The big guitar sound

 

Honey, let's talk about musical growth.  Have you added more songs to your set list yet?  From what I see on YouTube, you have had the same list since January.  Then I look at the Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival 2024 lineup:

Dave Matthews Band

NEEDTOBREATHE

Better Than Ezra

COIN

The Band of Heathens

Sierra Hull

Lukas Nelson

Charlie Worsham

Celisse Hozier

The Brevet

Noah Kahan

The Cadillac Three

Chance Peña

Illiterate Light

The Brook & The Bluff

Lamont Landers

People on the Porch

Willi Carlisle

HIPPIES AND COWBOYS

Allison Russell

Stephen Sanchez

Myles Smith

Do you make better music than them?  Or did you just want to play alongside them?  Are you a musician because you want to be social?  It's just a gig?  It's not a competition?  What about the music?

You're only 18, so you should be growing musically.  Sure some acts play the same song(s) over and over again, but those people are old and those songs are all they have to live on.  The people you really should ask about your music is your band.  Ask them this question: "Am I boring you with my music?"  Of course, nobody is going to tell the boss lady that her music has become dull, because it hasn't.  There's just not enough of it.  Playing the same few songs over and over again is like being broke and having to eat the same meal over and over again.  You're not broke!  You're not even musically broke.  You're only 18!

Another thing is that the "Hodge Podge" isn't necessarily going to contribute original music for "Grace Bowers and the Hodge Podge", because the vision belongs to "Grace Bowers".  The burden of creativity is yours, because it's your band.  Write at least 30 complete songs with lyrics immediately!  And they better be great.

Ramen

 

I have to admire how hard you work at your social media.  I simply can't be bothered, so I put in the minimum amount of work.  There's a lot going on offline.  There's always someone plotting something at any given time like right now, so I try to stick to my schedule.

I'm sure you like ramen, especially when it's done right.  I suppose ramen would be OK for you to check out in Japan.  I posted the most touristy one above.  The Japanese like to put pig in the broth, so I can't eat any of that.  I used beef bone, salted fish, home made fermented miso, seaweed and garlic to flavor my ramen broth below.  Along with the seasoning packet.  There's an egg at the bottom, and a dollop of hot sauce on top of the fish cake on top of the noodle brick.  ¥50,000 for a bowl of Zam's celebrity ramen!

Bah humbug

 

"Don't cry, don't raise your eye, it's only teenage wasteland".

Nice hair, Honey.  Very professional.  Nice riff, too.  You're definitely not the type of guitar player that needs to hide behind your gear.

So I converted my music production pc to replace my primary computer that died.  Unfortunately, it can't handle modern graphics.  The last computer couldn't handle graphics either, but I was able to push it to the edge.  I guess it fell off.

Anyway folks, no Twitch stream, no Second Life, no TikTok and no girlie pictures until I get a nicer computer.  Mary Unknown7 will only be available on the Free-Shoutcast stream.  I'm going to revert my music production computer back to how it was.

Diva

 

Uh oh, looks like that storm yesterday fried my PC.  Until I can find a solution folks, Mary will only be on the Free-Shoutcast stream.

You think you have problems with jealous people?  You don't have to sing!

Let's say for example, you wanted to please someone who's jealous of you, and you would do whatever it takes so that person would stop being jealous of you.  First you would give it your money, and all the material possessions you have that you value.  Next you would be its slave, do whatever it wants you to do and be thoroughly humiliated by it.  Finally you would allow it to torture and kill you in the most brutal way.  Perhaps after all that, it would stop being jealous of you.

"Not going to school to tour at age 18". Lol that's the attitude of a Rock Star.  Enjoy travel while you're young, Honey.

Economics

 

You love them, but they don't love you.  So keep your circle of trust small.  You have your family and your band, who more do you need to be intimate with?  When you get scared, just stay in the house.  You can have whatever you need delivered.

I want some BBQ too!  I'll have to cook up my own so it's halal.  That block party is a very political thing you're doing.  I noticed that you updated your "live music and stuff" playlist, so I watched it.  I'm guessing that you like the guitar tone best.  That Tyler amp is nice.  Any tube amp would be nice for me.  The "Lenny/Skuttle Buttin" performance is better produced by Western AF.  Nashville Heatwaves production censored out the drummer.

Oh yeah, economics.  Not a blessing for most musicians, so understand their envy.  Jealousy is Biblical, so don't expect to alleviate it with bribes.

Bass

 

Honey, please don't pay too much attention to all the babble you have to put up with.  You have such a genius ear that you might think that babble is music, and it gets to you.  Figure out a way not to let all that chatter get a reaction from you.

That's a happy solo, Honey.  Sounds like you're adding theatrics to your riffs.  You must have practiced that part.  I like that bass player.  He's punchy, and works better with Dekar.  For your music, you shouldn't have a soft touch bassist.  They don't necessarily have to dig in with all their strength, but be elastic like hard rubber.  An energetic bassist for energetic music.

Someone like Tal Wilkenfeld would have the skill to lock in with Dekar, but popping out isn't her style.  She seems to be more into her own stuff, like most people are nowadays.  Having a permanent lineup is something from the past.  It's a good thing therefore you're in Nashville.

I seek refuge with Allah from Satan the rejected.

111.  Say, "Praise be to Allah, who begets no son and has no partner in dominion, nor any need to be protected from humiliation: yea, magnify God for God's greatness and glory!"

The Night Journey 17:111

Water

 

So you don't have a permanent bass player yet?  I always play your album when I'm doing kitchen work, and it stopped at that song.  Someone put up a video of you and the Hodge Podge at the Desert 5 Spot, playing "Get On Now".  You lost your singer there.  They can't turn up the vocals in such a small space because it would feed back.

The sun came out last morning.  It had been raining all September, a very cold and scary rain with violent winds.  However, the rain came down again in the evening.  It was gentle this time.