Subject: Level 42 Digest, #187 ===================== * LEVEL 42 DIGEST * ===================== Digest 187 Thursday, 09/01/94 78 subscribers Today's messages: Re: Thumb tape ------------------------------ From: "Lars-Ove Karlsson" Organization: IAR SYSTEMS AB Date: Wed, 31 Aug 1994 13:09:47 CET Subject: Re: Thumb tape > From: Jyrki Petsalo > Date: Tue, 30 Aug 1994 21:27:18 +0300 (EETDST) > Subject: Re: Level 42 Digest, #185 > > > > Mark's thumb is wrapped with black electrical tape. Bassists use that to > > > supress blister swelling from all that slappin'. > > In Helsinki Live -91 he threw "the thing" to the audience. I was standing > in the first row (3 meters from M.King!) and was quite close to the guy > who caught it. It looked like hard plastic, but I didn't get to actually > feel it. > > > We do??!! After slapping for many years, neither I nor any musician friends, > > professional or amature, have seen or done that. The callus built up from I know the guy who got the "tape", I know he mentioned it to me in one of his letters, I'll see if he mention what it was made of, his name is Markus Lahtinen. -- e-mail: love @ iar.se Murphy's laws on technology: All things are possible except skiing through a revolving door.