{"id":30580,"date":"2011-04-16T08:13:58","date_gmt":"2011-04-16T12:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/30580\/hotter-cooler\/"},"modified":"2011-04-16T08:13:58","modified_gmt":"2011-04-16T12:13:58","slug":"hotter-cooler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/30580\/hotter-cooler\/","title":{"rendered":"he was &#8220;hotter&#8221;, but I was &#8220;cooler&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size: medium;color: #000000\">did my first gig last night with a 2nd lead guitarist in the Band&#8230;my &#8220;Boss&#8221; plays some guitar but really he&#8217;s at his best when he plays piano, *I* think he should leave the guitar playing to me&#8230;but this other guy was &#8220;in yer face&#8221;, fast, flashy, and LOUD&#8230;I felt quite inadequate as a guitarist&#8230;but I sang better IMO&#8230;did the &#8220;George Benson bit&#8221;&#8211;sing what yer playing; he did too, AFTER I did it, but that was not HIS best thing IMO&#8230;there was an opening band, they had two guitarists, I&#8217;d say those two and me were more or less at the same level&#8230;there was a girl singer, a good one&#8230;and she was not hard to look at&#8211;of COURSE she was married&#8230;At the end of the night we combined both bands more or less, no wonder my right ear is ringing like Big Ben&#8230;FOUR electric guitars, piano, Bass and Drums&#8230;no wonder Margo couldn&#8217;t hear herself, a common complaint from female singers&#8230;sometimes the biggest thing a Man has is his&#8230;EGO&#8230;But I had fun, I was the best &#8220;me&#8221; I could be (I think) and I&#8217;ll get paid for it&#8230;Got in &#8217;round 3:30am; I can only assume (hope) I&#8217;ll get some more sleep later&#8230;now I gotta go do stuff, including getting my taxes done&#8230;Life is Good&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>did my first gig last night with a 2nd lead guitarist in the Band&#8230;my &#8220;Boss&#8221; plays some guitar but really he&#8217;s at his best when he plays piano, *I* think he should leave the guitar playing to me&#8230;but this other guy was &#8220;in yer face&#8221;, fast, flashy, and LOUD&#8230;I felt quite inadequate as a guitarist&#8230;but [&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-30580","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\/30580","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=30580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}