pissy is as pissy does
went to an O.M. to play a few with my friend Lou…in the middle of our set, some guy jumped “onstage” to add his caterwauling harmony to whatever Beatle song we were doing…eventually he realized I was not happy, and apologized…Now you might say (and you’d be right) no biggie, it’s just a jam, man…relax…maybe it’s MY ego or my hangup but to me it IS a big deal…I don’t jump onstage uninvited unless I know ahead of time it’s OK…It’s true that I used to, but I don’t anymore…I DO have a standing invitation from one or two of my friends, and once tonight I took advantage of that–for about 15 seconds…so the guy asked me to play alongside him and I said “Not tonight”, which pissed HIM off…and he got mad again when he only got three songs…which is what everybody else got, unless they got four…I pulled the plug on my set with Lou after three songs I think, Lou had planned on four…Musicians and their Egos, sheesh…but I heard some great three part dissonance…it’s gotten old, but it just amazes me how deaf some people can be to their own ability or lack thereof…I probably should balance the tone of this blog by saying there were some good moments, some competent performances…I played some bass, sang some harmonies…every open mic has some good performances, I just dunno why there aren’t more…the best Musicians are the busiest, so I must be pretty good at this Music stuff…going out Saturday night to do a bunch of listening, that can be fun too…Life is mostly good… good/bad, up/down, yin/yang…that’s usually how it works…