{"id":30194,"date":"2011-04-14T12:02:09","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T16:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/30194\/too-much-alcohol-music-mix\/"},"modified":"2011-04-14T12:02:09","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T16:02:09","slug":"too-much-alcohol-music-mix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/30194\/too-much-alcohol-music-mix\/","title":{"rendered":"(too much) Alcohol and Music don&#8217;t mix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size: medium\">I will try not to be preachy or sanctimonious; and for some people a moderate amount of booze is plenty&#8230;went to a jam last night&#8230;one of the guitarists had IMO too much to drink&#8230;at the very least I was annoyed&#8230;he seems to be a nice person, and I do appreciate his sense of (musical) adventure&#8211;we played two rarely played Allman Bros. tunes (AIN&#8217;T WASTIN&#8217; TIME and ELIZABETH REED) and they weren&#8217;t horrible&#8211;I played Bass&#8230;but as the night wore on, he got more and more drunk&#8230;maybe MAYBE he felt inadequate, that&#8217;s sounds conceited but like it or not, it IS possible&#8230;he&#8217;s a pretty good player and singer, he just seems to lack experience; that&#8217;s what jams are for&#8211;playing alone at home will only get ya so far&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size: medium\">Dunno what the hell I&#8217;m doing tonight; probably should rest up for Friday night&#8217;s gig (my ears and the rest of me), but I doubt if I will&#8230;a lot can happen in seven hours&#8230;I&#8217;ve got two choices, besides staying home, each has their pros and cons&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size: medium\">ADDENDUM&#8211;the smaller cozier (slightly claustrophobic) place would be easier on my ears, but I DID put new strings on the electric guitar and I want them broken in BEFORE tomorrow night&#8217;s gig&#8230;so I&#8217;m going to the bigger, noisier, louder place&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will try not to be preachy or sanctimonious; and for some people a moderate amount of booze is plenty&#8230;went to a jam last night&#8230;one of the guitarists had IMO too much to drink&#8230;at the very least I was annoyed&#8230;he seems to be a nice person, and I do appreciate his sense of (musical) adventure&#8211;we [&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-30194","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\/30194","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=30194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}