{"id":112627,"date":"2013-11-03T01:13:09","date_gmt":"2013-11-03T05:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/112627\/almost-2\/"},"modified":"2013-11-03T01:13:09","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T05:13:09","slug":"almost-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/112627\/almost-2\/","title":{"rendered":"almost"},"content":{"rendered":"

while I know so little about the guy, Rick (the R in MSR) has been a friend of mine for about 20 years…I knew he was\/is in a band called the Unforgiven, but I hadn’t seen them play for many a year–until tonight…Rick invited me to come hear them play (and possibly sit in) at a place close to me, and the roomie graciously allowed me to use her vehicle to get there…<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

They started at 9PM…by 9:30 I was thinking of sneaking out…I was seriously thinking of writing Rick an e-mail and telling him truthfully how I felt…I probably woulda lost another friend, and I feel like I don’t have that many these days as it is…Then it belatedly occurred to me that they, either individually or as a band, needed time to warm up–I know *I* do…I suspect some (most?) Musicians warm up BEFORE they hit the stage…I hardly ever did and neither did MSR…As the night went on they got a bit better…I joined in on guitar for a few numbers…I think I might have made them a better band, if only slightly…I’m so glad things turned around…And while *I* thought they were so-so, the members of the audience I talked to seemed to like ’em, as did the guy who hired them…that’s the more important thing–what the audience thinks…I made $10…that was a surprise, but it goes to the roomie, so to ME it feels like I broke even and that’s OK…<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

ADDENDUM–I DO think a 2nd guitar or keyboard would make a big difference…and it feels like there’s a case of dueling frontmen going on…NOT because he’s my friend, but *I* would vote for Rick, Rob sounds to me like he’s been in Las Vegas too much…or maybe he used to be a game show host–there, I used BOTH metaphors lol…And IMO “Philly” needs to NOT talk between songs–this is clearly a case of the pot calling the kettle black btw…Now, Rob as the main lead singer might work; leave the rototoms and bell tree at home…which leaves more room for a Music stand if ya have<\/span> to have the lyrics in front of ya…
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while I know so little about the guy, Rick (the R in MSR) has been a friend of mine for about 20 years…I knew he was\/is in a band called the Unforgiven, but I hadn’t seen them play for many a year–until tonight…Rick invited me to come hear them play (and possibly sit in) at […]<\/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-112627","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\/112627","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=112627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}