{"id":7054,"date":"2010-12-19T21:18:34","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T02:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/7054\/cause-am-right\/"},"modified":"2010-12-19T21:18:34","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T02:18:34","slug":"cause-am-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/7054\/cause-am-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Just &#8217;cause I think I am doesn&#8217;t mean I am, right?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small;font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">had a gig this evening in Frederick, with my singer\/songwriter friend Michelle; I was nervous and played just fairly IMO&#8230;I did get some compliments, but I dunno why&#8230;it may be hard to believe that after doing this for about 40 years (!) I still get nervous sometimes but it&#8217;s true&#8230;I think my problem is that (as a guitarist at least) I&#8217;m not consistant&#8230;there have been times (rare, but still)\u00a0when wherever the fingers landed on the fretboard\u00a0was\u00a0the\u00a0&#8220;right&#8221; spot; there have been times (not TOO often, but it has happened) where the fingers couldn&#8217;t find ANY &#8220;right&#8221; spots&#8230;mostly on any given night, in any given\u00a0guitar solo\u00a0on any given song, there will be BOTH&#8230;*I* think I&#8217;m a good guitarist, whatever &#8220;good&#8221; means, but I dunno fer sure&#8230;and should a compliment from a &#8220;civilian&#8221;&#8211;what I call a non-Musician, carry less weight than that of a Musician?\u00a0If someone likes what you do, whatever YOU yourself think, isn&#8217;t that enuff? Every time I pick up a guitar in public, this is what I struggle with&#8230;having said all that, the gig in Frederick was FUN, and that always counts for something&#8230;I suspect every Artist wrestles with this dilemma&#8230;knowing that helps a little, but only so much&#8230;It was a VERY good weekend, grateful for that&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">ADDENDUM&#8211;I also keep in mind that aural beauty is in the EAR of the beholder&#8230;and 2) envy is also something I wrestle with&#8211;a Musician I certainly am&#8230;a Songwriter? not so much&#8230;but NOW, for the time being, I don&#8217;t mind being ME&#8230;I DID get six hours sleep last night, I just wish it coulda been a LATER six hours&#8230;for now, Life is Good&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>had a gig this evening in Frederick, with my singer\/songwriter friend Michelle; I was nervous and played just fairly IMO&#8230;I did get some compliments, but I dunno why&#8230;it may be hard to believe that after doing this for about 40 years (!) I still get nervous sometimes but it&#8217;s true&#8230;I think my problem is that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7054","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=7054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}