1.10.07

Category: dribblings

i played bass with some very nice gentlemen at the vineyard church on sunday. it’s always great to play with those guys because they’ve been playing guitar for so long that the instrument is just another part of their body. it seems effortless for them to play. and they’re quite laidback about what i play and they never say anything like, “what the hell are you doing?” they just let me play what i play. and what i play is basically the same thing that the bassist for U2 would play. have you ever listened to a bassline of theirs? it’s nothing extraordinary. at all. i mean, who wants to compete with The Edge and Bono? their bassist just plays enough to hold the song together. he’s brilliant. my bass playing is simple too, but not because i’m brilliant but because i’ve barely got a grasp of what i’m doing.

i also got to play with jimmy h. on drums. and it’s always a pleasure to play with him because he’s a fantastic drummer. plus i was in a band with him back in the day. so it’s like old times. although that’s not saying too much because everyone’s been in a band with jimmy h.
hee!

anyway, before worship the band goes and prays for…you know whatever. and so there i am standing with all these guys. these wise, older gents. and for some reason i’ve got “holy men” stuck in my head. as in, here i am surrounded, literally, by holy men. and it’s strange because i can’t help but think, “how did i get here?” 

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in other, nonspiritual random:
i am really glad that both cal ripken jr. and tony gwynn were elected to the baseball hall of fame. i was talking to my paint monkey buddy mike today about it and we were both not surprised that mcgwire was not elected. i doubt he’ll get elected. i shouldn’t say that. but i think there’s just too much controversy around it. i’m surprised he and jose “douche bag” canseco were on the ballot at all. i know they were great players who really made baseball more exciting to watch, but so was mr. pete rose, and they won’t let him in. and pete rose made baseball exciting without performance enhancing drugs. plus his indescretion was while he was manager and not a player and oh hell it’s not like i’m a huge pete rose fan…i’m not, but it seems like a farce to have known drug addicts (hi, dave parker!) and players who used steriods on the damn ballot.

so it’s an awesome thing that out of the list of hooligans the two voted in were supremely amazing players and all around great men of the game. i also dig that both ripken and gwynn played their whole careers on one team, ripken for the orioles and gwynn for the padres. i think it says a lot when a team keeps the same player for 20 years or more.

anyway, enough of this sports junk.

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