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Well hell, I was all ready to make plans to go see y'all play until I saw the location. Sorry Robert, that's just a bit too far for me to go. Break a leg!
 
WavMixer said:
Well hell, I was all ready to make plans to go see y'all play until I saw the location. Sorry Robert, that's just a bit too far for me to go. Break a leg!
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Since B.B. Kings has closed down, not sure what Los Angeles venues we might have coming up. I am slowly trying to (gracefully) detach from this band so that I am free to pursue other opportunities. Bottom line is, I'm an 80's rock guy - always have been - that's where my heart is and I am looking towards getting completely away from all other genre's of music to play the music that I love. So, either I find a band that is into my style of music, or I will start my own. I have enough connections that I could be working 5 nights a week on the casino circuit alone...
 
Im always a couple hours early to events. Time to enjoy a cold beer and the classic 1980's/1990's rock they are playing at present.... :-)
 
The high point of my night was when my wife and daughter walked in...the pub band area is open to all ages and the bar is in another area.

I always know when my wife walks into a gig, even if I don't see her right away, because everybody starts turning around to see her.

It's not that she dresses revealing - last night was just jeans, red heels and a black t-shirt....it's a little being dark and exotic looking, a little how she carries herself and a little being super tiny with an anti-gravitational upper body and a six pack.

We are best friends and I can't help but smile when she walks in...
 
So, it is time, I believe, to leave the band.

I have cut back on all my work in the studio as a muscian for hire to focus on the guitar making project. Its more work than I anticipated, but I really do enjoy it.

I'm still planning and working towards my own 80's/90's rock cover band and I have not stopped working on my own material, but I think the best decision, right now anyways, is to focus on the guitar making....
 
Robert Herndon said:
The high point of my night was when my wife and daughter walked in...the pub band area is open to all ages and the bar is in another area.

I always know when my wife walks into a gig, even if I don't see her right away, because everybody starts turning around to see her.

It's not that she dresses revealing - last night was just jeans, red heels and a black t-shirt....it's a little being dark and exotic looking, a little how she carries herself and a little being super tiny with an anti-gravitational upper body and a six pack.

We are best friends and I can't help but smile when she walks in...
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I love to hear people who have a relationship like this with their wives! I feel the same about mine and we've been together for 35 years...

Robert Herndon said:
So, it is time, I believe, to leave the band.

I have cut back on all my work in the studio as a muscian for hire to focus on the guitar making project. Its more work than I anticipated, but I really do enjoy it.

I'm still planning and working towards my own 80's/90's rock cover band and I have not stopped working on my own material, but I think the best decision, right now anyways, is to focus on the guitar making....
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Sometimes it's best to focus on one thing...especially when it's a business and there's money involved. You can always get another band together.
 
Sp8ctre said:
I love to hear people who have a relationship like this with their wives! I feel the same about mine and we've been together for 35 years...




Sometimes it's best to focus on one thing...especially when it's a business and there's money involved. You can always get another band together.
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My wife and I are best friends. She is also helping to assemble guitars....

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I politely resigned from my position as bassist for The Verbon Kelley Blues Band a few minutes ago.

While I did enjoy some of my moments with the band, and the money as well, I think I have grown weary of being nothing more than a support musician.

Time to begin a new chapter....

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Funny fellow am I...

On three separate occasions, I was approached about joining three country western acts as a guitar player. Each discussion was pursuant to signed non-disclosure agreements, but suffice to say, everyone has heard of them. In each instance, I politely declined the jobs without hesitation. Once, I was asked point blank how I could, so quickly, turn down a 150 date a year touring job with a major label artist. I politely asked the woman if she really wanted the truth, or a feel good answer. She replied, "I want to know the real reason. People dream about a once in a lifetime opportunity like this..."

"Ok...," I said....as I looked out the window of the Capitol Records building in downtown Los Angeles....I leaned forward in my chair and took a sip of water before I answered....

"I live very comfortably. I don't need or want the money....I play for the sheer enjoyment of it...and, having said that, I cannot play music in a genre where I hate every single note I am asked to play, and have to stand up in front of, potentionally thousands of people, and pretend that I am having a good time..."

She leaned back in her chair and said, "You may be the first honest person in this business I have ever met...."

While there are a select few C&W acts I would consider working for, they never asked me.... :-)
 
First Friday night in a long time, sittin' up watching a movie with the kids.... :)

I really like Verbon (the bandleader) and we had some fun times, but explain to me why, on the one hand, i feel like i let him down, and on the other, like I was released from prison today????
 
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