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Thursday, December 20, 2007

Fire Test

Your house is on fire... your girlfriend is throwing all her new Victoria's Secret™ underwear into a trash bag to carry out, and you, naturally, think about grabbing a baby...the electrical kind. Which one? Tuner to your head... right now... WHICH ONE?!?!? Whichever one that guitar is, it's now "Fire Test" your #1 (yeh, like SRV's #1, only yours). So you bump the case down the stairs, pretending that once you get this guitar out and away from the house (and any risk of fire damage), you WILL be back to help her with some of the furniture, photos and Gammie's Bowl collection. You come back in the front door... the East Wing is still burning... what's next? How about getting ONE more out... WHICH ONE?!?!?!? THAT is your number 2 (like SRV's #2, only yours). You yell to your girl "I am going upstairs to see what I can grab..."... your heart beats... you just need to get out that front door with #2, without being caught by her, like a deer in headlights, holding a guitar case close to your chest, your scared, beady eyes aware you have been caught. The rest can burn, Right? NO! Darn it! NOTHING musical can burn... if time allowed it, the last thing out will be your cables and gig bags. Meanwhile... Gammie's bowls are definitely a gonner... unless they come after the gig bags...