TJH3113's video: Reminiscing Bass Cover

So, I quit my job at the Food Bank. To say that it was a horrible place to work would be an understatement. Don't get me wrong, there were a handful of outstanding people I worked with who were really cool, but the overall environment was utterly toxic. And this fish stunk from the head down. I had a number of major issues with the place, but the worst thing for me was the waste of perfectly good food that was meant to go to people who needed it most. Because it was so poorly run, many thousands of pounds of food went directly to the dump, only because there was no place left to store it in the warehouse. Let me put it this way, the fees they paid to the dump for the food I personally brought there was far greater than what they paid me weekly. Now, multiply that by 5 trucks. I hate to trash talk them (as they do provide an essential service), but I just really hope they get their act together because they could be doing so much more than they currently are. Anyway, I found another job within two days and should be starting shortly, after all the preliminaries are sorted out - driving abstract, background check, drug test, road test... It's in a industry I never thought I'd be in, but I'm willing to try anything at this point. Unlike the food bank, the money is really decent. Out of the blue on Friday, our very good friend who passed away, Mark Parisi's daughter, Rhapsody, sent me a text and then we spoke on the phone. Mark was the singer in the band Crisis and was a very good friend to both Lynn and me for nearly 30 years. Rhapsody inherited all of Mark's guitars and musical equipment. One guitar in particular was very special to her - an older Suziki acoustic that still had a Frankenstein sticker on it that was put there by Rhapsody when she was just a little girl. She kept the guitar out, on a stand and "someone" put a small ding on the top. She wanted my advice on having it repaired. I asked her to send me a photo of it. It wasn't too bad at all and she sent me a photo of two similar dings that had been put there when Mark was alive. It was very superficial, but she was pretty adamant about returning the guitar to its original state. I tried to explain the whole "Mojo" thing to her and even sent a picture of Willie Nelsons main guitar. She wasn't having any of it. I sent the picture, along with a message, to my guy, Joe Kruse, to see what he thought, or, if not him, the fellow who builds acoustics in the shop next door to his. I'm just waiting to hear back from him. I'd quit my job on Wednesday. Interviewed for (and was offered) a new job on Thursday. And had another interview on Friday (I'd already scheduled it and went to have it a back up, just in case). The interview was horrible. When I left, I just put "Home" into Google Maps to see what the quickest way home was, as there were a number of different routes I could have taken. It took me on some backroads that I'd never been on before and, before I knew it, I was driving past the house where Mark had lived and died in. It's sort of in the middle on nowhere, surrounded by woods, fields, and farmland and, after all the times I'd been there, I'd never approached it from this direction before. I slowed down, pulled into the driveway, shut off the car, and sat for a few moments... reminiscing. It just struck me as odd that on a day I just happened to be in contact with his daughter, I wound up driving by his home. "Reminiscing" by The Little River Band off of their "Sleep Catcher" album which came out in 1978 and featured the very talented George McArdle on bass. I covered "Lonesome Loser" a while back and enjoyed that one. I may have to sift through their catalog for some more stuff. George happens to have a YouTube channel and there's at least one tutorial on it. Pay him a visit and show him some love - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVHsekGP4abbd2V4YMaqszw I was working on this one last weekend and Lynn said I was dropping F-bombs like a drunken sailor. While it may not be the most difficult song, it has a ton of anticipatory ghost-notes and it was a chore putting them in the right sequence. Played on a $199 Ibanez Talman TMB100 through a SansAmp Bass Driver Ver. 2. I recently got this bass back from Joe. He replaced the tuners with a set of Hipshots and replaced the string tree as well (the strings were getting caught up in the stock tree). Those were the only two minor issues that I had with the bass. I recorded this video last weekend. The reason I mention that is because I received a couple of comments where people have suggested that I am aging in reverse. I think this is because I sometimes upload videos that I've had sitting around for a few years. So, anyway, this is how I currently look.