{"id":27633,"date":"2011-04-02T08:40:49","date_gmt":"2011-04-02T12:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/27633\/great-expectations\/"},"modified":"2011-04-02T08:40:49","modified_gmt":"2011-04-02T12:40:49","slug":"great-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/27633\/great-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"not so great expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size: medium;color: #000000\">I more than survived the open mic last night&#8230;I had fun&#8230;ears ringing WAY lots today, but at the time I didn&#8217;t think of consequences&#8230;I think I&#8217;m the only guitarist in MY Musical circle who uses controlled feedback (think Hendrix) when and if the conditions are right&#8230;it DOES require a certain volume level though, and THAT&#8217;S why the ears are ringing so much this morning&#8230;but I think it was worth it&#8230;like Neil Young at his most &#8220;rusty&#8221;&#8230;a couple of my &#8220;stomp boxes&#8221; are on their last legs I think, but they worked last night&#8230;as soon as I arrived, the guy in Charge left&#8211;he was too sick to play&#8230;thankfully he left the bass player and drummer to run things&#8230;but *I* was the opening act&#8211;ugh&#8230;but all&#8217;s well that ends well&#8230;and I got paid more than I thought I would&#8211;which, for better or worse, IS important&#8230;with one or two exceptions, everybody(IMO) played fairly well&#8230;which is ultimately in the ear of the beholder I suppose&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size: medium;color: #000000\">doing a benefit for Japan later today&#8230;mixed feelings about what impact it will have, but on the other hand, a billion (or more) little drops of rain can fill a swimming pool&#8230;and I wanna do SOMETHING&#8230;hopefully I&#8217;ll get some rest before the warm up\/show&#8230;the &#8220;roomie&#8221; might be there, THAT&#8217;S innaresting&#8230;Life is Good&#8230;for which I&#8217;m grateful&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I more than survived the open mic last night&#8230;I had fun&#8230;ears ringing WAY lots today, but at the time I didn&#8217;t think of consequences&#8230;I think I&#8217;m the only guitarist in MY Musical circle who uses controlled feedback (think Hendrix) when and if the conditions are right&#8230;it DOES require a certain volume level though, and THAT&#8217;S [&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-27633","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\/27633","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=27633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}