FriendBurst Blog

Did a show last night with an old friend …we did one Thursday, and there’s one more tonight…last night’s show was better than Thursday’s IMO even though it meant I worked harder…maybe that’s why I got seven hours sleep last night…Just two guys with acoustic guitars; sometimes you don’t need anymore than that…the Thursday night show was a bit of a sonic nightmare, I thought…the Bass and keyboards may have been unecessary…I think the more cars a train has, the more likely there will be a train wreck…the last time we did any gigs together was about 6 years ago…I’ve grown a little since then…I’ve since realized that maybe I was put here to be a Musical co-pilot…I may have had aspirations to be the pilot, but at some point I realized that I wasn’t quite cut out for that…I’ve been onstage alone with just my guitar…and hated it…now I wonder why I ever did it in the first place–the needy ego? Maybe…but now I know better…after the gig was over, I kept coming back to how good Ray and I had been–with NO rehearsal, although I’m starting to feel as though the Thursday night gig WAS a rehearsal  ha ha  …To some degree, I was kinda bummed that, although the audience seemed to like us last night, they had no idea that what they saw was two guys doing only their 2nd gig (no rehearsal) in about 6 years, NOT some well-honed tight professional hard working duo…maybe that’s part of the dilemma of being a performer–to appear to have yer act together even when ya don’t…normally I would take a more honest approach (“Yes folks, that was a boo boo”) but not everyone thinks the way I do, and I’m not in charge…But I had fun, and I even made a few bucks…

in other Musical news, a friend of mine is about to release her album…I did LOTS of work on it, but most of that work ended up not being used in the final mix…and I swear on my Mother’s grave that’s OK, but looking back I think I woulda preferred that the Producer be honest with me, and/or more communicative…NOBODY, including me, ever said “Where’s the guitar solo go?”…There’s a fair amount of “punctuation” or “noodling” going on but I don’t think there are any solos…and again, that’s OK, it’s not my album…her vocal parts are awesome, *I* didn’t know she had those in her head…I guess as relaxed as I thought I was, the studio is still a rather intimidating place for me…but put me onstage without a net and I’m fine…

it’s a beautiful day, I should be out and about, but I’m trying to preserve my energy for tonight’s gig…still, Life is Good, and for that I’m grateful…