{"id":27418,"date":"2011-04-01T00:36:22","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T04:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/27418\/god-knows\/"},"modified":"2011-04-01T00:36:22","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T04:36:22","slug":"god-knows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/27418\/god-knows\/","title":{"rendered":"Only God Knows&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size: medium;color: #000000\">No, it&#8217;s not a Beach Boys song sung sideways&#8230;I&#8217;ve nearly become obsessed with the idea that some really UN-talented people must be hearing something in their head 180 degrees opposite to what *I* and others are hearing&#8230;Tonight I heard these guys using Musical instruments to simulate the sound of a car crash, successfully&#8230;Presuming his (or her?) existence, I would say only God could explain what they were doing&#8230;a Les Paul (copy?) in the hands of someone who apparently had no idea how to tune it&#8211;that&#8217;s criminal IMO&#8230;but MY performance (with some other guys) of SATURDAY NIGHT&#8217;S ALRIGHT FOR FIGHTING was not all that bad, I&#8217;ve NEVER played\/sung it in public&#8230;in my car yes, onstage? No&#8230;and that was after driving 70 miles from a rehearsal in Baltimore; Forgive the bragadacio, but it was WAY better than the car crash band&#8230;thanx to my friend Sue for the cheat sheet&#8230;played and sang a bunch aside from that, including some Bass&#8230;I say again, I&#8217;m not exceptional&#8230;but I ain&#8217;t half bad&#8230;It may be true that I have a low tolerance for mediocrity, but I&#8217;m working on it&#8230;a little&#8230;I&#8217;m all warmed up for the gig Friday night (&#8220;house&#8221; guitarist at the Open Mic) which as always runs the gamut from the very talented to &#8220;you&#8217;ve GOT to be kidding&#8221; and it&#8217;s April Fool&#8217;s Day, my least favorite holiday I think&#8230;but Life is Good, so I&#8217;m fairly happy&#8230;pardon my narciscism (sp?) it&#8217;s temporary, trust me&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, it&#8217;s not a Beach Boys song sung sideways&#8230;I&#8217;ve nearly become obsessed with the idea that some really UN-talented people must be hearing something in their head 180 degrees opposite to what *I* and others are hearing&#8230;Tonight I heard these guys using Musical instruments to simulate the sound of a car crash, successfully&#8230;Presuming his (or [&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-27418","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\/27418","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=27418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}