It just Keeps Getting Better And Better IV: Guitars!!!

Hmm.

Wow.. just had an awesome afternoon and evening with Gerry and Magdalene (aka Mags) partially down at Father Flanagan's, then Guitar Workshop and finally Molly Malone's. Gosh, what a day.

I had met up with Gerry for some lunch at Father Flanny's and wound up staying until 4:15pm because then Gerry could leave from his contractual obligation to stick around in the pub in case he's ever needed to play a set or two. So we just sat there and chatted the afternoon away and then comes in Gerry's girlfriend Mags and we stuck around until 4:15 before moving on to Guitar Workshop.

I had called up Lawrence who manned Guitar Workshop and we arrived there and let Gerry have a good look at the amplifier and a couple of guitars. Within 20 mintues or so of looking around and podering his decision, he finally bought a brand new Epiphone Les Paul (with a beautiful wine-red finish and guitar hard-case and strap) and a Vox 15-watt amplifier for a grand total of 900 dollars.

My lord, you guys should have seen the estatic look of joy on Gerry's face, which was coupled with Lawrence's look of gratitude towards me when Gerry left the shop. Lawrence was pratically hugging me for bringing him such good business. In the end, Gerry also expressed his gratitude for introducing me to that shop, and coolest part of it all was when Gerry decided to name his brand new guitar in my honour.

What can be cooler than that? I've been talking to Gerry on how I could possibly get a gig from McCraic's boss Colin Macdonald. Gerry had told me several times before that Colin would have very little qualms about me performing in his pubs and so on, but the only thing which stood in the way was Colin's busy schedule, which only enables Gerry the ability to sell the idea when Colin is in a good mood or when he was availible (which is not so very often).

Well Gerry's mentioned that he'd sell the idea of me performing regularly to Colin when he gets back from a business trip or something. I would not expect too much from Gerry or Colin, because the higher the expectation from anything, the greater the disappointment. Apparently, Gerry's pretty psyched about the whole idea because I've already like played close to two-dozen friday-night sets, and it's been getting better and better (or so a couple of people have commented as such to Gerry, and he told me in turn) and although now I've injured my fretting hand, it's still pretty much a 75-80% possibility I'll get the job.

Today was a good day.. I managed to single-handedly (pardon the pun) gain the gratitude and trust of the two people I least expected to receive it from, and that feeling has now put me on top of the world. I can't say anything now except I'm happy for both men, and it feels good to help these guys out whenever possible.


Cheers,

Crawldaddy