rebeldogg

Everybody wants to know
Why I sing the blues
Yes, I say everybody wanna know
Why I sing the blues
Well, I've been around a long time
I really have paid my dues

When I first got the blues
They brought me over on a ship
Men were standing over me
And a lot more with a whip
And everybody wanna know
Why I sing the blues
Well, I've been around a long time
Mm, I've really paid my dues

I've laid in a ghetto flat
Cold and numb
I heard the rats tell the bedbugs
To give the roaches some
Everybody wanna know
Why I'm singing the blues
Yes, I've been around a long time
People, I've paid my dues

I stood in line
Down at the county hall
I heard a man say, "we're gonna build
Some new apartments for y'all"
And everybody wanna know
Yes, they wanna know
Why I'm singing the blues
Yes, I've been around a long, long time
Yes, I've really, really paid my dues

Now I'm gonna play Lucille.

My kid's gonna grow up
Gonna grow up to be a fool
'cause they ain't got no more room
No more room for him in school
And everybody wanna know
Everybody wanna know
Why I'm singing the blues
I say I've been around a long time
Yes, I've really paid some dues

Yeah, you know the company told me
Guess you're born to lose
Everybody around me, people
It seems like everybody got the blues
But I had 'em a long time
I've really, really paid my dues
You know I ain't ashamed of it, people
I just love to sing my blues

I walk through the cities, people
On my bare feet
I had a fill of catfish and chitterlings
Up in Downbill Street
You know i'm singing the blues
Yes, I really
I just have to sing my blues
I've been around a long time
People, I've really, really paid my dues

Now father time is catching up with me
Gone is my youth
I look in the mirror everyday
And let it tell me the truth
I'm singing the blues
Mm, i just have to sing the blues
I've been around a long time
Yes, yes, I've really paid some dues

Yeah, they told me everything
Would be better out in the country
Everything was fine
I caught me a bus uptown, baby
And every people, all the people
Got the same trouble as mine
I got the blues, huh huh
I say I've been around a long time
I've really paid some dues

One more time, fellows!

Blind man on the corner
Begging for a dime
The rollers come and caught him
And throw him in the jail for a crime
I got the blues
Mm, I'm singing my blues
I've been around a long time
Mm, I've really paid some dues

Can we do just one more?

Oh I thought I'd go down to the welfare
To get myself some grits and stuff
But a lady stand up and she said
"You haven't been around long enough"
That's why I got the blues
Mm, the blues
I say, I've been around a long time
I've really, really paid my dues

Fellows, tell them one more time.

Ha, ha, ha. that's all right, fellows.
Yeah!

- B. B. King -- "Why I Sing The Blues"

Okay. So I finally got my guitars and I ain't had to kill not a one motherfucker.

But I sure as hell should'a slapped a bitch. My coffin case has a big dent in it. I guess they squeezed it in between some shit, or maybe put something heavy on top of it, and the it pushed down on my bridge (Floyd Rose(ish)) and popped two strings. Good thing I brought a pack up with me, but it's not my normal strings. I just hope I like them, 'cause I'll probably be stuck with them for a while.

Here's the really shitty news: My favorite little combo amp, which is one of the few things that I kept, for some reason doesn't power up. I checked it out real quick with SexyBeast and a multimeter, and it I think I know what the problem is. I need to take it to get fixed, which sucks because I've only got $150 to my name right now. It'll cost me $40 just to get the guy to look at it. I just hope it's an easy fix. Best case scenario is dirty contacts. There's some green crap on the board that I don't recognize, but it could be part of my problem. It's probably the damn part that I think it is, though.

I can't really blame UPS for this one, although they did handle it really rough, as evidenced by the f'ed up box and the fact the there were fuck ups on my amp as well...

I think it probably was the fault of this guy I lent my amp and wah-wah to back home. He was this old blues cat that I used to jam with. He used to pull these gigs on Bourbon, but he lost all of his equipment in Katrina. Fuck him. It took me forever to get my shit back, and I can't remember if I ever tested out the amp after I got it back from him... So it could have been from that.

It's a really sweet sounding little amp, though. They don't make 'em like this anymore.

Anyway, so I'll probably restring my Warlock some time today and get back into practicing. I'm so goddamn rusty... I'd feel like a douche if I had to play in front of anybody right now. Ah... gimmie a week.