "punk" but that's no "punk" at all. And not everybody who sprays some paint on his leather jacket is a "punker". ;D
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Post by Christian Page, RAI on Jun 2, 2007 17:36:12 GMT -5
I like listening to the Ramones although I never heard them when they had their peak. A lot of artists wants us make belive they make "punk" but that's no "punk" at all. And not everybody who sprays some paint on his leather jacket is a "punker". ;D I've been long working on a book on the birth of punk, and it begins long before the Ramones. The Beatles were "punk" before Brian Epstein cleaned them up - you look at them in their Hamburg days circa 1961, with their longish hair, jeans, t-shirts, and leather jackets - where do you you think the Ramones got their look from? In fact the Ramones took their name from the fake last name Paul McCartney used to check into hotels under during the "Beatlemania" days. Yesterday, of course, marked the 40th Anniversary of "Sgt. Pepper" - John Lennon has been a major influence on my musical life. His death in 1980 is when I picked up a guitar, and why I own a Rickenbacker. Then the Ramones came in and all the early punk - but there is a connection, many of these people were influenced by the same artists - before the Beatles, I listened to all the old rockabilly my dad grew up on - Buddy Holly was a huge standout, Gene Vincent another. My dad used to listen to Wolfman Jack late at night in his bedroom after his parents went to bed - that was "bad stuff" back then. A lot of these guys were "punk" before it became a word - Holly was among the first to refuse to sign with a label unless he had full control of his music. That poly-rhythm on "Peggy Sue" that does not use cymbals - that scared people. It seems so weird today, but my dad recalls when that song was banned just because of its beat. Punk has its roots with people like that, and I don't think most modern "punk" artists really understand that. That's "old fart" music to them - punk started with Nirvana and Green Day in the early 1990's...how wrong they are. And the fashion statement thing - I'd like to destroy all Hot Topic stores. |
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Post by jetstar on Jun 4, 2007 6:55:32 GMT -5
Gimmie some T-Rex anyday, Rock On!! ;D
Paul
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Post by Christian Page, RAI on Jun 4, 2007 16:30:51 GMT -5
Gimmie some T-Rex anyday, Rock On!! ;D Paul "Bang a gong, get it on!" Oddly, there's a corollary here, many of the British punk bands cite Glam as an influence - T-Rex, David Bowie, Roxy Music, and such. It's all good stuff - T-Rex were great, Bowie from that era was amazing, Roxy Music, I'm not so fond of. Bryan Ferry annoys me with his pretension. Another band that came from that time I like a lot was Thin Lizzy - poor Phil Lynott, so much talent, but so troubled that he basically killed himself with drugs. It kind of sounded like I slagged Nirvana earlier, but I actually like them. That was a tragedy, but those of us who knew that scene knew it was just a matter of time before Kurt did what he did. But there is no denying that "Smells Like Teen Spirit" - like it or hate it - changed rock music forever. |
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Post by chrisP on Jun 4, 2007 16:43:31 GMT -5
Wasn't there a line in AbFab that went like "...if you remember anything from the '70s, you weren't there"? |
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Post by Christian Page, RAI on Jun 4, 2007 17:38:08 GMT -5
Wasn't there a line in AbFab that went like "...if you remember anything from the '70s, you weren't there"? I don't know what to say here - an AbFab reference? I would make some crack about how gay that is if it wasn't for the fact that on Saturday, I was plodding around the house wearing a t-shirt with Patsy holding a cigarette in one hand and chugging a fifth of Stoli with the other. "Stoli, darling, Stoli!" "Do you think we should have sold Saffie into slavery, darling?" And, yes, there was that statement made about the 1970's, it's a variation on a comment about the 1960's that I think was originally made by Paul Kantner of the Jefferson Airplane. I am an AbFab fan, I have all the episodes on tape, and now that I think about it, my girlfriend looks remarkably like Saffie... |
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