{"id":29011,"date":"2011-04-09T01:55:30","date_gmt":"2011-04-09T05:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/29011\/pissy-pissy\/"},"modified":"2011-04-09T01:55:30","modified_gmt":"2011-04-09T05:55:30","slug":"pissy-pissy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/29011\/pissy-pissy\/","title":{"rendered":"pissy is as pissy does"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size: medium;color: #000000\">went to an O.M. to play a few with my friend Lou&#8230;in the middle of our set, some guy jumped &#8220;onstage&#8221; to add his caterwauling harmony to whatever Beatle song we were doing&#8230;eventually he realized I was not happy, and apologized&#8230;Now you might say (and you&#8217;d be right) no biggie, it&#8217;s just a jam, man&#8230;relax&#8230;maybe it&#8217;s MY ego or my hangup but to me it IS a big deal&#8230;I don&#8217;t jump onstage uninvited unless I know ahead of time it&#8217;s OK&#8230;It&#8217;s true that I used to, but I don&#8217;t anymore&#8230;I DO have a standing invitation from one or two of my friends, and once tonight I took advantage of that&#8211;for about 15 seconds&#8230;so the guy asked me to play alongside him and I said &#8220;Not tonight&#8221;, which pissed HIM off&#8230;and he got mad again when he only got three songs&#8230;which is what everybody else got, unless they got four&#8230;I pulled the plug on my set with Lou after three songs I think, Lou had planned on four&#8230;Musicians and their Egos, sheesh&#8230;but I heard some great three part dissonance&#8230;it&#8217;s gotten old, but it just amazes me how deaf some people can be to their own ability or lack thereof&#8230;I probably should balance the tone of this blog by saying there were some good moments, some competent performances&#8230;I played some bass, sang some harmonies&#8230;every open mic has some good performances, I just dunno why there aren&#8217;t more&#8230;the best Musicians are the busiest, so I must be pretty good at this Music stuff&#8230;going out Saturday night to do a bunch of listening, that can be fun too&#8230;Life is mostly good&#8230; good\/bad, up\/down, yin\/yang&#8230;that&#8217;s usually how it works&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>went to an O.M. to play a few with my friend Lou&#8230;in the middle of our set, some guy jumped &#8220;onstage&#8221; to add his caterwauling harmony to whatever Beatle song we were doing&#8230;eventually he realized I was not happy, and apologized&#8230;Now you might say (and you&#8217;d be right) no biggie, it&#8217;s just a jam, man&#8230;relax&#8230;maybe [&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-29011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29011","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=29011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}