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We are all scampering around with our various projects for the summer, stocking up on new tunes and tweaking the studio feng shui. Where should the lava lamp go? Kris's new Tama kit sounds killer, and we have a huge list of new originals to pick from. Watch out for some surprise covers, too....sumpn special for ya. Scanning the decades for wak nuggets that make you go AHHHHH!..until we meet again. -el |
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In a time when jobs are tough to come by, health insurance is only a dream and pollen is rollin in like The Fog from that Adrienne Barbeau movie...it's nice to know that my thoughts on heaven are getting published! Yep, Charlotte's Linda Matney has put together a great book as a fundraiser for Hospice, and I am fortunate enough to be a contributor. Imagining Heaven: An Anthology of Personal Views of Heaven is a labor of love by Mrs Matney, inspired by the comfort she found imagining the afterlife when her own husband was dying of cancer. You may purchase the book Imagining Heaven at http://www.imaginingheaven.com and submit your own visions for the next volume! Here's a bit of my rambling: All the pets I have ever known are waiting for me, able to talk, and full of explanations of everything I never understood they were trying to tell me. After many laughs over the past, and the reconciling of why I want a steak still, we pull up a holographic TV screen and watch my last moments on death-cam video, commenting on people's reactions and my expressions at the last minute. I make a note to find out when my funeral is, and if I can go and haunt it. I hate to miss that many of my friends in the same place for the only time in history. I fall asleep on the couch and, for the first time in decades, do not worry about plumbing, taxes, or my “check engine” light. In my dreams, I visit my loved ones and closest friends and do a good deed for each, but can't resist turning the stereo volume wide open in their cars for a morning surprise. I awake and find myself in my favorite camouflage shorts and “board to death” surfing tee. They fit great, and my obliterated kneecap and crunched foot bones are all pain free and fully functional. I sprint down the stairs and take a path to a huge log-cabin type library, where you can look up the answer to anything you can remember to ask. Was Area 51 a botched scout for the second coming? What was the deal with the UFO I saw in the 90s? Why were the popes more revered than useful? Was there a Loch Ness Monster or not? Where is the Stonehenge construction video? Did Carlos Castaneda do half the stuff he talked about in those books from the 70s? Why was Rush Limbaugh allowed to go on for so long? Was Glenn Beck the lovechild of Limbaugh and Lou Dobbs? After a hectic quizzical search till my eyes are tired, I go to find food and folks.
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I've been playing in so many different bands/venues/styles lately that it got me re-tracing whatever my guitar point seemed to be, once I had the urge to form one. This led me to a worn canvas bag of blood sweat and tears packed with The Ancient Set Lists. There was my guitar history in a nut shell, if the pun fits, wear it... From my folky upstart of Linda Ronstadt/Emmylou Harris/Bob Dylan to my tip-bumping Jimmy Buffett/Grateful Dead/Rickie Lee Jones to my classic rock binge (badly timed 2 years before the real one hit..which we are still glommed up in somehow...I swear ..one more Bohemian Rhapsody and I'm gonna blow....) Then my students were all punkin out so I had to get a loud amp and play CBGBs a few times...then I got a Rotovibe and went all bluesy...then the blues society went into civil war and I went eclectic, for lack of a better word. All the while I'm herding the acousticats thru the Cape Fear Folk Festivals. Then 2 weird things happened...First, I took what seemed to be a guitar teaching job for at-risk youth, and ended up submerged for years in hiphop production and computer music. Gotta thank RogerDodger for that one! Then, I was asked to play some guitar behind a Greenville duo that re-introduced me to the women's music scene, which I had abandoned years before, but obviously still had some unfinished biz with! Looking over the set lists of gig past, I'm struck by the notion of making some I-mixes of these shows. Some of those were works of art! I vow to put extra effort into the upcoming sets and we will have some surprises for ya in Durham for sure!! |
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