Friday, April 11, 2008

Magic Guitar Blind Willy Miller

Everyone in the band would like to thank Chuck for having us play at Trails Bar and Grill, last Saturday night. Also, I would like to apologize to everyone for slacking in my blogging duties, and not posting that gig ahead of time. [Bad O.P.!] However, if you were there at the right time that night, you may have seen Orzo playing slide guitar with his pocketknife. Not an easy feat. This is not the first time this has occurred. It seems that about 3 out of 4 times, he forgets his slide and has to use the pocketknife. In fact, I'm beginning to think that it actually sounds better using the knife instead of the glass slide. [or glass finger as he likes to call it] It reminds me of those old blues guys who used to use the necks from wine bottles and the like to play slide. You know the kind of guys I'm talking about. They have all those cool names like Blind Lemon Jefferson, Watermelon Slim, Johnny "Guitar" Watson, and Magic this and Lightnin' that. I think that when Orzo does his pocketknife slide thing, he should maybe have a cool nickname also. Maybe something like Magic Guitar Blind Willy Miller! Or maybe not. - O.P.