{"id":61017,"date":"2011-09-03T12:16:59","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T16:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/61017\/times-changed-guess\/"},"modified":"2011-09-03T12:16:59","modified_gmt":"2011-09-03T16:16:59","slug":"times-changed-guess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/61017\/times-changed-guess\/","title":{"rendered":"times have changed I guess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#000000\"><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">last night&#8217;s gig went fairly well&#8230;my car made it there&#8230;I had some fun, Jessica made it to the place (halfway thru the last set, but still) I got paid&#8230;and the car made it home (whew)&#8230;I don&#8217;t know fer sure (&#8216;cos I only had two&#8211;VERY unusual) but again I think Band members were charged for soft drinks; WTF? As far as *I* can tell, Bands aren&#8217;t making any money in the DC area anyway and now we have to pay for soft drinks? Food and\/or alcohol I kinda understand (although 50% off of those prolly wouldn&#8217;t kill the profit) but sodas? Times ARE hard I guess&#8230;<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">and I do wish the band manager could\/would find a drummer more familiar with the Music we do and not the hard rock\/heavy metal drummers we seem to use the most&#8230;Most of the time the drummer will tell me he&#8217;s never heard of (or played) the song we just finished playing (sigh)&#8230;is it my fault that I can sing or play HAVE I THE RIGHT by the Honeycombs (1964?) and RED by King Crimson? No, it just means I like a LOT of different songs&#8230;I LIKE being able to play YOUR CHEATIN&#8217; HEART and JAMES AND THE COLD GUN&#8230;I guess it&#8217;s wrong of me to expect other Musicians to have tastes as diverse as mine seem to be&#8230;but really now, a drummer who can&#8217;t &#8220;correctly&#8221; play GET BACK? I mean c&#8217;mon man&#8230;no &#8220;horserace&#8221; beat? If it was MY Band&#8230;oh well, never mind&#8230;<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">looking forward to tonight&#8217;s sit-in with a Blues\/Rock group&#8211;they know I can sing Harmony, but I don&#8217;t think they know that I can play guitar too&#8230;Unless their female guest vocalist told them I can&#8211;which is prolly how I got the invite in the first place (duh)&#8230;other than Automotively, Life is Good&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>last night&#8217;s gig went fairly well&#8230;my car made it there&#8230;I had some fun, Jessica made it to the place (halfway thru the last set, but still) I got paid&#8230;and the car made it home (whew)&#8230;I don&#8217;t know fer sure (&#8216;cos I only had two&#8211;VERY unusual) but again I think Band members were charged for soft [&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-61017","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\/61017","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=61017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}