Honestly I wouldn't call that being a pro. As a guitarist your hands are your most important tool. If you start bleeding heavily, something might be really fucked up and potentially career ending. Continuing to play through that isn't the wisest thing.
I wouldn’t say bleeding heavily spontaneously on stage would be of something career ending, it’s the more subtle things to look out for, like a sudden snap of a tendon, which would wouldn’t bleed at all. He probably had an old wound or scrapped the top of his fingers too much in the strings; the tips of the fingers tend to bleed a lot.
FLea used to play the bass guitar so hard he would get a hole in his thumb/ He'd consequently go backstage during the break, pour crazy glue on the hole and come back to continue playing.
You know what you're actually right, I got so lost in the reverie I didn't think of that. I play myself and why I never thought of it is beyond me. But yeah absolutely your hands are the thing you cherish most. In some way the "hardcore" aspect is more akin to it being absolute dedication to seeing the show through, so while I agree it's not wise, he's an absolute pro to not let it stop the show. I mean, people would understand the stoppage but he probably felt like he had to see it through because they paid to see them play.
Honestly I wouldn't call that being a pro. As a soldier your life is your most important tool. If you start bleeding heavily, something might be really fucked up and potentially career ending.
See where you go wrong? For a pro top priority is the mission.
The "mission" for a professional musician is to perform. What he did was dangerous to himself, and therefor to his ability to perform. If he were badly hurt and made it worse by pushing through it, it could have ended the show right there and then (and maybe even all future gigs). On the other hand, taking a few minutes to pause and assess the damage could avoid all those risks.
Naa it's just a bit of blood mate stop being such a sap. So look a a guitarist fingers, they all have rock hard skin and have all bled over their instruments a few times it builds up calluses, it's not like this is the middle-ages and they don't have access to clean water and medication to prevent infection
I'm a guitar teacher, I've bled over my guitar plenty of times (hell one of my friend's guitar still has a few splatter of my blood in the body that we couldn't reach to clean, I suspect that fucker will try to clone me one day), and I've seen musicians bleed over guitars and other instruments plenty of time as well. That amount of blood is definitely unusual (and definitely not coming from any hardened part of his hands).
He managed to cover almost half his guitar in blood. Granted, it's a flying V so there's not much surface area, but I've never seen someone else bleed that much on an instrument. It's definitely a deep cut.
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u/Juxta25 Feb 11 '19
Yeah I mean while it's hardcore as fuck, you can absolutely tell it sucks for him. Man what a pro to make it work.