Sometimes the Internet can be so seductive that we may forget that stores have a brick and mortar presences as well as a website. One great thing about having both is that people who may not know that a business like guitar center has a brick and mortar guitar center nj store can find out that they have one by visiting their website first.
Reduced learning curve
Did you know that traditional banjos have four or five strings? Today I learned about a musicians friend banjo that has six strings! I think that is a great cross-over instrument for people that have learned to play the guitar and now want to learn to play the banjo. I enjoy watching people play the banjo, but never learned anything about what notes the strings are. Now I’m wondering if the six strings on this special banjo are the same notes as on a six string guitar!
Remember Pearl Harbor
I blame the Second World War for the death of my father, so Pearl Harbor Day is a day that I do not relish – it reminds me of all of the people that died over the stupid greed of evil rulers of foreign countries that attacked our shores. Evil people suck.
It Is Time to Fall Back – Reset your clocks tonight when you go to bed!
Tonight is the night when Daylight Savings ends. At 2am Sunday morning, the clocks are to be turned back one hour. I always wonder how the television guides (the printed version) handle that time change. At 2am the clocks get set back to 1am, so there are two different 1ams! I wonder how many people get confused by that! I know some folks set their clocks back before they go to bed on Saturday night, and that is what I try to do. Some wait until Sunday morning when they get up. Sometimes that is what I do, too, but usually it is because I might have forgotten the night before to do that!
Staying safe this weekend
I have absolutely no plans for this Labor Day weekend. I’d much rather stay home and kick back here. There are too many people on the road and to be honest, I’m afraid of drivers drinking. So I wish every one a Safe and fun Labor Day, a bit early.
Touch of Homesick
My niece is a bit of a drama queen and frequently complains about feeling homesick when the family goes out of town to visit relatives or friends.
I have been away from the DC area (where I grew up) for several years now, and I have to admit that every once in a great while I feel a touch of homesickness. But I know in my heart that I do not live there anymore and there’s no “going home.” In fact, the house where I grew up was sold to another family within months of my high school graduation and the new people remodeled it. So that’s a closed chapter of my life.
Now it’s on to greater adventures, here in Nashville and beyond!
My father loved the band Kiss
I was looking at some old family photos, and saw one photo where my father and his band had dressed up like the Kiss musicians. Kiss has been really popular for a very long time now, and I thought it would be fun to see what kind of YouTube videos I could find about the band. I was surprised to see one of the YouTube videos about the band was an interview done for http://www.musiciansfriend.com/. The video I found was done by the drummer, and I decided to watch it for a little while. I found it interesting that he talked about how he started out as a little kid banging pots and pans in the kitchen, just like my kids used to do. Then he went on to talk about how he used to play the drums for his father’s band, and it really helped to make me feel as if this guy was a “real” person.
I was reading some of the comments below the video, and I was saddened to read that a lot of people were expressing low opinions of him as a person. I don’t know if he is a nice person or not, but I always feel bad when I read negative comments like that.
I love the new silent instruments
Back when I was in school, taking band, there was no such thing as a silent electric instrument of any kind. At least, not that I’m aware of! When a kid decided to learn how to play an instrument, everyone in the house got to listen the that kid practice, whether they wanted to hear it or not! I was really pleasantly surprised recently when I learned that almost any and every instrument ever made now seems to have a silent version – like the silent electric yamaha violin at WWBW that I found online a few minutes ago. I think that it’s fantastic that now people can learn how to play an instrument without driving everyone in the house crazy!