{"id":11924,"date":"2011-01-21T01:31:25","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T06:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/11924\/matters-start\/"},"modified":"2011-01-21T01:31:25","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T06:31:25","slug":"matters-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/11924\/matters-start\/","title":{"rendered":"sometimes what matters is not how things start, but how they end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: small\">I was feeling &#8220;oogy&#8221; BEFORE I had that medium pizza (with extra cheese) for Dinner&#8230;the chocolate milk shake for dessert surely didn&#8217;t help&#8230;but I went out to the open mic \u00a0anyway&#8230;took my guitar, but left it in the car&#8230;as I was leaving to come home, Charlie asked me if I wanted to play with a sax player (eric) and I said OK&#8230;it wasn&#8217;t too hard to pick songs for him&#8230;I did a &#8220;blooze&#8221; (1 4 5), \u00a0and MOONDANCE with a snippet of WALKING ON THE MOON as a &#8220;vamp&#8221; at the end&#8230;there was a 3rd one that I can&#8217;t remember&#8230;then Charlie (tonight&#8217;s host) switched places with Tom (lead guitar) and joined in for a bunch of songs that nearly featured Eric&#8230;which included YOU MAY BE RIGHT, and a especially &#8220;hot&#8221; version of HOW LONG by Ace&#8211;lotsa trading riffs between me Charlie and Eric&#8230;man it was good&#8230;even did me some twangin&#8217;, Charlie sang MAMA TRIED&#8230;that\u00a0cooked as well in my (currently) NOT so humble opinion&#8230;we also did SPIRIT IN THE NIGHT (also very good, more trading of Musical ideas) and one other one I think&#8230;AND I got the dough for last week&#8217;s gig in Baltimore&#8230;all in all a great way to end what started out as a rather ambiguous day&#8230;NOT just because of me, but I think the evening ended on a high note&#8211;there had been a &#8220;trainwreck&#8221; earlier&#8211;I hate when it happens while I&#8217;m onstage, but it&#8217;s a bit of a drag when it happens to a friend too&#8230;\u00a0A blog or two ago I wrote about the Musician&#8217;s Ego&#8230;mine was stroked to a considerable degree&#8230;*I* know THE TRUTH, but the whole &#8220;band&#8221; was on it this evening&#8230;No longer completely sure what&#8217;s happening Friday night&#8230;but right NOW, Life is supergood&#8230;hope my Fb friends have a great Friday&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was feeling &#8220;oogy&#8221; BEFORE I had that medium pizza (with extra cheese) for Dinner&#8230;the chocolate milk shake for dessert surely didn&#8217;t help&#8230;but I went out to the open mic \u00a0anyway&#8230;took my guitar, but left it in the car&#8230;as I was leaving to come home, Charlie asked me if I wanted to play with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11924","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=11924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}