SamTherapy posted at 5:09AM Tue, 03 May 2016 - #4267752

I still play guitar but my hands feel like they're on fire after a bit. Tell you what, though, all that macho crap about heavy strings is just that... crap. Billy Gibbons gets monster tone with very light strings, so I'm switching down to lighter sets on all my axes. Except the bass. I really don't think a set of 8's would cut it. :D

It's mainly my knees, ankles and hips with the old arthrits, so star jumps are out of the question now. :lol:

The lightest gauge I could play and not bust an E string were 9's. I tried 8's for awhile but went back to 9's after I went through 6 E strings in the span of a gig. Now I mostly sit behind the board and record and mix my fellow musicians. My brother wants to put together a family band with me at vocals. Yeah, right.

If I had a nickle for ever time a woman told me to get lost, I could buy Manhattan.