Hello guys,
No Phil, you don't have to worry about me and any gambling casinos. I actually "CAN'T STAND CASINOS!" The noise, the constant movement,l and all the things going on give me a kind of panic vertigo. Whenever we go, (because Tina. Tommy and Susie, Larry and Beckett, and other travel friends LOVE THEM) I will be found with a book or walking around to get away from the noise.
We were trying to kill time Friday night between the ending of shows and the time for the massive guitar pull that started after midnight. Tina loves to play Blackjack we had two hours to kill so we went. Biloxi is over the bridge from Ocean Springs, about two miles away. So we went. I sat at the table and Tina told me what to do. it made me really uneasy, just kind of throwing money away. I don't see how people can do it. Tina is pretty good and wins more than she loses, but knows how to do it just for fun. Has a certain amount and that is it once that is gone.
We played for about two hours and managed to win a little bit. I was never so ready to end up and leave. There are so many cameras, and people standing around watching every move you make, you feel like you are going to make some mistake or some wrong hand gesture and they are going to throw you in jail for some violation of some obscure rules. It's all very disconcerting. But Tina loves it and she has done so much to get me to this trip, I needed to do something she liked. So we did. But I was pretty glad to get out of there. Casinos are JUST NOT MY THING AT ALL!
So don't worry about me getting sucked into the gambling thing. I am involved in another, larger, continuous gamble.
It's called THE ENTERTAINMENT BUSINESS. You can lose money at that all the time. Just put your money in the demo slot machine and I can assure you it will come up empty more times than you ever hit. And when you hit, if you are lucky, you just might break even on your previous gambling debts from other demos. And then of course, that will just get you wanting to do more demos..write more songs, play more gigs....yeah, you'll be hooked bad!
There's no more addictive substance than music.
I always thought I should start "MUSICAHOLIC'S ANNONOMYS" chapter. Could start very young with these 12-15 year olds, have family couciling with their MOMANGERS AND DADINGERS, rapid response teams picketing outside of writers rooms, studios, ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, have big protest marches with signs against SPOTIFY, PANDORA, and then INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS, go to Congress and get damages from these companies for financial ruin of music related injuries, get people on class action lawsuits for guitar and keyboard, recording equipment, PRO TOOLS, microphone companies, effects companies, and bring ALL OF THEM DOWN for the destruction of human existance. Then I could win BILLIONS in my class action lawsuit and finally achieve my biggest goal.
Stamping out all drummers in the world!!!
Then I would turn my sights on DANCERS. I could get them for dental damage and blocking my vision. I could shut them down and get billions from DANCING WITH THE STARS, and put them out of business. THEN I could go to AMERICAN IDOL and the VOICE for damaging the youth of America.
Pretty soon I could be on the cover of TIME, NEWSWEEK and all the news sources as THE MAN WHO FINISHED OFF MUSIC in the world!!!!!
Man, I like this. Gotta go. I have some calls to lawyers I need to make!!!
MAB