Goya Guitar

Yeah, it’s been a while. I needed a little time off to recharge the batteries as I usually do this time of year. This site always slows down about now anyway, perhaps because of the sunshine, or the fact that due to summer vacation, there are more children underfoot, or that people prefer being outside or watching reruns on TV or just getting away from the great world wide web to clean their senses and wash their souls clean.

Besides, I haven’t had much I’ve felt like sharing these past few weeks anyway. Sweetie and I have been dealing with a lot of death and dying, struggling to catch our breath in the sea of stress we are currently finding ourselves in.

Somehow it feels like to write about it, trivializes it to some degree, and to ignore it makes the events of the past few weeks seem like a dream or untrue. And so what I wind up doing is a lot of writing and not much posting. Before I realize what’s happened, a whole month has passed without an update to the site and so here I sit at the Wednesday truck stop with a few moments to spare before heading back to the mobile home to take Ike to the grocery store, hoping that I can spit out enough sentences to make an update worthwhile.

If they’re all as long as that last one, this could take a while.

My trip to Vegas is still looming in the distance, though not as far and abstract as it once was. I’ve had a busy month performing, with two shows down and two more to go by the end of the month. I’ve got three quarters of the band with me next Thursday night at The Swiss Tavern and that will be the first time I’ve played there with musicians backing me up. I’ve also booked a show on the 28th at this here truck stop, if just for a change of venue.

The woman that cares for Ike during the day has brought over her uncles twelve string Goya guitar because he’s interested in selling it. Goya was made in Sweden, with bracing similar to the Martin. This guitar seems to have been built in the early 60’s, and while it sounds nice and bright, the action on the neck is pretty high. I might take it in just to see if that can be fixed. If I could get the neck straightened and get the price down a little bit, I think it would be nice to add another guitar to my collection. The sound of a twelve string guitar always reminds me of 70’s rock ballads, but that sound is unique and I would be fun to pick up now and again.