It's all good...
Ahh...much goodness on this Sunday...
Recovered well from my Nashville trip yesterday. Managed to escape Guitar Center without buying more than few sets of strings and a mini boom mic stand to mic my guitar amp. Managed to escape Korner Music with nothing more than much-needed earpiece replacements for our in-ear monitors. Total spent? Less than $60.
Wait...we did 'splurge' at Joe's Crab Shack for lunch. D'oh. Sad when you spend as much on lunch for 3 as you do on music supplies. But...lobster...mmm...good...(I wipe drool off the keyboard at this point...)
Had good conversation with Jack S. on the way home from Nashville. Very refreshing to talk to someone older and on the 'other side' of a lot of life's issues. Not that he's issue-free by any stretch (by his own admission), but he's got a wisdom and insight into things that only comes through experience. I need to surround myself with people like that, too...so that I don't get self-consumed by my own 'arrogance,' I guess.
As usual, the music had its share of 'glitches' this morning. And, though others have made too much of my so-called 'Turret's' instance of trying to get J-mo to stop drumming where he was supposed to in one song, my first, more subtle 'wave' was not noticed, so my second has become blog-worthy. So much for the subtle suggestion...since it didn't work!! D'oh. I guess there's nothing wrong with singing 'holy, holy, holy' one more 'stanza' just to get it right :-)
But, asking "how did it sound" and "did everything go smoothly" is still just part of the equation. "Was God experience?" From what I hear, I think so. The message hit home for people. People connected well with some of the songs. Not us...a God-thing. And it's important for me to pause to see if this happened, 'cause sometimes - being in the band - it's so busy for us onstage that we can setup, play, sit down and stay too busy to notice anything God does. But good things seemed to happen this morning for many people, and that's worth pausing to celebrate...
After a nice lunch at Firehouse Subs, went BACK to church to rehearse for the VBC. Though Jack S. and Philip H. are still getting acquainted with the music, I can tell their talent and passion to serve will be more than enough for things to start to come together. I still can't believe how much Philip has helped us out over the past few months...and he doesn't even go to our church. Wow.
At small group tonight, it was awesome to have a small acoustic jam session. Kyle, Scott, and I played our 6- and 12- strings, while Eric played my acoustic bass and J-mo jammed on his (awesome) new djembe. After we got done playing a while...all I could think was, "how do we take this 'intimate' music/worship/fun experience to the crowd on Sunday a.m.? Sorry...always a bit ministry-oriented in my thoughts...
THEN...d'oh...we switched from art and talent to...Aqua Teen Hunger Force. oh...good...grief. Me now have IQ of hee-lee-um bulloon. But tur-neeng so stoopid wuz fun...'cuz me got 2 laff at meatwad and da floating talking french fries.
Props to Eli for calling me around 9:45 (after leaving small group) just to tell me she saw a new 2005 Mustang at Burger King. :-). After I also saw one on a truck on the interstate yesterday, I'm beginning to think the one could really be a nice replacement for the Expedition. Smaller...but... Aw...come on, it's a new Mustang that looks like a vintage Mustang. It's like the one in my garage...but with fuel injection...air bags...power features...better handling...and, they actually run :-\. It's NEW...not old. Well, mine does run, but I use the word 'run' lightly when I think about the knocking sound the engine makes...and the rust...and the redneck wheels...and the... how much are the new ones?
KEY PHRASES: "Kyle can sing???????? Who knew??" "Would waving my middle finger work better? (um...scratch that idea...then that really might be 'turretts.')." "What? You're leaving Birmingham? It all traces back to that lousy green bean bag, doesn't it? (i.e., "I've got a problem with that bean bag!"...yes, only Chad will laugh at this).
Recovered well from my Nashville trip yesterday. Managed to escape Guitar Center without buying more than few sets of strings and a mini boom mic stand to mic my guitar amp. Managed to escape Korner Music with nothing more than much-needed earpiece replacements for our in-ear monitors. Total spent? Less than $60.
Wait...we did 'splurge' at Joe's Crab Shack for lunch. D'oh. Sad when you spend as much on lunch for 3 as you do on music supplies. But...lobster...mmm...good...(I wipe drool off the keyboard at this point...)
Had good conversation with Jack S. on the way home from Nashville. Very refreshing to talk to someone older and on the 'other side' of a lot of life's issues. Not that he's issue-free by any stretch (by his own admission), but he's got a wisdom and insight into things that only comes through experience. I need to surround myself with people like that, too...so that I don't get self-consumed by my own 'arrogance,' I guess.
As usual, the music had its share of 'glitches' this morning. And, though others have made too much of my so-called 'Turret's' instance of trying to get J-mo to stop drumming where he was supposed to in one song, my first, more subtle 'wave' was not noticed, so my second has become blog-worthy. So much for the subtle suggestion...since it didn't work!! D'oh. I guess there's nothing wrong with singing 'holy, holy, holy' one more 'stanza' just to get it right :-)
But, asking "how did it sound" and "did everything go smoothly" is still just part of the equation. "Was God experience?" From what I hear, I think so. The message hit home for people. People connected well with some of the songs. Not us...a God-thing. And it's important for me to pause to see if this happened, 'cause sometimes - being in the band - it's so busy for us onstage that we can setup, play, sit down and stay too busy to notice anything God does. But good things seemed to happen this morning for many people, and that's worth pausing to celebrate...
After a nice lunch at Firehouse Subs, went BACK to church to rehearse for the VBC. Though Jack S. and Philip H. are still getting acquainted with the music, I can tell their talent and passion to serve will be more than enough for things to start to come together. I still can't believe how much Philip has helped us out over the past few months...and he doesn't even go to our church. Wow.
At small group tonight, it was awesome to have a small acoustic jam session. Kyle, Scott, and I played our 6- and 12- strings, while Eric played my acoustic bass and J-mo jammed on his (awesome) new djembe. After we got done playing a while...all I could think was, "how do we take this 'intimate' music/worship/fun experience to the crowd on Sunday a.m.? Sorry...always a bit ministry-oriented in my thoughts...
THEN...d'oh...we switched from art and talent to...Aqua Teen Hunger Force. oh...good...grief. Me now have IQ of hee-lee-um bulloon. But tur-neeng so stoopid wuz fun...'cuz me got 2 laff at meatwad and da floating talking french fries.
Props to Eli for calling me around 9:45 (after leaving small group) just to tell me she saw a new 2005 Mustang at Burger King. :-). After I also saw one on a truck on the interstate yesterday, I'm beginning to think the one could really be a nice replacement for the Expedition. Smaller...but... Aw...come on, it's a new Mustang that looks like a vintage Mustang. It's like the one in my garage...but with fuel injection...air bags...power features...better handling...and, they actually run :-\. It's NEW...not old. Well, mine does run, but I use the word 'run' lightly when I think about the knocking sound the engine makes...and the rust...and the redneck wheels...and the... how much are the new ones?
KEY PHRASES: "Kyle can sing???????? Who knew??" "Would waving my middle finger work better? (um...scratch that idea...then that really might be 'turretts.')." "What? You're leaving Birmingham? It all traces back to that lousy green bean bag, doesn't it? (i.e., "I've got a problem with that bean bag!"...yes, only Chad will laugh at this).
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