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i had a fun little adventure with the kiddies on friday… uh… mainly mackenzie i suppose…
first a little background i guess… before i met, fell in love with, married, and started having the chilluns with love-of-my-life karen i lived for a while just down the street from greenlake in seattle… and i used to play in a band called cousin phil with my amigos tom and sarah… i was doing this when karen and i met and one of the coolest things, for me anyway, was when karen would come see us play…
so cousin phil was an acoustic trio… we’d all swap instruments and stuff although i usually played acoustic guitar… we’d all sing… and we were big on audience participation… lotsa folks played percussion with us as the urge struck ‘em, we had guest guitar players a fair bit, and our amigo al used to play harmonica with us quite a lot…
oh yeah, and we were initially called clayton park which at the time we all thought was a rather cool name until a dude actually called clayton park popped up and threatened to pursue legal action against us unless we ceased and desisted using “his name”… after that we didn’t think it was such a cool name any more… hah… so we had a contest at a gig one night and became cousin phil after that…
so flash forward to the present… we had taken mum to work and found ourselves heading home when our normal route was blocked by a morning rush hour stall and the associated morning rush hour traffic… so we took a little detour… and i got to show the boo my old apartment building pre-getting-married… and after we saw that we took the route that i used to take two or three times a week from seattle to kirkland for practices and gigs…
and it was pretty friggin’ cool on a number of levels… i got to drive it again which brought back all sorts of fantastic memories… i got to tell mackenzie about an aspect o’ dad that she hadn’t heard of until then, not in much detail anyway… and we all had a pretty relaxing drive instead of being stuck in traffic for an hour with a bunch of other ticked off drivers…
a fine start to a friday methinks…
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