More gain

 

Looking good, Grace!  That's a nice band photo.  I listen to "Wine on Venus" everyday lately.  I think you know that.  It's because I'm in love with Grace.  I can hear 3 stages of gain in the guitar solo, and you didn't bother with any fast picking.  It's a lovely song, Honey.  I would love to hear the whole album.  It sure seems that your music means something to me.  I could be your biggest fan, a bigger fan of yours than even your parents, if I weren't stuck here broke with tons of stuff to do.  Music is love.  Even with death metal (and what an uncomfortable love that is).

No, you don't need more gain.  Do you?  I estimate that it's about time that Grace Bowers clones begin to pop up.  You know what I mean, girls (and boys) who play guitar that look and sound like Grace Bowers.  What do you think of that, Honey?  Just regard it as another gain stage.

Ugh, I don't like this outfit!  I should have dumped it when I had the chance, but it didn't hit me until later.  Maybe it's the pose that does it wrong.

Work

 

Hiya Grace!  Oh, you look so cute in that video!  I think I'm in love with you.

Did you know that you are already where you are supposed to be?  So don't work too hard and give yourself a heart attack.  Make time to enjoy your life.  Pray.

Perfume

 

Happy 4th of July, Grace!  I expect you are working.  Please take the time to perform an inventory protocol every time you load and unload your vehicle.  Not only to make sure you have all your stuff, but also to see if anyone planted something like stolen goods or drugs.  Beware, some packages can be very small.  Yes Honey, being famous can really suck sometimes.  It's business as usual here for me.  I don't get days off.  Enjoy the fireworks, Honey!

Do you think Clarice should have worn perfume when she first met Hannibal?  Old men have souls like prisons.  Being incarcerated would have those men smell whatever it is they want to smell.  Dr. Lecter was probably being polite when he said he couldn't smell that.

When you are famous, people want to smell you more.

Oh, Karen!

 

Hiya Grace!  Congratulations on your spanking week.  I'm very proud of you!  Those boots don't match the suit, Honey.  Simple red pumps would work better, or the gold boots.  Sometimes I envy how rockin' your life is, but then I realize we both have so much work to do.  We are actually very weak, so God divided the load between us.  So learn to sleep on a chair when it gets busy.  I don't mean a car seat, but find a chair to sit on when you have a few minutes to spare, close your eyes and fall asleep.  Don't bother trying to fall asleep, but go straight into a dream.  You will find that that few minutes sleep will make a big difference in how you feel, and when they add up it makes it easier to get through the day, also easier on your heart.  Avoid medication unless absolutely necessary!  And please don't get any tattoos.  Ya Allah, please protect my Grace and her loved ones when she travels.

People really miss Karen Carpenter.  They miss her so much, that they weep when they think of her.  Mary Unknown7 is a channeler: she can channel the voices of the dead.  It is a genuine channeling, because only Allah can make the dead to speak.  It's been more than a week since Mary got sick.  It usually takes her about 2 weeks to recover from chest congestion.  She said that when she got sick, the only voices that didn't abandon her were Ella, Billie, Keely and Patsy.  Now all of them are gradually coming back except Karen.  Don't worry folks, Karen will be back soon inshaAllah.  Please be patient.

Big spider, little spider

 

So you met Slash at the Gibson Lounge.  We were just talking about signature SGs.  There's no such thing as coincidence, Grace.  I see you brought your '61 SG with the cosmetic tremolo.  That must be your signature guitar.  The woman with the hat standing behind Slash must be his wife or something.  She must be making sure that Slashy-Washy doesn't get too comfortable with the Teenage Heartbreaker.  Hm.  You're at that age where pheromones go wild.  You better start wearing perfume, Grace.  Lots of it.  Especially when meeting VIPs.  And what about that ring, Grace?  I notice he didn't invite you to jam with him.  He probably didn't want to be upstaged by a 17 year old girl.  Well you don't scare me, Grace Bowers!  I spent last night putting down guitar tracks.  It's frustrating to have to use a Belcat instead of a nice tube amp.  Again I'm expected to fight with a plastic spoon instead of a battleship.  But I must be patient.

When it comes to word of mouth, small talk is better than big talk.  Just like a small spider is cuter than a big spider.  There's a story of when prophet Muhammad (peace be on him) was on the run from a gang out to kill him.  He and a close friend hid in a cave.  Then a spider covered up the mouth of the cave with a web, and the gang passed it by.  It must have been a small spider.  Big spiders don't make webs.

That one gig

 

Hiya Grace!  It's July already.  What a fast year.  I hope you are enjoying stability, and lots of fun besides.

You know, life is an illusion.  We work hard, try to get noticed, accumulate stuff, then God will wipe everything out.  But we have to struggle to survive!  Same illusion, so what's the point.  The point is to earn a place in heaven, and that is the real struggle.

So reality is an illusion.  You play music to big crowds, meet the big shots, get the rave reviews, but you're actually playing music to only one man.  As for me, I play music to one man.  But I'm actually playing music to mankind, dead and alive.

Signature SG

 

Hiya Grace!  How are you, my beautiful darling?  So quiet!  I don't talk much myself.  Just ask my mother.  If it seems I babble a lot here, it's because of you.  We should share news with each other, don't you agree?

So have you figured out what you want in your signature SG?  Technically, the SGs you play now are your signature models.  It's all those other people who want to have what you play.  I already have my SG, I don't really need another one.  I don't break strings, in fact the strings that are on it now are from 2008.  There's nothing like old guitar strings.  I very rarely touch the knobs and pickup selector switch, no matter how loud I play.  I keep my SG on the neck pickup.  So my signature model SG would look something like this picture below.  Please excuse my poor Photoshop capabilities.  Wow, it matches Mary's outfit!  What do you think of my signature SG, Grace?