{"id":104400,"date":"2013-03-15T01:15:47","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T05:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/104400\/the-ego-ran-amok-and-im-ok-with-that\/"},"modified":"2013-03-15T01:15:47","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T05:15:47","slug":"the-ego-ran-amok-and-im-ok-with-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/104400\/the-ego-ran-amok-and-im-ok-with-that\/","title":{"rendered":"the Ego ran amok–and I’m OK with that"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went to the Memorial service for my friend in DC…saw way lotsa people I hadn’t seen in years…then I went to Lunch with one of them (a former bandmate) then onto the workplace THEN the Open Mic Tribute…I did my one “official” song; thankfully I was accompanied by a former “jammin‘ buddy” on harmonica…I didn’t wanna go it alone…I think my performance was a “7” on a scale of 10…I then made LOTSA appearances onstage in various capacities–harmonies, lead guitar, bass guitar…DRUMS…kinda sounded like Stewart Moon or Keith Copeland…Talk about a needy Ego–but I don’t (yet) care…It felt good and most likely sounded good…most of those appearances were AUTHORIZED, although sometimes the authorization was coerced…As *I* remember it, only one (a harmony part on IN MY LIFE) was not officially sanctioned…I think I can guarantee that tongues will be waggin’ soon enuff–and I still don’t (yet) care…hopefully I’ll be able to get plenty of sleep tonight…<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

ADDENDUM–got 6 hours, not too bad…could still use a couple more though…soon…<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

LATER–got a couple more hours…still thinkin’ about last night…one of the performers WANTS to be\u00a0 a singer…I wish she would give up that idea…but I’m not gonna go on about how desperately she seems to wanna be the center of attention…it IS pathetic, but I’m gonna try not to care…that would be hypocritical considering my behavior last night<\/font>…I’ll wait a few days… <\/font><\/font>
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I went to the Memorial service for my friend in DC…saw way lotsa people I hadn’t seen in years…then I went to Lunch with one of them (a former bandmate) then onto the workplace THEN the Open Mic Tribute…I did my one “official” song; thankfully I was accompanied by a former “jammin‘ buddy” on harmonica…I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}