{"id":81361,"date":"2012-02-05T01:24:28","date_gmt":"2012-02-05T06:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/81361\/feeding-needy-ego\/"},"modified":"2012-02-05T01:24:28","modified_gmt":"2012-02-05T06:24:28","slug":"feeding-needy-ego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/81361\/feeding-needy-ego\/","title":{"rendered":"feeding the needy Ego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#000000\"><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">So I went to see a band I&#8217;ve never seen before; I&#8217;ve wanted to for ages but didn&#8217;t get around to it &#8217;til tonight&#8230;Sang a few with them&#8230;The Bandleader didn&#8217;t know me but we have a bunch of mutual friends&#8230;He was relieved (if not impressed) that I could sing&#8230;Two or three other guys got up as well&#8230;I&#8217;m hoping I&#8217;ll end up in a band with one of &#8217;em&#8230;Having guest vocalists is something they do fairly regularly, but MY being one of &#8217;em was mostly my idea&#8230;I was quite nervous yet relaxed at the same time&#8230;I guess I DIDN&#8217;T learn any lessons from Friday night&#8230;and I&#8217;m OK with that&#8230;Ears ringing WAY lots&#8230;still, I have no regrets&#8211;yet&#8230;<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">ADDENDUM&#8211;unusually for me, I sang something other than the Melody as written Saturday night&#8230;Harry (the lead singer) is a bit of an interpreter himself&#8230;kinda like Ray Charles (the ultimate interpreter perhaps)&#8230;it&#8217;s OK to sing the Melody each and every time ya sing a song&#8211;how else can a person harmonize with ya? But it&#8217;s OK to be an interpreter, like Ray Charles or Joe Cocker&#8230;but the latest FB firestorm that I started was over yet another bad rendition of the National Anthem&#8230;thank you Kelly Clarkson&#8230;one of my FB friends put HER rendition on youTube, SHE embellished, at the end (&#8220;gotta show off my vocal range&#8221;) There are a few (not many, but a few) patriotic songs one can sing if ya wanna disregard the written Melody&#8230;and of course, BILLIONS of songs in general one can sing if ya wanna show off yer &#8220;chops&#8221;&#8230;but is it too much to ask that a singer sing the NATIONAL ANTHEM without &#8220;embellishments&#8221; ? Apparently it IS too much to ask&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I went to see a band I&#8217;ve never seen before; I&#8217;ve wanted to for ages but didn&#8217;t get around to it &#8217;til tonight&#8230;Sang a few with them&#8230;The Bandleader didn&#8217;t know me but we have a bunch of mutual friends&#8230;He was relieved (if not impressed) that I could sing&#8230;Two or three other guys got up [&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-81361","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\/81361","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=81361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}