Marc-Alan Barnette
#4400
Phil,

Yes, I have heard and know all about the Pensacola festival. It was started by Reneda Cross, who ran the Frank Brown festival for a few years. There was a falling out between her ad Joe Ghilcrist, the owner of the Florabama and the guy who invented the Frank Brown festival. They came to a parting of the ways, and she started her own. I have been friends with both for many years but did not want to get into any controversy.

I decided if I was going to do one, I would not do the other. And since FB has been so good to me, I would not switch. They are just too close together and there are many bad feelings. So I don't go to that one. It is much smaller, and mostly located in P'cola, which is not the most conducive audiences for songwriting. I have played there many times at Rose O'Grady's, and the Naval Air Station, and while I love those people in the military, they are not really that interested in listening to songwriting. I finally had to ask Frank Brown no longer book me in Pensacola, just not my scene.

I'm sure it would be fine, but mostly local and regional people for that one, as most of the Nashville writers are in the same position I was in. I don't know how many go down. They also don't have that many venues so they are not able to pay as much as Frank Brown. The only way I really make FB pay for me, is by staying the entire ten days, playing a lot of shows and doing some private appointments while I am there. 

I am sure it has it's own charm and great people just like all the festivals do. Reneda is a good person and believes in songwriting a great deal. She was once the massage therapist for the Frank Brown festival. Kind of like when people get divorced, you have to be careful not to get in the middle. 

Oddly enough, Joe Gilchrist, while still a minority owner of the Florabama, now has the New Malibu Beach Club, which is IN PENSACOLA! So I end up there no matter what. LOL!

MAB


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Phillip (phil g.) Grigg
#4401

Last year when I went to the New Malibu, it really wasn't a listening room environment. They did try, but didn't really put a lot of effort into it. I think the problem is, they get too many navy guys and gals coming in, and they can't really expect them to be quiet. And, last year the sound system was not only new, but a new architecture, and the poor sound guy was having a rough time trying to get it tuned. That should be better this year, if he is even going to be a venue. I keep checking the FBISF web site, but they don't have a schedule or venues listed yet.


Hey MAB, I trust you had a great time at the Rocky Mountain festival? Maybe next year I'll try to make that one. Billie and I had actually planned a trip up there somewhere a couple years back, but wound up not being able to make the trip. We have been all over the US, but never been up that direction. Maybe I can talk her into trying that next year around the time of the festival.


MAB, I went to the P'cola Songwriter Festival web site, and they have a few Nashville writers, but most are local. I don't know what I would do there. It doesn't seem to be anything like the FBISF. So, thanks for the input, and I will not try that one this year. See you in November.


ALSO, OD and I have mostly firmed up our stay at the Regatta during the FBISF festival. We'll be posting more about that trip soon. Stay tuned!


phil g.

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John Westwood
#4402
You might want to check this out. The link says it all. by Mark Cawley.

http://idocoach.com/blog/2015/7/28/songwriting-the-title-the-concept-and-the-big-idea
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Marc-Alan Barnette
#4403
Hey folks,

GREAT article John. Been trying to say that lately, he did it very well. Everyone should read that one.

Phil,
I have never been a "BANDWAGON" guy. When someone else is doing something, I don't jump on it and say "I'LL do that TOO!!" When Reneda started talking about doing her own festival it really dissapointed me. It was TOO CLOSE to Frank Brown, and she had been very involved in all the events in Nov. She ran the festival for about five years and knew everyone. It was kind of like taking someone else's client list from a business that has treated you very well and just going into competition with them. 

We have a lot of that. In Nashville there is the GLOBAL SONGWRITERS GROUP, which is run by Sherree Spoltrie, Sheree was the membership director of NSAI for many years. She left NSAI and then formed her own organization doing much the same thing as NSAI. It was just too close for me. I like Sheree and she does some good things. No one has the patent on "helping songwriters" and there is a lot out there to help. And people need different things.
But it was still a little too close for me.

I've dealt with it myself, with people I know going to my web site, finding things I was doing, and undercutting me in this town. Even had a guy doing "Songwriter TOURS" the same way I have been doing it for years. Every hit songwriter now seems to go into their own teaching or mentoring business (charging a LOT more money than I do). But again there is NO copyright on doing this. Just depends on what people want and need. God bless all of em.

I just believe when you are doing the SAME THING IN THE SAME PLACE at NEARLY the SAME TIME, that just doesn't feel right to me. I have a deep sense of loyalty and stick with people who have supported me over the years. Was even difficult when I had had a publishing deal for six years and other people approached me. That happened almost all the time, and I stuck with my publishers. Was the right thing to do. It was not until they let me know they could no longer afford me that I even entertained other offers. 

So, I do consider any songwriter's festival a positive. Bringing our message to the general public. That is always good. Just believe it should be spread out. If she would do it in the Spring, or move it a little farther East, it would be great. There is another Festival, the 30 A festival in the SEASIDE area. Not sure when that happens. It is smaller again and only features really big hit writers. The key to getting those people down there is MONEY and location. They will come to a really cool place they can hang out. Same with Key West. But for those NOT in those high level writer's circles find it hard to afford really high hotel prices, and not being able to really hang out with the hit guys and gals.

That is the one special factor with Frank Brown. Everybody hangs out with each other. The biggest writers and the smallest up and comers. Everyone is equal. That is what separates it from every other festival.

The next up is the MISSISSIPPI SONGWRITERS FESTIVAL in Ocean Springs Miss. Sept ,15-18. I am torn on this one. Have been once two years ago and it worked out well. Played several times and got a couple of tour participants out of it. But I CAN'T GET THEM TO CONTACT ME BACK. They have said I am playing, at one point was doing a workshop, but they are very hard to contact. So we will see. I have that weekend open and am ready to go, but won't if I don't have any shows.

Phil, the last thing. Don't worry about the scheduling thing. They always come together at the very last minute. It is because writers say they are coming then don't come, venues drop out at the last minute, people who were up for awards at the CMA's don't win and decide to come down, things like the "SUNSET CORK ROOM" burn down. It is a fluid schedule that won't be formalized till we are actually ALL DOWN THERE.

About five years ago, about two weeks before the festival, I went to the web site to put my dates up on my own web site and do my hand out business cards. As I looked it over, it was very strange, because it seemed that every place I was playing, I had done the previous year on the SAME NIGHT AT THE SAME TIME. About half way through, I realized it was the LAST YEAR'S SCHEDULE! That is part of it. Being confused at Frank Brown is part of the beauty of the Festival. I at least hope it is not like the year they scheduled me both in Pensacola AND Mobile AT THE SAME TIME!
That was an interesting one. I will play between 7-10 "Official" shows, and a couple more private ones. It's usually a pretty full week.

Looking forward to it.

MAB
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Marc-Alan Barnette
#4404
NEW CATEGORY OF SONGWRITER!!!!!

My weekend at the Smokey Mountain Songwriters Festival was great as always. I love the locations, the people, the volunteers, Cindy Reeves, the director, and everything about it. This year was a bit stressed because I had so many people with me, (about ten people) that were all needing to get around. it was VERY HOT, and you have to WALK everywhere, and one of our friends is going through Cancer, so you have to keep all that in mind when you are doing things. Also, on the second day, I slipped coming out of the swimming pool, fell very hard on my back, nearly hitting my head on the concrete, and felt pretty sore the rest of the weekend ,even today.

I had three shows, all playing in rounds, two of them with my "Scared Hitless" group of Scott Southworth, Heino Moeler, and Jeffery Hudson. That round is a  HOOT, kind of "BLUE COLLAR COMEDY"  as much as a music show. One funny thing that I did was from a joke suggestion from Heino. He said before we went on, "What would really be funny is if we did our 'ballads as up tempos and our up tempos as Ballads." He actually was joking but I thought that was a funny as Hell Idea and actually did it. I did the first verse and chorus of "TOO MUCH BLOOD IN MY ALCOHOL LEVEL" as my ballad "OLD MEMORIES." Since everyone kind of knew both of them, it was a really good switch. Got a lot of laughs. Gonna try that one again this week.

But something I saw over and over with other rounds going on, people I saw perform individually, and what I am seeing on a regular basis in every open mic, writers night, and songwriters get together. It has given me a new writers designation:

"TMWTFSS"
"TAKING MYSELF WAY TOO FREAKING SERIOUSLY SYNDROME"!

This is some propensity of the newer and amateur songwriters to think they are philosophers, and write EVERY SONG AS SOME OVERTHOUGHT, overwrought, "Let me tell you my opinion on how poor poor pitiful I am and how terrible everything in the world is to me..." If you have seen the "Here is what I eat, here is my thoughts on life, here is ME ME ME!" on Facebook or social media, that is really hitting songwriting. What they haven;t stopped to figure out is that NOBODY CARES! They write these things that go on five or six minutes, are all over the place with subject matter, guitar chords, and don't EVER MAKE THE POINTS they are trying to make.

I hung out a little bit with a couple of the monster hit writers, one of which said "When did every 20 year old girl think they have become a PHILOSOPHER?" And they are so misinformed on EVERYTHING that it is very laughable. Like some 14 year old girl talking about how terrible her life and heartbreak are. WHAT DO THEY KNOW ABOUT IT?
Most of the time, they don't and it shows.

Interestingly enough in a setting like that, where you have a lot of amateurs and then a good amount of PROFESSIONAL writers, and the difference is MIND NUMBING. You can hear these amateurs going on and on about their pet complaint, get no where NEAR what they are trying to say, and then you hear a pro make the SAME POINTS, but do it in a way that is ENTERTAINING, makes you remember what they are saying, and want to hear it AGAIN. All in a three and a half minute format. Makes you realize. ANYBODY CAN WRITE SONGS. But not ANYBODY can write them well. 

I think that is some of what the article John posted here is about. Songs that are so predictable, so overdone, so boring, and doing it the SAME overdone way. It is predictable and just plain CRAP. 

So I saw a lot of that this weekend. We are in the "FACEBOOK generation" of songwriters. People putting EVERYTHING THEY CAN OUT THERE, without giving a thought to if it should BE OUT THERE!

Hope you all have a good day.

MAB


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John Westwood
#4405
I think videos are partly  or even greatly to blame.

All you need to do is write a song , get it videoed and stick on FB  or U toob and you are  famous.

What they dont realise is that many  , if not all, of those  video music  clips are  done  by  pros and at considerable cost  and its not just the artist and an iPhone but a sound studio plus a full video and editing suite of people. There is a music video of a bunch of guys and a gal in the back of a van having a real good  time  singing their track. Sooooo  easy  ....NOT.

 Darned if I can remember the title. I have it here somewhere in the 1000's of tracks I have in iTunes

 Happy . walk off the earth. couldnt  find the video but here is another  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEKFkwVwfS0

All you need is a bus, a mic and a band and you can become famous 9 and make lots of money  doing what  you  like . yeah yeah yeah
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Marc-Alan Barnette
#4406
John,

There are about five or six things that have brought us to where we are.

The ease of home recording. Computers, plug ins and then cell phones, and home video cameras, made everyone a star.

KARAOKE, which allowed anyone to sing no matter how badly.

Television and reality talent shows.

The Internet, which allowed anyone a platform that they could use. 
Social networking sites like Facebook, Snap chat, Twitter, and whatever develops this afternoon that will be gone by tomorrow, that allows anyone to put themselves anywhere.

It put thirty-fifty million "artists" into the pipeline, a billion songs a month into the pipeline. 

The "Copycat culture" ensues, talent plummets through the basement, and the culutre and the audience's acceptance of mediocrity, are all things that have contributed.

MAB
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Phillip (phil g.) Grigg
#4407

Good morning guys, and gals!! I would like to brag on one of our rampers, Melissa Yamello. She hasn't been on here in quite a while now. MAYBE, because she's been busy "getting it done". AND, even Melissa did not post this great news. One of her cowriters, Maureen Fichten, posted the news on Facebook. The two of them, along with Jon D'Agostino, co-wrote a song, "Sunday Drive", that has been cut by the Chase Tyler Band. WAY TO GO M's and friends!! Congratulations on your cut!! Here is a link if you would like to give it a listen: https://www.reverbnation.com/chasetylerband.


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Phillip (phil g.) Grigg
#4408

Hey all you Rampers up along the east coast, and maybe even as far inland as Nashville or Ohio. Be careful and stay dry! The storm was far enough north of me all we got here was some extra rain and winds only moderately higher than a normal storm that can come our way.


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Dan Lamons
#4409
Hope all that mess is gone before we head down Tues. i hate driving in the rain. We are doing 5 days in the Villages.
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Phillip (phil g.) Grigg
#4410

Dan!! How's it going?!? THIS storm will be gone, but I can't promise the weather will be "fantastic". Thanks for the "warning"!! Maybe I'll try to get down there to see you guys Friday or Saturday. Can't remember what day I went down last time I did that. May have even been a Wednesday? Hope not though, because I'll be headed to Gainesville for an open mic that night. But keep in touch. I would like to try and get down there to catch up with y'all.


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Dan Lamons
#4411
We been stayin over in Spanish Springs the past 2 trips, we were there just last week and going back. They do the trivia thing almost every evening at Margarita Republic, they start at 6pm before the party starts, they also have above average bar food.  We caught some good dance bands last trip. Im sure we will probably see Carol, her and the wife have been conversing on face book.
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Phillip (phil g.) Grigg
#4412

O.K. Dan. Did a google maps and found Spanish Springs Town Square, then I found Margarita Republic right on the Villages Main street, right off of 441/27. So, I'm pretty sure I know where you're talking about. Now, it's just a matter of parking. I'm guessing if I get there around 5:30 or 6:00 there should be plenty? I'll talk to Carol to see what night she will be going down. Hopefully not on that Wednesday. Although, it probably would not ruin me to miss one open mic.


phil g.

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Dan Lamons
#4413
You got my #. We'll be there Tuesday thru Saturday, and maybe a little sooner if the hotel can accomodate us. We are just hangin at the house and thought we might as well hit the road if we can get a room sooner than our reservations.

Your more than welcome to join us any night or afternoon.
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Phillip (phil g.) Grigg
#4414

Hey Dan. I'm shootin for Friday evening. Talked to my sister and looks like parking isn't a problem. Gonna try to be there by 5:30ish so I can loose the Trivia game for you. Or, I could play my own game, and give you guys a better chance of winning! LOL


phil g.

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Dan Lamons
#4415
Friday we are at City Fire at Sumter Landing. We get there at 7pm. The trivia is only thru Thursday at Margerita Republic.
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Marc-Alan Barnette
#4416
Hello Folks,

Glad to see some of you getting together in the real world. Hope you had a good time. Let us know if there was any interesting tid bits.

It is "SONGWRITING FESTIVAL season" going on, and the year is starting to wind down professionally in Nashville. 
Last week was a great time in the Smokey's with the SMOKEY MOUNTAIN SONGWRITERS FESTIVAL in Gatlinburg. All of these have such a special charm. There is nothing like the Mountains and that quaint little village. Great food, fun folks a lot of really great things in the area. I didn't get around as much this year as I usually do, mainly because it was so hot and we had several people with us, trying to get everyone around is always a difficulty. When you have one of your number dealing with some health issues, it makes it harder. And plus, I WAS JUST WORN OUT the whole time. I'm OLDER, what can I say?

After a week to recover, I will head out next week to Ocean Springs Mississippi, for the MISSISSIPPI SONGWRITERS FESTIVAL. This is a very small festival in it's fourth year. I was there two years ago and just getting my footing there. My Father and his family were from Meridian and Philadelphia Miss. so I have some Miss. Roots. And Jimmie Rodgers, the "Singin' Brakeman" was my Grandmother's second cousin. So there is a lot of connections there. I'm very much looking forward to it as many of the same people are at the FRANK BROWN festival, so it will be another part family reunion. Tina is going to be in Austin Texas at this time so I am solo. Hope I can remember how to get around without her. LOL! She is always so organized, it really keeps me together. But I think I'll do okay. 
For those interested, I am sure it is going to be a wiz bang:

http://www.mssongwritersfestival.com/

On the FRANK BROWN front, everything is ramping up for that. It is NOV.3-13, and it is going to be THE TIME  for songwriting outside of Nashville. There is a lot of excitement here in Nashville, because a lot of the writers here, the hit makers, publishers, etc. as well as the GENERAL public are making their reservations. And I would TOTALLY SUGGEST if you are interested in going, NOW is the time to book your places. It will be 75-80 during the day ON THE BEACH and it will be an amazing time. It is off season in the GULF SHORES, PERDIDO KEY area, and it is a great time down there. There will be over 200 Nashville writers and probably another 200 local. regional and people from all over. The greatest hang out there is in the greatest setting. Lots of views, great food, cold drinks and all the beach accoutraments. And trust me, FOOTBALL WILL BE GOING so you don't have to leave that behind either.
There will be a daily OPEN mic at the FLORABAMA, so if you want to play, you can get on in there. 
And you can see, rub elbows with the hitmakers AND see a lot of the songs and artists you are going to be hearing over the next couple of years all right beside you.

There are many places to stay and at very reasonable rates. I always promote one, THE REGATTA, in Gulf Shores.
http://regattaingulfshores.com/ ;

I do that because they have been great to me for nine years and I love the location, the rooms, the beach and everything. 

For everything else you might want to go to:
www.FBSIF.com ;

In the meantime, I'm around Nashville, writing, playing, networking and helping other people do the same. Of anyone has any thing they want to talk about....shoot. I'm listening.

MAB
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Phillip (phil g.) Grigg
#4417

Well MAB, so THIS YEAR you are really going to the Mississippi Songwriter Festival? Last year you advertised it early and talked me into going, but then forgot the dates! All is good though. I had a great time on my own. I was a little disappointed that there didn't seem to be a central venue like the Flora-Bama at the FBISF. And there were no open mic's there. I did talk to a couple of the organizers about that, but it didn't sound like it would happen. There didn't seem to be any venues open during the day that were willing to host that kind of activity, and there wasn't anyone with time or interest in hosting open mic. I guess, in the grander scheme of things, an open mic isn't that important anyway. It is a newer festival, and I'm sure it could grow in popularity, size, and length in the next few years. It was a great festival with a lot of great music and great songwriters. Wish I could have gone again this year, but sometimes when real life happens, one has to adjust his plans. I WILL be at FBISF though!! And OD, WITH OR WITHOUT OD!!


Also MAB, I tried to follow your Regatta link, but it didn't work?

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Marc-Alan Barnette
#4418
Phil,

That wasn't me. I don't go anywhere that I don't have gigs. The last one I did was at this festival two years ago. I ended up playing three times, but that was just an "introduction" to me. I do anything for free one time, and then if they don't invite me back I don't go. Last year I saw several of the committee members who came to Frank Brown. They asked me to come over, so starting in the Spring I tried contacting them by Facebook, email and phone and never had anyone contact me back. I was planning to go up until about a month out and then they never got back to me. 
You should probably know that they asked me to come over BEFORE the festival was even a festival about 9 years ago. I contacted multiple people and they never got back to me. Then, at Frank Brown and when they would come to Nashville, once again, they would ask me to come over but NEVER confirm with me that I was playing. At one point they were even asking if I would teach a workshop. Then nothing.

I only go so far.

This year, about three weeks ago, they answered one of my messages. They said they were including me on the schedule. I was still skeptical until last week. They started using my picture on their advertising. So I guess I am playing, but STILL have not seen a schedule. Just planning on leaving next Thus. the 15th. Will be there till Sunday the 19th, then back to Nashville.

Festivals are difficult to deal with because they are very much "make it up as you go along." There are always several different board members, and they all have their own political agendas. They have venues that commit to doing things, then back out. Corporate donations that fall apart. They try to get "marquee name" artists and writers because that is what draws people in and people are the ones that pay the money to keep the festival going. So it is like juggling hand grenades, blindfolded, while standing on top of a car on the interstate traveling at 90 miles an hour. Always something that can blow up in your face. Right now they are lucky to keep a festival on. Ten years is really what you are looking for with these things. after that, advertisers, venues, and businesses can feel like they are actually going to be around. This is the 7th year for this one, and as usual, the first two were just kind of "throw it together" get together's. Much more informal. Took the Frank Brown one about 10-15 years to really get the rhythm down.

I just had to have SOME kind of acknowledgement to book my own travel plans. Now they are all done. I am staying at the Hampton, driving my car, and everything is all laid out.

On the subject of Frank Brown, I have heard back today from Pam, at the Regatta. She knows of you and OD coming down and you are all set. I am too, as well as Jimbeau, and Larry and Beckett. So we are going to have quite the crew at the Regatta. Don't know what the problem with the link is, but it worked for me. You are probably putting something in on your flip phone from 1977 wrong. 

So everything is good. Hope to see you guys soon.

MAB
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Marc-Alan Barnette
#4419
Phil,

Another thing to remember about ALL festivals, particularly in tourist areas like Ocean Springs (Bilouxi) and the Perdido Key/Gulf Shores, region. They never REALLY start planning for anything like this until AFTER the labor day weekend. That is the end of the tourist seasons. So they have to get through those first and wrap all that up, get all the hotel/condo units, cleaned, repaired, recovered from the tourist seasons, BEFORE they even know what they are going to deal with. A lot of people virtually DESTROY rental houses and condos and they get put out of commission for anything before their next season starts. 

So it  is always going to be difficult to get messages back from those places until AFTER Labor Day.

That was yesterday.

MAB
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Phillip (phil g.) Grigg
#4420

GOOD MORNING MAB!! Thanks for the input about Regatta. OD has made the reservations for us, and he is supposed to send me an email with all the details. Looking forward to the trip this year.


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Marc-Alan Barnette
#4421
Yes Phil,

I got a couple of emails from Pam,  at the Regatta. She is VERY aware of you and the Old Dawg, making a return trip. Should be very interesting. I told OD, but now will tell you, looks like we're going to have another "special guest" coming to the Festival. Her name is "Missy." and she is someone I've known for a long time and worked with a good bit a few years ago. She is an absolute HOOT and is going to be quite the match for OD. Actually imagine "JaLinda" times ten. That is her. Funny, fun and a real great person to be around. She is from Mississippi and actually knew me and my Dad many years ago when she lived in Nashville. She has lived in Canada for the past few years but is going to make the Frank Brown festival this year. She is a writer but not a singer, so you all should get along just fine. 
Going to be quite the gathering at the Gulf this year. Now if we can make sure no other places burn down like Sunset Cork room. I really liked that place. 

Oh well, on ward and upward! Writing appointment on the way today. Female drummer I've known for a while.

MAB
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OD OldDog
#4422

MAB,  S.O.B.  How could anyone be JaLinda times 10???  I couldn't keep up with JaLinda in her humor and quick witt, how the hell could I hang in there with anyone like JaLinda times 10???


 


Holy Crap, the old guy is going to have to brush up on some old lines, get a hair cut, trim my toe nails and nose hair.  I'm going to have to buy a new wardrobe and leave on the tags to impress her I bought them just for her.  S.O.B.


 


What if I get tongue tied or have a senior moment and forget what I was going to say???   What is I have gas and can't help myself???   What if it wasn't gas after all.....OMG.   MAB this is a lot of pressure on the Old Dog.  What if I find her so lovely I move her to the top of my "Love You Best" list and she doesn't want to be there???   Now, I know rejection so that won't bother me at all; but how do I deal with Philboy's emotion  if he feels bad for me because his Ol Buddy just got shot down??? 


 


What about my other Girl-friends I "Love Best" and I move Missy ahead of them on my list.  S.O.B.  What about Pam at the Regatta, I kind of innocently proposed to her if I could loosen my knees up between now and when we arrive.  S.O.B.  Is she going to throw me and Philboy out of our Condo???  Will we have to buy a tent at Wal-Mart and live on the beach???   Will Philboy and I become old beach bums with sunburns???   Will you come down and visit with us???  S.O.B.


 


I don't know MAB, this Missy gal sounds like a lot for the Old Dog to handle.  Do you think she would be interested in hearing about History and D-Day or the Cival War???   Maybe politics and the up coming election.  Maybe the new movement I hope to start "Old Lives Matter".  S.O.B.   I don't even know much about music history, I was entertaining the girls in the back of the class while you were discussing that subject.  Holy Crap???   What if she asks my opinion about copyrights???   What the hell do I tell her.  S.O.B.  What if she wants to dance.  Holy Crap,  I know you don't like for anyone to dance during your performance.  Should I dance with her and piss you off; or refuse and piss her off.  S.O.B. MAB.  I thought this trip was going to be fun and enjoyable.  S.O.B.


 


OMG!!!   You guys are going to cause the Old Dog to drink.  Wait a minute.   What if they turned on the beer spicket and I could give a crap less about what anybody thinks.  I may come out of my shell and dance like Fred Astaire, jump on stage to sing harmony with you and Jimbeau and recite a poem before I leave the stage.  I may use my credit card to buy so much champagne even Missy thinks the Old Dog looks good.  Hell, before she has time to sober up the next morning I may hire an airplane to fly in front of the Regatta pulling a banner that reads "Missy, will you marry me".  S.O.B.


 


I could dig a hole deep enough in the sand I could propose and make it look like I'm on my knees.  We could have a "Jammie Wedding" on the beach and the Old Dog wouldn't even have to change clothes.  You could sing Elvis songs at the wedding reception on the balcony and Philboy could drive his car with empty beer cans tied to the back to your next show.  S.O.B. MAB.  I've got this.  The Old Dog will be ready and in control.


 


By the way MAB, if OD gets married, does that mean I can't rent the Julie Moriva suite from you and Tina???


 


What if we end up in divorce, does that mean you will have to choose sides.  Will we still be friends???   Can I come to your Birthday Bash next July or to Frank Brown next November. Can I still come down with Philboy to see you on Wednesdays at Sam's Jam???  Will JaLinda and Tina speak to me since I dropped them from my "Love You Best" list and married Missy.  Maybe I could declare "temporary too much beer indeed" and get off on a technicality. 


 


Awe MAB, you are causing the Old Dog so much concern.  Wait....... what was her name again???   Missy???  You say she looks pretty good.  S.O.B.    Okay, the Old Dog is in.  I wouldn't missy it for the world.  Ha!!!


 


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Holy Crap, 

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Phillip (phil g.) Grigg
#4423

Well OD, I think this says it all for you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-diB65scQU


philboy

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OD OldDog
#4424

Philboy, that is certainly a catchy tune but:


 


Don't Worry, I'm Happy


 


OD


 


 

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