Spending the money the right way

This weekend I was invited by Costin, long time friend and lead singer in the same band as me (he comments from time to time here on this blog under the name of axlfuckingrose), to a private party with some of his friends. I didn’t know what to expect, but he told me it involves playing the guitar so I brought my acoustic guitar with me, in case I would need it.

Well, seems that it was some kind of getting together of old friends that didn’t see each other for some time now. Everything happened at the headquarters of a private company that one of his friends owns. This friend had the pleasure of throwing this party for his friends in this building he arranged so they could spend the weekends there: gym upstairs and table tennis and offices downstairs.

To my surprise, he had also the pleasure of buying some instruments so they could all jam there during weekends: one electric guitar, one bass guitar, 2 combos, 2 microphones, 2 bongos and a mini PA system(with mixer, power speakers, etc), so, beside a drum kit, you had there everything you wanted in order to jam along!!

Since they were all bought from Harley Benton, it looked kind in a promotional party: the brand could have been seen everywhere and the instruments had the price stamp still hanging on. I remember at one moment somebody came with a cutter to cut down the price stamps (while I was playing) and I couldn’t understand in the beginning why is he coming with that cutter to me?!

During a lot of hours, we sang, played the guitar and bass, ate grilled steaks, drank beer and had a good time, considering that we stopped seeing like this since a while.

At the end of the party I could tell you the following:

• I’m rusty!
• Rocking with the band is way harder than solo rehearsing, doh!
• Nothing removes stress better than jamming and a beer
• Too much Vodka is bad for music! (one guy there put one microphone inside his mouth while singing so you can imagine…)

I remember we played a lot of Romanian rock songs and also songs like Wonderful tonight, Don’t cry, Knocking on heavens doors, some Take that, etc. One thing I can’t understand is why it is so hard to remember songs you used to know by heart. We used to sing these songs at almost every party and they came so naturally to us. Not this time…Well, time goes by, right?

After getting home I have payed some thinking about the party and what lies behind it. You know, I would also love to afford the luxury of arranging a private club for my friends to meet them there every weekend. It would be great! Don’t you think?

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