Weird, and not sure what to make of it, but I used to dread cold weather when it came to playing my bass. Fingers always felt like rigamortis settling in if the ambient temp was less than 80f or so. I needed to be sweating in order for my fingers to feel limber.
Now, even as we are in a cold spell and coming in from outside with hands freezing, the cold doesn't seem to effect me now. Been playing since I was 6, and this is the first time I have realized this.
Matter of fact, the cold makes my fingers feel like'sticks' of wood. I guess it took me this many years of playing before realizing that I could have actually been able to gig in cold weather, but back then, I hated the cold!
I'm just wondering out loud if it is perhaps that I play differently now than I played then, or if I am really just more tolerant of environmental conditions now. I just know that when it (my hands) was cold, I almost hated to play my bass. Now I beat my hands up playing after shoveling snow!
