Music Part One

Today is Friday December Eleventh Two Thousand Oh Nine and I am excited. Not only because it is Friday and I can get the hell out of Childrens Hospital Boston for the weekend but I am seeing some music tonight. Music has always been an important part of my life, I grew up going to sleep listening to my mother play the piano or the harp. I also had the task of moving my mom's harp to various performances which really sucked. Moving a full size harp is a pain in the ass in its self but add the fact that the musician is watching you move it and oh yeah, she is your mom. I hate the expression win-win situation but this was defiantly a lose-lose one.

I have a very wide range of musical tastes, from country, bluegrass, jazz, blues, and classical to jambands, hard rock, metal, thrash, and hardcore. As mentioned previously I am a big fan of the Grateful Dead and I had the oppurtunity to see them upwards of fifty times, the same goes for Widespread Panic. PH!SH on the other hand I have seen them probably well over 200 times. How can someone see a band that many times you may ask ? Its pretty easy, I have been going to PH!SH shows since Nineteen Eighty Nine and it is now Two Thousand Oh Nine. Simple math will tell you that is only ten shows a year and when I was younger I got to see fifteen to twenty a year. I will be the first to admit that I've seen them too many times but for me it was more than just a concert. There are many friends that I would only see on tour and it was a great social situation as well. Plus the drugs were awesome, much better than Dead tour. So I went to go see a band and score drugs, wow thats a new one.

I am going to write much more on bands and music later and I want to write about the band I am seeing tonight. It is the acoustic version of the band Hot Tuna with two guys named Jorma and Jack playing. Almost all of their songs have been covered by one person or another but these are the dudes that actually wrote them. They are some of my musical heroes and I respect the low key way they go about their lives and music. They are playing in a church in Harvard Square for gods sake, how much more laid back can you get. So after work I am headed to a AA meeting in Harvard Square and then plan to meet up with my friend Katie and perhaps my friend Jessica and go to the show. Jessica tends to blow me off last minute so I will believe it when I see it. She is a good friend and a cool girl tho its worth putting up with it.

Well, its time for me to talk a little about my recovery and I am surprised that it has taken this long for me to talk about it. Music has been very important in my recovery and has given me the ability to relax when I am around people drinking. I was in a bar seeing a friend's band on my 31st day of sobriety and it really didn't bother me and hasn't since. I didn't really drink all that much publicly as I would much rather drink by myself where I couldn't make an ass out of myself. So I am excited for tonight because I get to go to a Cambridge AA meeting which is a total babefest and then go some some musical heroes of mine. Yes, there are pretty girls in AA and I appreciate them very much. They smell good, are cool to talk to, and easy on the eyes and its one of the reasons I like going to Cambridge AA so much. I just don't act on my feelings because I am not altogether sure that dating or sleeping with someone in my local AA group would be a very wise idea.