The drums

 

That was a smart gig in Montreal.  Very well managed indeed!  I guess you are jazz blues, huh.  Mary Unknown7 is global pop.  Shadowplay is metal.

Did I ever tell you I used to be a drum teacher at Yamaha?  No more though.  I don't qualify anyway, and I hate teaching brats that don't wanna learn.  Plus my feet have become huge and useless for drums.  Although it is an artistic statement that may be impossible to copy...

Would I get a ridiculous drum set?  Maybe.  Ridiculous is a point of view.  My current drum set is ridiculous, because I don't really have one.  My favorite part of the video above is when he yanks on the rope to a bell with his teeth!

Homesick

 

So you finally figured out that life on the road is lonely.  You finally figured out that you can get lonely in a crowd.

I first got homesick when I was about 17.  I don't get homesick anymore, because I don't leave home other than to go to the mosque or run errands.  I don't like to leave my cat family.  They're naughty and stinky, but I love them so much.  This is the only photo where I have them all together.  Mama cat had a nervous habit of over grooming as you can see in the picture, but she stopped doing that after she had all her kittens.  Today my boy Otto isn't well.  He's showing symptoms of kidney disease, and I need to take him to the vet.  Please pray for my kitty.

Long Live Rick

 

It's been a while since I saw Rick Beato video though.  This one was brought to my attention by the YouTube algorithm, however.  Maybe it's because I'm not a subscriber.

The chain

 

Get some exercise, Tal.

Fingernails

 

I swear I can hear autowah on the second one.  So how do you like Seiji Igusa?  He's one of those bedroom musicians, I guess.  I've only seen news of his playing out live once, and he didn't look too happy.  Maybe he will change that in the future.  Oh wait... That was Ichika Nito.

I would call you a social musician, Grace.  I don't think it's about playing live on stage: I did that myself for many years.  Other people don't really inspire me anymore.  Not to the point of where I want to do guest appearances for them, at least.  Too many crappy memories, perhaps.

A world of our own

 

In America?  What's up with Kanye?  Whatever it is, he's becoming more and more irrelevant.  Maybe he thinks he's president or something.

Oh really

 

Come on, not everyone in America is poor.  The middle class seem to get by honorably.  Then there are the few individuals who have excessive amounts of wealth, and they want more money.  

Sure, America is in debt and needs money.  Because of interest!  Shalom!  Nihao!  Nuclear war is unprofitable not because it destroys resources, but because it kills off buyers.  They need to stage a ground war so they can sell weapons.  And the gangsters are the best choice for selling weapons to both sides.

Countdown

 

Scared again, Honey?  Then pray and put your fear in Allah, then hide behind me.  This is the world stage, and life is that stage.  Make sure you hang on tight to that stream.  Change is imminent, for better or worse.  Please help feed the poor.

I wonder if they still have this show in the Netherlands?

Order

 

A particularly effective way of extracting useful information from media lies is by studying the polarization of one news to another.  This also works with news withheld in relation to news given.

Technology is dependent on the earth

 

I seek refuge with Allah from Satan the rejected.

110.  Say, "I am but a man like yourselves, the inspiration has come to me that your God is One God: whoever expects to meet his Lord, let him work righteousness and in the worship of his Lord, admit no one as partner".

The Cave 18:110

Young coconut

 

Did you try young coconut juice while you were in the Bahamas?  It's the purest drink in the world.  A coconut tree I planted 7 years ago finally gave fruit, so I'm enjoying young coconut juice now.  Unlike everyone else, I have to use a hacksaw to open it.

Guitar solo!

 

I like the randomness of inspiration in this performance.  Sometimes we get so stuck in our ways that it becomes impossible to come up with something new.  Have you ever played the same riff over and over again?  Always explore the unknown regions of your guitar.  Trust me, it's infinite.

Hubris

 

Probably the best meaning for hubris is its result.  Hubris = Easy to taunt, easy to trick

Go to the Knower show

 

While you folks are hanging on waiting for things to go down, go to the Knower show.  The government knows.

Hide

 

Hi Grace!  I hope you are having fun with your friends over there away from the rain.  I'm just hanging out here playing my game, away from the chatter.  Check out my hero!  Isn't she handsome?  There isn't much wardrobe choice in Eternium.  I wish they had a mini dress and high heels option, but then I wouldn't be able to afford the cosmetic points.

Always something else

 

This is KARDI from South Korea.  It's hard for me to find a Kpop group that I like, but this band scored 3 out of 3 in a row with me when I watched them on YouTube last night.  I think Kpop is finally evolving into something more palatable to Americanized consumers like me.  This band has to be a shaped and trained formula: look at how photogenic they are.  I shudder to think of the contract they are under.  Slaves.  But they are good.

Vehicle

 

There were a couple of your full shows uploaded recently on YouTube.  The show at the Chickie Wah Wah has better sound, but I think your bass player's vocal mic was turned off.  Your band had some powerful energy at times.  Presentation was kind of disjointed, though: you should work on moving one song into the next.  Get a better flow, and don't let the energy fizzle out.  Perhaps in the future you could employ your own sound guy.

I dunno if a singer like Aubrey would join you.  I think people go to your shows to look at Grace Bowers, so it fits that any singer you have does mostly a lot of dancing.  I want you to make great music.  Yes the music is good, and you are beautiful.  But be great.  If Aubrey did join you, it would help push your band over the top.

Ladies and gentlemen, presenting my girl Grace Bowers live at the Chickie Wah Wah!

Putting together the best band

 

Wow, it looks like Knower has MonoNeon in the band.  Good fortune on your European tour, guys.  I wonder how they financed it...

If you needed a singer

 

I totally recommend Aubrey Logan.  Plus she's a kick ass trombone player for those long instrumental breaks you love so much!

International waters

 

Here's a Yahoo news report on the raid: https://www.yahoo.com/news/gaza-bound-aid-boat-carrying-012053870.html?guccounter=1

The flirt

 

You will never be "one of the guys" because you don't smell like them.  Boys don't play the same as girls, and you don't want them to either.  If love is what you find or seek at such gatherings, then you don't want me.  But I love you so much, you are very precious to me.  If you insist on being social in that way, then make it a very large group with many females present.

The luxury cruise

 

I admire the way you run your ship, being magnanimous and social as you are.  I tried to do it your style, but it didn't work for me.  I'm more into the "mysterious unknown forces" approach to music business.  I don't know how you are able to embrace all that shit talk from people.  It must make you paranoid.  But that's your luxury cruise, not mine.  You're going to become a crazy old lady!

Paranoia isn't paranoia when you live in the public eye and it's your day to day business routine.  But my religion demands that I not be skeptical of people.  I try, inshaAllah.

What's this for?

 

It's for lonely men!

Oh, I saw that rant on YouTube of your pasting a bunch of clips of men criticizing you.  I don't know what you're trying to accomplish, but it sure looks like they know that they can push your buttons.  What are you trying to do?

Do you dance?

 

I've seen you try to dance.  I can't really dance either.  I could thrash around to how I felt, but my feet have gotten so big plus I don't do anymore thrashing around.  When we get together inshaAllah, we will dance together.  We'll make up some sort of dance.

It's OK to be scared, but you must put your fear in Allah.  The advantage of being the female is that your husband has to do the soldier stuff.  You must love your man, and show the world you love him.  I guess we had to dance to the recent craziness of the world, and it's not even a full moon yet.  If I had had money, I would have bought musical and computer equipment and I would have spent the time producing Shadowplay's next album.  Instead of being a psychic busybody.  Oh well, such is life.  Just a lonely and destitute old man taking another step towards death.

Remco

 

Jam with Remco while you're in the Netherlands, Grace.  I left him a message to pay attention to you.  Remco has a unique thumb style which makes him probably the best funk bassist on the planet.

Freedom flotilla

 

I will have to show support for Greta on this one.  Greta, Israel is controlled by ruthless gangsters that came from the USA and the  goal of this conflict is firearms sales.  Their allies are Italian.

The Netherlands

 

I have a feeling you're going to do well in the Netherlands inshaAllah.  I want cheese.  Give me lots of good cheese!

I want one

 

Imagine it amplified through a Marshall stack... The pickup would have to be on the resonator not the strings.  This girl is an expert player, though.  I on the other hand would create a complete disaster...

It takes two

 

I did my taxes last night.  It wasn't hard: I'm not allowed to ask the humans for money, so the income for Shadowplay is 0.  Yours is different, so make sure you are current with the taxman because you are definitely being watched.  Tax years move faster than regular years!  Make sure you personally inspect your accounting, it doesn't matter who you trust it with.

Like I said to my 2 squabbling cats this morning, "She didn't take away your chicken: I did.  And it wasn't your chicken to begin with".

James Bond

 

Lucky bloody you!  So who do you think will be the next James Bond?