Don't you hate depending on other people? I once got so sick of babysitting my band that I showed up at practice and, weren't they surprised when I started rolling my Marshall JCM800lead series out the door! I had given my drummer and bass player a break for a few days to let them catch up on the music. I think we had gotten to that dreaded 16 song limit that all my bands always ground to a halt at.

I showed up unexpectedly and there they were -and yes I mean you two, Mike Sciarrino and Chris Lamett- there they were playing some god-awful fusion syncopated garbage, and telling me "we're working on a new song dur doy..."

I just freakin' gave up. I grabbed my amp and strat and wheeled it out and never looked back. Traded it all in for an acoustic/electric Applause guitar and a small amp. I spent the next year playing on the corner of Haste and Telegraph avenues in Berkeley, California.

Well now I am relegated to waiting on my engineer all the time and it sucks the big one. Finally got him in the studio last week and layed down the guitar solo to finish my latest recording and dam it didn't come out right. Too contrived. Too many guitar lix instead of statements from the heart. Gonna get back in there and try it again- soon as Frank gets around to helping me set levels and such. Where the he11 are you, Frank!?

Peace!!  joey xoxoxo

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