{"id":15418,"date":"2011-02-10T10:37:03","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T15:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/15418\/musical-mystery\/"},"modified":"2011-02-10T10:37:03","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T15:37:03","slug":"musical-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/15418\/musical-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"a musical mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"

being a middle-aged Musician has some<\/span> advantages…I’m not obsessed with making you pay attention to only ME…the open mic scene seems to be full of musicians determined to strut their stuff no matter what…last night I heard\/saw a drummer drop a stick (I used to do that) and lose the beat, but he NEVER got it back…maybe MAYBE he couldn’t hear the Bass guitar enuff to know that he was off…or maybe MAYBE he hasn’t learned how to listen to the other players…admittedly it’s taken me years to learn this stuff…I try to listen to whoever is on stage, unless I think they’re hardly worth listening to (“bad” being a relative term) but even then, most of the time it’s about the overall sound of the “band” IMO…Open mics can be a form of networking I guess, but I haven’t properly exploited that concept to my advantage…As far as the Wed Nite Jam in Bowie goes, the “blues only” format is starting to wear a bit thin…it’s not that I’m such a phenomenal guitarist, and know everything I need to know…I know enough to know that I don’t know everything…I can’t\/won’t speak for anyone else, but I certainly do know when I make a mistake…I sometimes wonder if some musicians hear theirs…and (whispers) a “professional” doesn’t let on if\/when he or she DOES make a mistake–f**k that, I prefer the honest approach…and I’m a bit tired of not quite hearing the sound that I’m used to hearing (MY sound) the answer to that being all too obvious–I should bring MY amp…I just have to decide if it’s worth it for the brief time I might be onstage…the Ego rears its’ ugly head again…but other than financially, today Life is (fairly) Good…<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

being a middle-aged Musician has some advantages…I’m not obsessed with making you pay attention to only ME…the open mic scene seems to be full of musicians determined to strut their stuff no matter what…last night I heard\/saw a drummer drop a stick (I used to do that) and lose the beat, but he NEVER got […]<\/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-15418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15418","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=15418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}