Guitar Gloves.
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MadWerewolfBoy
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From the replies of people who seem to be indifferent about the thread's initial purpose, I reckon that there're some here who think that this whole gloves thing is a joke...
My views are similar but not that extreme though. Gloves impede your playing in one way or another and they make your already sweaty palms sweat more. If we're claiming to sweat as much was we are (until sweat flows down our fingers (which imo will not happen unless you're playing with your hands over the fretboard)), how much sweat can gloves absorb? Wouldn't our whole hand be soaked in an irritating damp piece of cloth (which we think would save us from difficulty in SLIDING our palms up and down necks?)
What's more logical and practical for me is, if while performing on stage, sweaty palms, just wipe hands on shirt, pants, towel, handkerchief.
If that's too practical, maybe we'd like to try the surgical method which involves operation on some nerves that prevent us from ever excreting sweat from chest level up.
Not fashionable enough? get those black leather gloves with lots of holes and chain blings for some fashion therapy. If people ask me why I wear them, I'll say I have sweaty palms! I'll definitely be entertaining quite a bunch of people...
My views are similar but not that extreme though. Gloves impede your playing in one way or another and they make your already sweaty palms sweat more. If we're claiming to sweat as much was we are (until sweat flows down our fingers (which imo will not happen unless you're playing with your hands over the fretboard)), how much sweat can gloves absorb? Wouldn't our whole hand be soaked in an irritating damp piece of cloth (which we think would save us from difficulty in SLIDING our palms up and down necks?)
What's more logical and practical for me is, if while performing on stage, sweaty palms, just wipe hands on shirt, pants, towel, handkerchief.
If that's too practical, maybe we'd like to try the surgical method which involves operation on some nerves that prevent us from ever excreting sweat from chest level up.
Not fashionable enough? get those black leather gloves with lots of holes and chain blings for some fashion therapy. If people ask me why I wear them, I'll say I have sweaty palms! I'll definitely be entertaining quite a bunch of people...
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Ized
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it is a joke.....all this leather is going to make it all hot and stuffy down there :lol:
speaking of which, i remember me and my bandmates having a gig at tp, and there was this particular joker who wore gloves to play guitar.... all of us were laughing our asses off when the gloves were clearly impeding his playing, he cocked up his solos when the gloves came in the way of his bends and killed the notes when he attempted a few slides here and there...
He was wearing the sort of gloves that exposed the fingers, btw
looks cool but certainly not kool to mess up your solo :lol:
speaking of which, i remember me and my bandmates having a gig at tp, and there was this particular joker who wore gloves to play guitar.... all of us were laughing our asses off when the gloves were clearly impeding his playing, he cocked up his solos when the gloves came in the way of his bends and killed the notes when he attempted a few slides here and there...
He was wearing the sort of gloves that exposed the fingers, btw
looks cool but certainly not kool to mess up your solo :lol:
Godspeed64
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To each their own though! Haha
fenderrules
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lol i remember using my bmt issued hand gloves and i tried riffing on my guitar with them on, both picking and fretting hand..
and i thought i was zakk wyylde!!
looked cool, but it slowed me down hahaha
yeah lah, its only about the image only. besides, the gloves synster uses are like so...emo-poserish man. it ruins his image more.
emo pricks..lol
and i thought i was zakk wyylde!!
looked cool, but it slowed me down hahaha
yeah lah, its only about the image only. besides, the gloves synster uses are like so...emo-poserish man. it ruins his image more.
emo pricks..lol
EugeneSmasher
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Agreed. I don't really see any advantages of wearing gloves other than looking cool. But a good idea would be pads worn on the picking hand's fingertips to provide more friction and grip, so the picks won't fly out so easily.
