Originally Posted by: LloydWConcider the alturnative to getting older. Heating pad helps, Ive already tried that. So does some simple finger exersize, before and after playing. Im also going to take up playing the keyboard, for a change of how I use my fingers. Even though i love the guitar, I dont want to get to the point where I cant play it at all, and because i love music, not just the guitar, a keyboard will help out. Ya I hated Nixon too. I stood on a flight line on Okinawa and watched the human reackage and dead bodies come back from Nam. I hate war more, I dont care who runs it or for what reason. But this is not guitar, or is it? Many good songs came out of the nam years.

I'm with you brother. I missed 'nam by a few years but I did my time for Unc too. Known way too many good people get totally trashed for no good reason. Ain't that the key? No good reason.

Cool idea on the keys. I know what you mean about music. It's been about the only constant in my life that remains as positive and influential now as it ever did. I still have to laugh when I think about hearing Jimi Hendrix on an AM transistor radio while delivering papers in the early mornings. Once you heard some of that good ol' music, you never quite looked at life the same way again.

Good luck with the keyboard and hope your fingers heal up good. Get back on the guitar man. It's the tonic that heals.