My guilty pleasure has become my evenings
sitting in my studio
listening to the songs of my youth, while I drink heavily.
One time, When I was 25, I was sitting in a music shop,
on Thursday afternoon,
quietly playing a Fender guitar.
Most people, on a Thursday afternoon,
play the guitar, or drums, or bass, loudly.
Wailing through whatever the loudest piece of radio schlock
something that they just learned on tablature
Or something cliché like “Smoke on the whatever”
So I was sitting there,
Playing something, something I had written
Something simple
Because I am self-conscious about my own abilities
I was playing with the volume
Waaay Down
Out of the Corner of my eye
I notice a guy had come over
And was playing, quietly, along with me
He smiled politely at me when I stopped and said
“Hey Bro, wanna be in a band?”
I demurred with a nervous, “Sure”
He assured me he was serious
and handed me a card
I told him I’d think about it
I didn’t.
I assumed he was fucking with me
And I lost the card.
Several Months later, that band
With a new guitarist in tow
Joined the Warped tour
And I thought I’d lost my shot.
My only Shot!
There would be no more.
Ever.
So, now, years later I sit in my studio
surrounded by accoutrements of songwriting and music
Listening to the music of the age that I gave up my shot.
It is not as if I feel much self-pity.
To be honest I have a pretty good life.
I have a beautiful wife, and
I write.
I create,
I make music,
I sculpt.
But…
When I hear that sound.
That 90’s sound.
I can barely describe it
It’s like the 60’s
But not quite
There is a groove that runs through my soul
A groove with a social conscious.
A groove with a Hammond B3.
A groove with layered guitars.
A Wallflowers,
Soundgarden,
Tonic,
Chris Cornell,
Big wreck ambience,
That reminds me of time when I was sitting in a music shop on a Thursday afternoon.
About the Creator
William King
Gen X Dad, Musician, Writer, Artist and Visionary. These are the thought that invade my mind. I share them with you! Do you feel lucky! YOU SHOULD!
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