welcome to St. Petersburg, FL. Palm trees are swaying outside my window. We had a really long travel day today from Tampa…
15 miles.
but with our detours to various guitar stores and of course, WALMART, it took about 3 hours.
While John Michael showed INCREDIBLE restraint, Tom Booth did some damage. A 1960 Gibson Melody Maker. He was tearin’ it up at the Guitar Center there. Got a great deal on it too.
I practically stole a lovely epiphone acoustic guitar from Legend’s Guitar shop. $145 WITH a case. It’s got a few marks on it, but I prefer buying instruments “pre-dinged”. This way I don’t have to worry about it when I bash it up.
John Michael says when you buy a new instrument, new songs come out of the instrument. Well, that’s true. I wrote one this afternoon. 🙂
We had a great concert last night in Lutz (pronounced LOOTZ), just north of Tampa. about 750 people came out, and it was a nice evening, all things considered.
When we showed up, only 3 people were there to help unload the truck (we require at least 8 people).
Then, once we got into the church, and started to set up, we had no power. The electrician (another requirement) was a no show, so we had no way to patch our electrical panel into the breaker box.
So by the time they found another electrician, it was close to concert time, and we didn’t start sound checking until 6PM. Doors opened at 6:30.
eek.
But JC saved the day. Not THAT JC, our OTHER JC. the sound master, JOHN COTTON. He did the classic soundman “all-odds-against-yet-somehow-pulls-off-a-great-sounding-show”.
Voices sounded good, guitars sounded good. Great night of music and ministry.
Tomorrow night we’re in St. Pete, and we’ll have a choir with us. Should be alot of fun.
well, that’s it. I shall live to write another day, Epiphone in HAND, so to speak…
Joe
February 11, 2006
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