Lunch Thread....Head's Up!

[OrangeChannel]

Lunch sadly is no different than last week...Dunkin Donuts Coffee and a fake egg sammich.

Lesson: Thoroughly stretch out before you play your instrument, or move furniture....I'm dealing with a horridly bad sprain of my right wrist right now....I can't type so well and hurts massivley to play the geetars...Anybody else deal with injuries that become more or less a nuisance and inhibit your playing?

Music Today:
Brazil - A Hostage and the Meaning of Life
Bad Religion - The Empire Strikes First
Story of the Year - Page Ave (this one's a guilty pleasure...)

 

[koogie2k]

Lunch today for the Koogie's.....Olive Garden. I had the soup, salad, and breadsticks with my wife.

Injuries....yep. I had what I thought was a torn rotator cuff to the left shoulder. Made playing the axe painful so I didn't play. Basically I cried like a little girl.....hehehehe.
Then, I saw the specialist who said it was not torn, just pinched the bersa sack in there and he gave me a cortizone shot and sent me home to play guitar. I feel much much better and have been playing since. OC, hope you feel better and get back to playing bro!

Music today....wife and I bought a CD of classical guitar love songs. Very nice playing. I love classical guitar. Haven't listened to anything else today.

 

[dan ratcliffe]

Lunch: Turkey & stuffing sandwiches

Injuries:

I'm a pretty small guy so my arms and hands are fairly susceptible to being banged about when lifting, decorating and such. I often have to push beyond my natural physical capabilities. The inordinate amount of time I seem to spend in front of computers doesn't help me either....

I always have a pain somewhere. Recently, its most of my right arm. It makes playing guitar hard at times. Its not so bad when you've got a bunch of adrenaline running through you during a gig (thats not happened since last year) but I notice it more in rehearsals and practising, they can be a strain. I've started to look after myself a little more with vitamins, cod liver oil, exercise, cutting down on alcohol and am even trying to get more sleep too!

As for warm ups, the type of gigs we play, where there's often no time to warm up, my band tends to start cold with no stretching at all. There's not much you can do about it so we just have to tough it out, and pace the set. I guess it helps that we're not an out and out 160 bpm shred band. Gigging 5 minutes after soundcheck is basically a regular occurance where I live, so you just deal with it and use it.

Music: Amplifier (their debut album), Ash (Meltdown), my bands' music (as always!), Alien Ant Farm (TruANT), Marillion (Marbles), Toto (Kingdom Of Desire).

 

[deadringer]

Well I have no clue about lunch yet, my wife is 8 months pregnant and her cravings vary incredibly.

I haven't much injury to share but I did spend the night in the hospital last Thursday. I had surgery on my foot last year and a month or so after developed an infection. We fought it off and won, so we thought. It turned out it was still there waiting to rear it's ugly head again. So Thursday morning I'm sitting there minding my own business when I get a fever.... from hell! Twelve hours later I'm in the ER with a bunch of tubes in me. I got home the next morning and am on the nastiest antibiotic I've ever had. It makes me nautious (SP?) 24/7. Okay whining done.

I've been on my ass a few days now so I've pretty much listened to anything and everything I could get my hands on. VH1 and VH1 Classic have had the METAL MANIA stuff on a lot lately which is good for memories and laughs!

 

[Jimi D]

Well, for lunch today I had a greek salad and yogurt, and an apple and a mess of grapes... I plan to eat a deluxe pizza for supper, though.

Re: injuries, I play a Programmer in the daytime, so I do a lot of computer time and have had to fight slight bouts of CTS and RSI, but I learned early how serious the issues were, so I've been very careful over the last ten years... Unfortunately, I spent a lot of my misspent youth breaking my hands on other people's heads, so I have encroaching arthritus... I also lost the tip of my middle finger on my playing hand in a home accident many moons ago - my ex-wife had some people moving a new piano into the house through the back door, and I came in from work via the front - a gust of wind caught her curtains and I tried to grab them out of the way of the closing door... oops... That hurt, and I lost all the meat to about of a third of the way down the nail, and the tip of the finger was shattered... I couldn't play for six months and then I pretty much had to relearn how to use that finger...

I've been listening to Johnny A's latest and something entitled known unknown by Vernon Reid's new group, Masque...

 

[dwf1004]

No lunch...not hungry. (could do me good to skip a meal every now and then anyhow! )

"Vernon Reid's new group, Masque..." I thought Living Colour got back together for a new album? I was reading that in a guitar mag last year. Hmmph...guess that worked out well.

I was never a big fan of doing the whole stretch thing pre-play until about a year ago. I started doing some of the exercises that were relayed to me a la the Petrucci "Rock Discipline" DVD. Oh yeah, big difference...and I preach it wholly.

On a more physical note, I have to stretch practically my whole body the minute I wake up in the morning, otherwise it could be messy.

 

[lostrebel]

They are back together...This is just one of Vernon Reed's side projects.

 

[jongitarz]

Roast beef and vicodan ( wisdom tooth problem) Listening to: Allman Bros live at the Beacon..Derek Trucks, Warren Haynes, Otiel Burbridge..Unreal stuff. Also re discovering Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros...I miss Joe....Now I must sleep

 

[SGMan88]

Vicodan...mmmmm...j/k...hope you get to feelin better

 

[peter71]

Today everyone at work is taking me out for Indian food for my last day. My contract is ending and I am not sure what I will do next! Yikes!

As for injuries, I was a football player for most of my life and towards the end of my college career, I seperated both of my shoulders. It seems like something that would have little to do with my guitar playing, but every once in a while when my shoulders get sore, it kind of makes my left hand tingle a bit. I also get soreness in my hands from it. I have never done pre playing exercises, but I would be intersted in hearing about the ones you guys have mentioned in this thread.

As for what I am listening to, a lot of Sugar, Peter Gabriel and Mark Knopfler.

I have also been listening to an online station here in Seatlle WA called KEXP (www.kexp.org). Lots of Indie pop and obscure rock. Good Stuff!

 

[koogie2k]

I just got Petrucci's Rock Discipline and he really gets into stretches and warm up exercises. I already had a decent routine, been playing his along with mine...made a big difference already. Give it a looksy and see for yourself.

 

[OrangeChannel]

I just got that on DVD last week since I can't locate my VHS version (VHS what's that? hehehehehe.Not BETAMAX! there you go). I need to sit with it and regain my speed and accuracy.