{"id":25601,"date":"2011-03-25T01:43:25","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T05:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/25601\/ego-healthy\/"},"modified":"2011-03-25T01:43:25","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T05:43:25","slug":"ego-healthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/25601\/ego-healthy\/","title":{"rendered":"the EGO is fairly healthy&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size: medium;color: #000000\">even if the Body is not&#8230;this blog is kinda about the mystery of TALENT, or at least the PERCEPTION of talent&#8230;or the idea that I shouldn&#8217;t be the best I can\u00a0 be if MY best is better than someone else&#8217;s best&#8230;*I* think I&#8217;m a pretty good guitarist AND a pretty good Bass player&#8230;I don&#8217;t have the &#8220;chops&#8221; to play RUSH or VAN HALEN on either instrument but there is a lot I CAN play&#8230;Tonight a &#8220;friend&#8221; of mine asked me to play Bass for him&#8230;I said &#8220;sure&#8221;&#8230;one of the songs he played was a Grateful Dead song&#8230;because I&#8217;m a good mimic (IMO) and because Lesh is just about my favorite Bassist, I played what *I* felt was an appropriate part&#8230;but the Singer criticized me onstage out loud, referring to my &#8220;lead&#8221; bass playing, the implication being (*I* think) that I was deliberately trying to steal HIS spotlight&#8230;well, fuck you man&#8230;had you played FOLSOM PRISON BLUES I just might have played root\/five throughout the whole damn thing&#8230;boring though that would eventually be&#8230;*I* think if yer gonna play a Grateful Dead song ya need to (if possible) put yerself in Phil&#8217;s shoes&#8230;Of COURSE you won&#8217;t fill &#8217;em, but I DO think ya gotta try&#8230;IF there&#8217;s a next time, I will say &#8220;no&#8221; if he asks me; IF I can remember what happened tonight&#8230;and how bad a drummer are you if you can&#8217;t FEEL Cream&#8217;s arrangement of CROSSROADS? If ya don&#8217;t actually KNOW the song or arrangement&#8211;SAY SO!!! It&#8217;s OK to admit ya don&#8217;t know a song&#8230;wouldn&#8217;t that be better than trying to &#8220;wing it&#8221; and screwing it up instead&#8230;The drummer guy kept playing it &#8220;inside out&#8221; for lack of a better phrase&#8230;isn&#8217;t 99.9% of all Western Music on the 2 and 4? THREE times we tried it, COUNTING it out loud&#8230;no good&#8230;and Jack Bruce is another Bass player who plays in a flamboyant way&#8230;so I was prepared to try to emulate him&#8230;I&#8217;m not trying to be an asshole now, but I&#8217;m probably being one anyway&#8230;and I don&#8217;t much care&#8230;I&#8217;m NOT exceptional, and I THINK I know what I <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">can&#8217;t<\/span> do; sometimes it&#8217;s difficult to play Music with people who are not yet at the level I think I&#8217;m at&#8230;my question is: what are THEY hearing in THEIR head when *I* am hearing a train coming off the tracks&#8230;imagine a surgeon performing a procedure and THEN asking, &#8220;Did I do that right?&#8221; Well, don&#8217;t you KNOW? Do *I* make mistakes? Hell yeah&#8230;I hear every one of &#8217;em&#8230;Now the question you could ask ME is &#8220;why do you go to these jams?&#8221; Well, to me it&#8217;s nearly worth it to take a chance on maybe playing with people who MIGHT know what they&#8217;re doing&#8211;last night, aside from the &#8220;house&#8221; drummer, two of the other drummers were very good, 2 out of 4 ain&#8217;t bad&#8230;maybe if I had the evening to do over again, I wouldn&#8217;t&#8230;but I dunno that for a fact&#8230;ears ringing lots, but I&#8217;m OK otherwise&#8230;maybe&#8230;more sleep (at night) would have been nice&#8230;supposed to go to another jam tonight&#8230;maybe 12 hours from now I&#8217;ll want to&#8230;I can&#8217;t say anything good or bad about somebody&#8217;s jam session until I&#8217;ve tried one&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>even if the Body is not&#8230;this blog is kinda about the mystery of TALENT, or at least the PERCEPTION of talent&#8230;or the idea that I shouldn&#8217;t be the best I can\u00a0 be if MY best is better than someone else&#8217;s best&#8230;*I* think I&#8217;m a pretty good guitarist AND a pretty good Bass player&#8230;I don&#8217;t have [&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-25601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25601","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=25601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}