{"id":92599,"date":"2012-07-14T00:21:24","date_gmt":"2012-07-14T04:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/92599\/gambled-lost\/"},"modified":"2012-07-14T00:21:24","modified_gmt":"2012-07-14T04:21:24","slug":"gambled-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/92599\/gambled-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"gambled and lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#000000\"><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">going to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">any<\/span> open mic is a gamble and I know that&#8230;but I go usually because my friend Lou wants to&#8230;so we went to the AmerLegion&#8230;it&#8217;s becoming a clich\u00e9 but&#8211;we sang well, we just didn&#8217;t play well&#8230;we sounded pretty good though&#8230;actually that&#8217;s kinda the opposite of Thursday night&#8230;We asked the house rhythm section to accompany us&#8230;*I* would have been fine without it, but Lou wanted &#8217;em&#8230;<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">I pissed off the Host by using his guitar; I paged him to get his permission, but I didn&#8217;t hear from him until I had the damn thing around my neck&#8230;HE pissed off a certain drummer, but I don&#8217;t care about that&#8230;this drummer, like a LOT of Musicians who go to these things, is not nearly as good as he seems to think he is&#8230;A young woman friend (some friend) insulted me and the guy who normally runs things made a joke at my expense&#8230;Dunno <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">what<\/span> I did to deserve that shit&#8230;I would rather not go back there, but I imagine eventually Lou will want to&#8230;someone posted (on the other FB) &#8220;great night at AmerLegion post 86&#8230;&#8221; and *I*, feeling quite differently posted &#8220;is there more than one Post 86?&#8221; I KNOW the posts are numbered and each one is unique&#8230;the guy (yet another drummer) didn&#8217;t pick up on the sarcasm&#8230;and HE too is one of those rather er,uh, exceptionally average Musicians I&#8217;ve been talking about&#8230;it&#8217;s NOT about being a Musical genius or a totally non-Musical moron&#8230;it&#8217;s about being HONEST with yerself&#8230;*I* know I&#8217;m not a Genius, but I&#8217;m pretty effin&#8217; good at least some of the time, and, if slowly, I&#8217;m getting better&#8230;I guess that sounds conceited, but I&#8217;m just being honest&#8230;I don&#8217;t hear much improvement with most of the Musicians in my circle&#8230;(sigh) I gotta &#8220;chill&#8221;, keep my BP down&#8211;looking forward to tonight&#8217;s gig&#8230;NOT looking forward to getting up in the morning and going to work, but I&#8217;m gonna do it&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>going to any open mic is a gamble and I know that&#8230;but I go usually because my friend Lou wants to&#8230;so we went to the AmerLegion&#8230;it&#8217;s becoming a clich\u00e9 but&#8211;we sang well, we just didn&#8217;t play well&#8230;we sounded pretty good though&#8230;actually that&#8217;s kinda the opposite of Thursday night&#8230;We asked the house rhythm section to accompany [&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-92599","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\/92599","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=92599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}