Dear All Ya’ll

I have been a music lover all my life. I started playing piano when I was 6 and have not looked back since. I love all aspects of music and haven’t met a genre I can’t at least appreciate. I am not a huge country fan but living in Nashville it is kind of hard not to keep up.

I have a beef with the 3 of you and I need to ask you to stop this immediately.

You are fooling nobody with your Guitar “playing”.

Yes I said it. I know that you are holding that big nice Taylor or Takamine and the sound guy doesn’t even have you turned on. We all know that you hit about once or twice a song and you look like an idiot just holding it up there. You are all great singers and songwriters… well at least Alan is… and you need to leave the real guitar playing up to your very capable backing band. You all look like goofs up there just holding the things and not even attempting to play them.

So the gig is up! Stop with the guitar hold’n.

Leave the guitar playing up to real guitar players like Brad Paisley and Keith Urban… At least they actually know how to play!

Sincerely,

J.J. Merrick

edit: At least Garth on the ACMA’s didn’t plug his guitar in. That way they didn’t have to worry about strapping a wireless pack to him.. saves time and money!

Happy St. Patty’s day. May the luck of the Irish bless you all year long.

So many wonderful memories of StPD… Guess it comes from playing in an Irish named but not Irish cover band. We always had a great gig on 3/17 since everyone wanted The Tom Foolery Band on their flyers.

And here is a funny…

Mariah Carey’s new video for Touch My Body just dropped and it is hilarious!

I want to be the guy who pitched this treatment… “Ok so Geek Squad shows up at her door and then there is a unicorn and guitar hero… and then it ends with Mariah saying ‘802.11n’” Hot!

Funny funny stuff…