Gig Talk

Gig Talk

So even though I am an only child, I feel like a big brother at times. What does a big brother do? He protects, harasses, corrects, punches, loves, and gives his sibling the hardest time ever when they mess up. Prime case example. Cozmo has been a guitar player in our band for about 3 years. We dig sports, funky music, and funny stories. Over these years I feel like an older brother to him. When we recently stayed at a friends house after a gig in Johnson City, Coz and I played Wii baseball..........and there’s video to prove it.

I am really glad I don’t keep up with all of the latest video games. Between being newly married, the band and work, I don’t have a lot of time for video games. Coz had played the Wii system before and told me how easy it was. I agreed and he asked me, “What do we play?” Since I dig the mano y mano challenge, I went with baseball. Now mind you, I’ve NEVER touched the Wii before this day. We decide to keep it interesting and make our players look like ourselves. He went with the fro and glasses and I went with the basic white guy, brown hair, blue eyes look. I looked like an extra on Silver Spoons for those who can remember.

Coz showed me how to pitch and how to swing. He then proceeded to tell me how I better not mess with him as he is quite good at this game. So after a few swings and pitches, I get the gist of it. Coz did crank a home run pretty early in the competition and boy did I hear about it. So it took me a little while, but I picked up on hitting. It ended up that I BEAT Coz the 1st game, 3 to 2. I was loving it. He was shocked. Coz was a little under the weather with a head cold, but he refused to believe that I beat him. Therefore.................can you say REMATCH!

So I’m feeling pretty good about now, but the 2nd game is a little more intense. A lot more trash talking. We had 3 and out in the first couple of innings. So Coz keeps running his mouth about how I am going down. I was telling him it was hard to hear him up here in Winnerville. So it comes down to I have 2 men in scoring position in the bottom of the last inning. Coz gets creative on his pitches and I am in a 3 balls to 2 strike count. This means that the game is one pitch away from being over. So I expect him to throw the fastball..........I waited, waited, and............................BLASTED A 3 RUN SHOT!!! I was a little out of character but I talked so much smack that you would have thought I was related to Muhammad Ali. I took the video camera and captured the moment............or should I say moments??

To sum up:

Robalicious ( Winner) 2 games to ZERO
Cozfro ( 2 time loser ) I think he ran to his mama’s

To See More visit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtD22Gnw0z4


Musician Tips:

If you take nothing else from me, take this: Use ear protection. I unfortunately didn’t start using it until a couple of years ago. Because of this, I now have that high pitched ring all the time in my ears. I now use Hearos. They are really cheap, but they are so nice when you take them out and can actually hear people talk the next day.

Until next time.........Peace and Chicken Grease,