My friends does not talk about the fact that I play just "for no reason" (luckily),
but if there is a guitar present, someone saying something about
a guitar, a guitar on TV, someone who's had a dream about a
guitar or whatever it might be, I'm always mentioned.
"Hey Marcus, you play guitar right?"
"Yes, I've known you for 10 years and I've played guitar all those 10
years and you know that very well"
"Oh right hey this guy's name is John, he plays guitar too. Who is the
best of you two? Battle battle battle!!"
"...."
Or if there's a guitar somewhere in a 5 mile radius, thats when things
start to get uncomfortable. Same guy as in the example above:
"Hey Marcus, you play guitar right?"
".....yea...."
"Allright! Come on, play this, and then that and then this!!!!"
It's ok as long as he is the only one prompting that I should play,
but after a while, this person has recruited a fleet of persuaders
who has now turned of the music and declared:
"Hey everybody shut up, Marcus is gonna play guitar!!!"
nnnnnnnggggggaaaaa!! I never said yes, and I never will!
So now I have 50 people expecting me to stand in the middle of
the room playing 10 rap-metal-songs I've never heard of on a guitar
with 2 strings whilst being under severe influence of alcohol.
That is just... ...not fun.
If I'm with a friend or two and they ask me
"hey can't you play something nice on the guitar?";
Sure, I'd love to. But by god, if I'm drunk and sitting at a table talking
to someone the last thing I want is for someone to state that I'm going
play all these cool songs when I've already said no a 100 times.
I know how you feel.
