{"id":78927,"date":"2012-01-15T22:35:18","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T03:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/78927\/foot-door\/"},"modified":"2012-01-15T22:35:18","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T03:35:18","slug":"foot-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/78927\/foot-door\/","title":{"rendered":"foot in the door?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#000000\"><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">SLR and I did her one song tonight at that awards show in VA&#8230;the applause sounded strong and enthusiastic, but she didn&#8217;t win the big one&#8230;*I* think it was because such a jazzy number stuck out too much against all that folk-oriented stuff&#8230;our 19 yr old Drummer was good&#8211;she&#8217;d never actually heard him play, she barely knew the kid&#8230;and the Bass player was good, *I* knew him, she did not&#8230;The important thing is that she got her foot in the Virginia door&#8230;some of my friends were there; it was kinda important that, after me talking about her for 4 years and 10 months they could hear for themselves what I&#8217;ve been hearing&#8230;I was interested in what a local well-known singer thought, but she told me &#8220;I wasn&#8217;t really listening, I was talking to [some guy] &#8230;&#8221; Well fuck you&#8230;and some guy I don&#8217;t like (who WON an award) called a friend (or she called him) and he said basically \u00a0 &#8220;I&#8217;m not gonna come down there now and listen to other songwriters&#8230;&#8221; Again, fuck you dude&#8230;He once climbed onstage (uninvited) and stomped all over me, vocally and guitar-wise&#8230;But those sour grapes weren&#8217;t enuff to spoil my night&#8230;<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">there was a gentleman there from BMI (the song publishers) but I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s gonna change SLR&#8217;s future&#8230;I think BMI means Better Make an Impression&#8230;dunno if she did or not&#8230;but judging from the posts on Facebook, she did&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SLR and I did her one song tonight at that awards show in VA&#8230;the applause sounded strong and enthusiastic, but she didn&#8217;t win the big one&#8230;*I* think it was because such a jazzy number stuck out too much against all that folk-oriented stuff&#8230;our 19 yr old Drummer was good&#8211;she&#8217;d never actually heard him play, she [&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-78927","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\/78927","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=78927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}