I feel good! I just got off the phone with Keith and talking to him reminded me of how important friends are. This week has been a blur. I had my first rehearsal with thursday's child and it went rather well. I still have about 5 more songs to learn in a short amount of time. The gig is only about two weeks away. I suppose we'll just have to see what happens. The Eat rehearsals are going better than expected. Kenny is out of town this week so i'll have a week off there. Friday, we did a leukemia walk in WPB for our friend Bongo and that was cool. We raised a shitpile of money and Johanna had a great time.
Last night, I played the Ashtray (Poorhouse) in downtown Ft. Rockerdale with Joel DaSilva and that was interesting as usual. Unbeknownst to me, there was big rock concert going on at the end of the street so parking was fooked. I found a place a few blocks away for 20 bucks. There goes my food/soda money. Playing was OK. I wore my earplugs so I can hear pretty well today. Tonight, I played with Charlie Pickett at Nova University for a film festival and that went OK. Of course, we were way loud but that didn't seem to bother anyone. Rick rode up with me and we listened to some WFMU programs on the way. Karen archived some of my Teenage Fanclub/Tom Waits videos on to DVD so I have those...Thanks! On the way home, I played Rick "Winter" and he really liked it so I lent him Grand Prix and Songs From Northern Britain...We could have another TFC convert on our hands. He mentioned possibly covering one of their songs in the Dillengers.
I'm so overwhelmed with the projects i've taken on but part of the reason I feel so good is 'cause i'm able to do these things. Instead of bottling in my emotions, I get to let them out on the guitar or some drums. Even a bad gig is better than say....cleaning a toilet! I'm a real lucky guy! Thank you, music gods!
P.S. I just got in the mail RhinoHandmade's Aretha Live in Philly 1972 and it is the shizzle.
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