{"id":44518,"date":"2011-06-16T09:43:25","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T13:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/44518\/now\/"},"modified":"2011-06-16T09:43:25","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T13:43:25","slug":"now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/44518\/now\/","title":{"rendered":"why now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#000000\"><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">going North to give a friend&#8217;s Dad guitar lessons&#8230;the ONLY stressful element of this undertaking is the student&#8217;s timing&#8230;I&#8217;m not at all sure why, but THAT gets on my nerves a bunch&#8230;like jamming with amateurs and rookies&#8211;it&#8217;s bad for my BP&#8230;I&#8217;m certainly not trying to paint a picture of myself as a Musical Genius&#8230;and I certainly don&#8217;t wanna hurt the man&#8217;s feelings&#8230;he is after all 70 years old&#8230;IF I make it to 70, I probably won&#8217;t know my own name&#8230;Last night&#8217;s jam had great moments and suckass moments&#8230;I just think that A LOT of what I know as a Musician is stuff that any and every Musician should know when they first venture out of the basement\/bedroom, otherwise&#8211;stay there and keep learning&#8230;very frustrating, especially lately&#8230;I started playing guitar in about 1969&#8230;not sure how and when it happened, but at some point I started soloing&#8211;by 1975 I was calling myself a lead guitarist&#8211;that&#8217;s SIX years&#8230;and THAT was when I first auditioned for a band as a Guitarist&#8230;I don&#8217;t think some of the guys I&#8217;ve been playing with have been playing six years&#8230;as far as my Student is concerned, he just wants to be able to amuse himself, his aspirations go no further&#8230;I hope he&#8217;s happy with his progress&#8230;but we DO need to work on his timing&#8230;<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">I hope I can be back in my neighborhood by Dinnertime; I need to rest up for the TWO weekend gigs I&#8217;ve got&#8230;They&#8217;re both with the Reverbs; one in a nice place, one in a so-so place (a bad neighborhood with horrible parking) Such is Life&#8230;and it&#8217;s&#8230;fair&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>going North to give a friend&#8217;s Dad guitar lessons&#8230;the ONLY stressful element of this undertaking is the student&#8217;s timing&#8230;I&#8217;m not at all sure why, but THAT gets on my nerves a bunch&#8230;like jamming with amateurs and rookies&#8211;it&#8217;s bad for my BP&#8230;I&#8217;m certainly not trying to paint a picture of myself as a Musical Genius&#8230;and I [&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-44518","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\/44518","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=44518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}