Today I’m headed to Providence to witness my sister Theresa’s thesis defense. Yes. She is one requirement away from achieving her PHD is social psychology. Way to go Tree!!!!
I’ll let you know how it goes.
Category: RockStar
An Amp.
Yesterday, I learned about the Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier Amp. I spent some time talking to friends, reading reviews, and researching and… DANG. This one sounds ideal.
It also sounds pricey. $1300ish for the head. Then more for speakers. Yikes!!!
Perhaps I can use some of Uncle Sam’s rebate in June to help fund such an adventure. Guitar equipment is awesome. Totally totally awesome.
Yes, I can resist paying a dollar for a soda at the soda machine, but I have the hardest time resisting absurdly expensive awesome guitar gear.
Victory!
It is with extreme excitement that I can officially report that my sister Alicia won the competition yesterday and will be starting her first big-time official symphonic gig with the Oregon Symphony. This is such huge overwhelmingly fantastic news. Alicia’s been working hard and taking auditions furiously since she graduated from college. She’ll be playing 2nd chair and will be starting up in August.
She’ll play for a year and if everyone’s happy she could pull a tenure spot.
Join me in Congratulating Alicia!
Yay!!!!
Four days of Thrills.
So the last four days have been pretty wild. I’ll start with Thursday and include updates of the rest of this past weekend as this week progresses.
Thursday night I played at an open mic in Berlin. The place is called the Pine Loft. It’s actually a pizza parlor and not the type of place you’d expect to have an open mic setup. Tall pine columns and bright heavy floors give the feeling of a boy-scout camp more than a musical oasis, but the organizers do a good job with it. The guy running the sound seems to know what he’s doing and the musicians who play are quite skilled.
I went with Keller, Ernie, Cordelia, Cathryn, and John. I played two tunes: Sunshower by Chris Cornell and Posters by Jack Johnson. I would rate my performance as ‘passable’.
Waaay more cool was the fact that I got a whole bunch of compliments on my beautiful guitar. It was refreshing and made me quite proud. Boy that thing is nice. I’ve been trying to get practice time in every day. Soon… yes… soon I will be able to play guitar well enough to live up to this guitar’s majesty.
As for a name? I’m still not decided. At the moment I’m leaning towards ‘Olivia‘. Specific heat, which got the most words of praise in the previous post, is too long for me. It doesn’t have any mystique to it either. The greek names intrigue me as well. I remain undecided.
