| Thanksginving Day gorge-fest generates weird dreams
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This morning about 3 AM I woke from a dream in which I go to a bar and they are having an open mic night. The manager, who knows I play electric bass, asks me to play for the night since no bass players had signed up, and he says I can use the house bass and amp. I agree, and when I get on stage I see that the bass is a 5 string double bass, but I figure I'll do my best to get through it. It also turns out that Flea has just shown up and agreed to play bass but they didn't want to be rude and kick me off the stage since they had asked me to play first. So both of us will play bass at the same time.
We play a few standard songs and I ask the sound tech to keep me very low in the mix so that the audience will hear mostly Flea and not much of me flailing away on a bass that I'm barely competent to play. Then Flea decides we are going to start playing songs off of his new solo bass album (that hasn't come out yet) and he's trying to teach me the songs "on the fly". Of course, I'm making lots of mistakes so I ask the sound guy to take me completely out of the main mix.
Then my ex-wife shows up and decides to do me a favor and tells the sound guy to turn me up in the mix so that I'm louder than Flea. Naturally, this is a disaster and Flea stops playing and says into the microphone "That's awful, do you even know how to play a bass?" I reply that I'm used to playing a 4 string electric and "I feel like I'm drowning" playing this 5 string upright bass. Flea says, "You don't really know what it feels like to be drowning" and he tells the audience to tie me up and drag me out to a nearby pond and throw me in. Then I experience what it's like to drown and right after I die I wake up.
In spite of the symbolism that's so thick it's ridiculous, there actually is a lesson I can learn from my dream: Don't eat a big plate of cold, leftover duck with orange sauce and three deviled eggs on the side followed by a slice of French silk pie at 11 PM on Thanksgiving night right before you go to bed.
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Last edited by hbarcat : 11-28-2008 at 04:16 PM.
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