I Know It’s Not The First Time…

For those of you still with us, this is Day Three of Burn Kate on The Potato Barn. Hope you’re enjoying yourselves. I know I am.

Today’s entry is Suburbia, which features a guitar solo by yours truly that falls short of being awesome because…well, because I was playing it. The solo comes to a climax on a high D note, on the 22nd fret of the high E string. Trouble was, I was playing a Mexican Stratocaster with 21 frets, not 22.

Now, any competent guitarist could’ve bent the note up that extra half step. Alas, I did not. On my tombstone, etched just beneath “Played a show at CBGB,” you’ll find the words “but didn’t nail the solo.”

All right. I’m done playing nerdy critic to myself. This song rocks: