PUP

How much do you worry about your guitars? Do you worry more about your guitars than about Global Warming? Do you lay in bed at night, worrying that the guitar down at your luthier is not next to you, safe near your bed (or in your bed)? I don't count sheep at night... I count guitars. I know you do too. If you have a regular paying job, then all day you wait to get back to your music room. If you are a guitar teacher/ professional musician... or ex-80's-glam-rock-band-lead-guitarist-now-turned- teacher, then count yourself lucky. I know... lucky to be driving all over Los Angeles (or New York.. or some other town)... lucky to see that same budding future-rockstar of 2016 do his scales... maybe faster than you currently do. Lucky that his mother uses the lessons to try and pick you up... knowing full well that you know her husband is into the international pharmaceutical import/export business (and has a problem with blind rages). You are still lucky to be amongst the few who live the dream... the dream to do what you love for your life work. Those others have to be happy with their half hour in the music room, while their wife handles the kids. A toast today... to those who live the life they love... even if there is no money in it. (Remember, most famous musicians are RFM... Rich, Famous and Miserable, while you are PUP... Poor, Unknown but PLAYING).