Bass Department

The Rain In Spain...

...Maybe it falls mainly on the plains, I don't know.... I don't even got my money saved like Jane did... All I know is that I better start practicing my 'palabras', else I'm gonna have trouble finding a place to poop in Spain.... I guess there are nice little pictures on certain doors for us illiterate folks, though. Maybe the real question is how much bad Spanish TV does one man have to watch before he starts to understand the language or go completely insane??

Anyway, for those who don't already know, I'll be taking a short 'vacation' in Europe for a few weeks. A company from Spain that builds wind turbines is opening a new branch here in Ebensburg, PA and need some good 'ol corn-fed boys to run the joint. Word got out of my vast experience in instrument lessons, my genious at playing, my off the wall live performance and my hyper-uber giant fiberglass windmill blade production abilities and they just HAD to have me come across the pond to train in thier ways help them open thier new place near Flood City USA. Well, at first I said 'No' but they insisted they'd pick up the tab on all of everything, so I mulled it over for a while. 'What the hell' I finally thought. Why not, as long as I can make a few extra dollars, or euros or whatever. I think the euro is about 20 cents above the dollar, so I should be able to bring back some nice trinkets for my son. He's been wanting one of those half-scale Spanish Armada playsets with real cannon-fire action so that he can fight the Monitor and Merricmack ships Scott and I built for history class so many moons ago. Fifty to one and a new fleet versus two 18 year old relicks are great odds for him, but I just don't think Garrett yet realizes that youth and cunning isn't enough to overcome age and experince even when the deck is stacked. More likely he's not yet figured out what 'Ironclad' means, I don't know....kids.....

Anyhoo, Justinhale fans fear not because the show will go on even in my absence. You could be fortunate to see the Justinhale show in rare 'Eclectic Acoustic' form or perhaps a new mystery face may keep the electricity flowin'. In the works to fill in for me is my ex-band mate Jay Snyder, an ultra hip cat who some of you may remember as guitar player from 'Buddha's Magic Bike'. Jay has been kind enough to fill in a few gigs for JH on days when he's not playing with his heavy new band, 'Pivot', that is if we can get him to quit hitting on his Beatch to put down the pipe and wake up long enough to play a few notes. Don't worry folks, Jay is a good guy and well capable to do the deed and play the gig. Watch out, though thin skins, 'cause he's quick, rude and sarcastic as hell, but I'm sure you'll just love him anyway.