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I’ve been a bad blogger lately. The trip to Nashville followed by getting sick in the midst of finishing up my second five week term at ECPI left me with little time for blogging. In fact, I should be doing work for my final presentation in Computer Applications right now.

Anyway, in case you haven’t noticed, a band I play with, “The Jay Rakes Band,” will be opening up for King’s X on April 7th, so that’s pretty cool. Jay, Tripp and I don’t agree on much of anything but we all like King’s X so we’re excited about that.

I’ve been a really crappy musician lately as well. Can’t seem to make myself practice. I’m just so bored with bass sometimes. It’s fun to play with people, but getting the thing out of it’s case while it is at home has become quite a chore. I don’t know what my problem is, but I am afraid that once I get out of ECPI and start working more that it will always be like this and I won’t want to play music at all. I hope it doesn’t work out that way. It was never my intention to become a “weekend warrior.” I think I need another band project.

My friend, Brett Miller, sent me a CD of tunes he wants me to write and record bass lines for. That should keep me on my toes. Brett is a metal guy, and I haven’t played metal in awhile. He’s not your typical metal guy, though. Brett is simultaneously one of the oddest and most intelligent people I know, in addition to being a great guitarist and composer. I think we spent more time talking about alien abductions in college than music, but thats probably for the better. I tend to think of Brett simply as a good friend who happens to play an instrument, which has become the way I see the majority of my musician friends. We don’t have a professional relationship necessarily, we don’t talk only about music, but we have that common thread and, even if we don’t talk about it, we know it is ultimately what keeps us connected.