{"id":886,"date":"2012-07-04T22:37:29","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T05:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=886"},"modified":"2021-01-08T19:33:27","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T03:33:27","slug":"how-to-torture-a-professionally-trained-musician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2012\/07\/04\/how-to-torture-a-professionally-trained-musician\/","title":{"rendered":"How to torture a professionally trained musician&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in Grand Junction Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>My Traveling companion and I went to an Applebees for dinner. You know\u2026 you only want to eat junk food for just so long before you want a salad and steak.<\/p>\n<p>So in we go and the place is pretty busy, but we get seated pretty fast. As we sit down I&#8217;m presented with one of those things that really bugs the crap out of me. 4 or 5 different languages being spoken loudly all within earshot. I don&#8217;t know why it just makes me a nut job. I know that part of it is my locking onto the parts of those languages I do understand and then thinking all the other stuff I should understand and well \u2026 That&#8217;s my problem! You know\u2026 one of many!<\/p>\n<p>All this annoyance about the hodgepodge of languages pales as the night entertainment begins to sing.<\/p>\n<p>He calls himself &#8220;Wailin Willey&#8221; and well, I&#8217;ve heard better sounds from a cat whose tail was caught under a rocking chair.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly I can no longer hear all the languages around me\u2026 <strong>HELL<\/strong> I can&#8217;t even hear my traveling companion across the table.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of which\u2026<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;d have thought that something foul and diseased had just been delivered as the main course. I thought he was going to get up and strangle the lame assed singer.<\/p>\n<p>I know &#8220;Wailin Willey&#8221; was seriously sucking but hey what could I do? I mean we&#8217;d already ordered! I simply chose to ignore the &#8220;music&#8221; as if I was in a machine shop where all the air ratchets were vein used at once\u2026 (<em>Been there, a preferable experience by the way to hearing Wailin Willey<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>As we were discussing in loud voices so that we could hear each other over the Wailin the fact that we could not now leave\u2026 a lady at the table behind Jerry asked the waiter for earplugs and some ketchup.<\/p>\n<p>At which point I busted up laughing!<\/p>\n<p>I suggested that perhaps Willey could have a unlikely freak accident involving a slip &amp; fall situation which resulted in the microphone cord being wrapped several times around his neck and the microphone ending up in an unlikely orifice. A subsequent tragic tripping over his untied shoelaces would find poor Willey accidentally strangling himself with his sound system. I think there&#8217;s an allusion to one being hoisted by his own petard in there somewhere&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Finally <strong>AFTER<\/strong> almost 40 minutes we got our food and less than 20 minutes later I was out the front door of the place.<\/p>\n<p>But I learned something&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If I ever want to torture a classically \u00a0trained professional musician, all I have to do is find the shittiest singer I can whose playing in a small venue. Then take my musician friend to the place and buy them watered down well drinks.<\/p>\n<p>I figure after about two hours of that\u2026 My musician friend will be compliant to just about any deviant whim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in Grand Junction Colorado. My Traveling companion and I went to an Applebees for dinner. You know\u2026 you only want to eat junk food for just so long before you want a salad and steak. So in we go and the place is pretty busy, but we get seated pretty fast. As we sit &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2012\/07\/04\/how-to-torture-a-professionally-trained-musician\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to torture a professionally trained musician&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,18,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-humor","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":899,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions\/899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}