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Another Day in the life

So, this is what I got from my friends over in Sunland after asking if we were rehearsing again:

Hello Dan:

I apologize for not contacting you after our meeting to follow up. I thought I had and just realized I hadn’t.

(I thought I had?- Who thinks they thought I had?)

Thank you for coming. I hope you enjoyed the experience and dinner. We certainly enjoyed meeting you and playing some of your songs.

We played this past weekend. (Meaning that I hadn't invited them to any of my gigs.)

We just uploaded a bunch of songs on our Twitter:
https://twitter.com/storytellers_LA/ (Cool, I guess.)

Almost all of our tunes are uptempo songs, Dan. We would need a much more experienced banjo player to accompany us. (They play at in the 60s beats per minute. I play in the 80s, edging into 90s, I was trying to slow down to match their slower pace.)

It didn’t seem possible after playing together that you would be able to reproduce the sort of playing that you do on your CD. For a long time, we couldn’t produce the same sound as on our CD. (He had forced me into hiring the guy I recorded it with- I was supposed to pay him, It would have sounded exactly like the recording if I'm playing with him on it- What kind of idiocy logic is this?)

Unfortunately, Dan, we have a full schedule of shows coming up without much time to rehearse to get these songs up to speed. (60s beats per minute)

We’re going to have to rearrange the schedule of the SunSpace concert/fundraiser with someone who has more experience at this time. We might actually scrub the show altogether and start over since it’s coming up fast.

I’m very sorry about that and I regret being careless and scheduling this gig before playing together to see if there was better chemistry.

We’re open to working with you down the road if we can get there.

I hope there are no hard feelings, Dan. We like you very much and admire your songs and your singing as much.

Sincerely,

Michael

(The guy is a pimp, he has two boys playing in his band which are unpaid and are living with him. And probably the other two in the band as hired hands. This is what pimps do. They create a situation where you are supposed to feel bad that you have not lived up to their expectations. This ia what he is doing to the two boys that are living with him. (This was my response):

"You know exactly why this wasn’t going to work. I completely understand. I’ll never be one of the boys. It was difficult trying to play down to your stupid covers that are halfway there."

They are doing Tom Petty and "wanta be" Jerry Garcia, and Donovan and sing off key. He told my recording guy that I had cancelled the event. Who does Tom Petty covers? Or Donovan covers? My wife asked me to turn it off about the third time I listened to it.

Ya wanta to hear some really bad singing, check out:
https://soundcloud.com/…/the-storytellers-sisters-and-broth…

I would have lied, and just said, I'm sorry, its not working out. I've done it myself too many times. I don't try to prove why I think I'm maybe better. Because I never do. I also try to to be responsive to real people. Not people I think are pawns.