{"id":106988,"date":"2013-05-22T00:39:57","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T04:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/106988\/its-good-to-be-back\/"},"modified":"2013-05-22T00:39:57","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T04:39:57","slug":"its-good-to-be-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/106988\/its-good-to-be-back\/","title":{"rendered":"it&#8217;s good to be back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">it was 7:30PM when I got off the Metro&#8230;I heard a friend of mine singing MAN ON THE MOON by REM&#8230;he was &#8220;busking&#8221;&#8230;without giving it much thought I let loose a vocal part&#8211;and found that my voice had indeed returned!!! The Metro station has GREAT acoustics&#8230;I then went to the O.M. with Lou and (eventually) played 4 songs&#8230;couldn&#8217;t hear my guitar, but I didn&#8217;t much care&#8230;the vocals were good&#8230;The highlight of the evening for ME was when I took the stage UNINVITED and sang GUINEVERE with a guy I knew&#8211;it was a 9.5 on a scale of ten&#8230;He seemed quite pleased&#8211;THAT felt good&#8230;He coulda been annoyed to say the least&#8230;I probably shouldn&#8217;t admit this but the performance brought tears to my eyes, dunno why&#8230;but it was damn good&#8230;<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">I think the MSR gig on Friday will be fine&#8230;and the Sunday gig too&#8230;As for Karmafest (Saturday) with SLR, who\u00a0 knows? We rehearsed TWICE within a week, but that doesn&#8217;t mean we&#8217;ll be perfect&#8230;Anything can happen and probably will&#8230;I bought strings for the acoustic, but I&#8217;m not currently sure what I did with &#8217;em&#8230;But as far as I can tell, Life is Good&#8230;<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">UPDATE&#8211;it&#8217;s possible (maybe) that I MIGHT have walked outta the Music store without the strings&#8230;I remembered the picks though&#8230;they weren&#8217;t the brand of strings I normally use so maybe I wasn&#8217;t supposed to have &#8217;em in the first place&#8230;I guess I&#8217;ll try that store near the workplace, expensive though they seem to be to me&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>it was 7:30PM when I got off the Metro&#8230;I heard a friend of mine singing MAN ON THE MOON by REM&#8230;he was &#8220;busking&#8221;&#8230;without giving it much thought I let loose a vocal part&#8211;and found that my voice had indeed returned!!! The Metro station has GREAT acoustics&#8230;I then went to the O.M. with Lou and (eventually) [&hellip;]<\/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-106988","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\/106988","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=106988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}