{"id":47093,"date":"2011-06-26T01:47:24","date_gmt":"2011-06-26T05:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/47093\/courage\/"},"modified":"2011-06-26T01:47:24","modified_gmt":"2011-06-26T05:47:24","slug":"courage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/47093\/courage\/","title":{"rendered":"courage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#000000\"><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">this evening I went and saw at least one set by three different bands, including the band in which one of the 6 members has attacked me over the Internet&#8230;She apparently didn&#8217;t have the courage to express herself in a public place&#8230;I&#8217;m SURE it was coincidence, but she was having some kinda technical difficulty with her gear&#8211;I think she bought a separate amp for her harmonica so she&#8217;d have absolute and total control over her sound&#8230;I&#8217;m proud of myself for going to the gig in the first place&#8230;I had said that I wouldn&#8217;t go unless ya paid me&#8230;well I WAS paid&#8211;in kindness&#8230;then I went to see band #3 and although I didn&#8217;t know them ended up onstage singing harmony on a couple of tunes&#8230;I was actually invited up by their guest vocalist; I don&#8217;t think she&#8217;s gonna get in trouble&#8230;a little surprised that I had the courage to take the stage with strangers, but it sure was fun&#8230;and sounded great too&#8230;<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">ADDENDUM&#8211;Maybe it was the &#8220;new blood&#8221; onstage, but I think the Bass player (if not other members of the group) was most definitely impressed with my harmonies&#8230;UP ON CRIPPLE CREEK was fabulous&#8230;ROCKIN&#8217; IN THE FREE WORLD too&#8230;and while they may not NEED one, I wonder if the band would consider having TWO guitar players&#8211;they used to have two&#8230;with some bands, when you have keyboards, ya don&#8217;t need more than one guitar&#8211;But *I* think that to some degree that is a financial consideration, especially for &#8220;local&#8221; bands, in these economically troubled times we live in; I had lotsa trouble falling asleep thinking about being in Band #3&#8230;and I woke up early, thinking about being in Band #3&#8230;They&#8217;re playing nearby again next Friday; I plan on being in the audience (at least)&#8230;by which I mean I&#8217;ll have my gear in the trunk just in case&#8230;I don&#8217;t think of myself as being intuitive, but I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised to find out that maybe wheels were turning in their heads too&#8230;and I DO know how conceited that sounds&#8230;but I stand by it&#8230;EVERY coin has two sides, it&#8217;s hard to be confident without possibly seeming conceited&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>this evening I went and saw at least one set by three different bands, including the band in which one of the 6 members has attacked me over the Internet&#8230;She apparently didn&#8217;t have the courage to express herself in a public place&#8230;I&#8217;m SURE it was coincidence, but she was having some kinda technical difficulty with [&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-47093","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\/47093","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=47093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}