WHAT’S THE DEAL?

All three of you are most likely wondering “What’s the deal? You haven’t blogged since October 4th!”

I can dream, right?

Truth is, I have been super busy with a lot. That’s not an excuse at all. Lessons are packed to the gills and that’s a good problem to have. Feels nice to keep busy with teaching, inspiring young minds and a few adults as well. One of my students asked me “How do you remember so many songs?” and I said “I just do, wish I had a proper answer.”

Which leads to the next topic: cover band gigs coming up soon. Between the two shows approaching, I will be doing about 90 songs total. WHEW! So if you want to ask me “How do you remember so many songs?”, again I say “I just do.” Do I blank out at times? Of course! I learned little tricks from the pros on what to do when you have a brain fart. I won’t say them here because a magician never reveals his tricks 😉

The first gig will be with Supernova at Lentini Farms (Newton, NJ) on Friday October 24. Last year we were told “You can stop early because there’s nobody here” but that was because it got darker earlier and colder too! I doubt people will mill around a corn maze in the dark. We even had space heaters on the stage; I better learn how to play guitar with fingerless gloves like TM Stevens did. I might look cool too.

Might.

The second gig will be at Mason Jar (Mahwah, NJ) with Rubber Duckie Riot. And this gig will be 11 minutes from my house THANK GOD! A CLOSE SHOW!! Been eons since I played in my backyard. This will be on Halloween and yes I’m in costume, as a has-been guitar god. I dress like that every day anyway.

And I was asked recently by DJ Metal Mistress to be on her Metal Meltdown show for Wednesday October 29. She said it will be my pre-birthday bash (it’s on November 2) and that I will be in charge of the songs. You know what I’ll pick! But will also throw some curveballs. It’s how I roll. True to form, we will talk about anything and everything on her show because when the two of us get together, it’s pure comedy with some seriousness thrown in.

“Anything else, Steve?”

In my world, you never know.

And I never know either…