I’m gonna tell you the truth, pretend you’re me and I am you. I swear, I have a good upbringing, I just love playing guitar, I love being a musician, I’ve got dreams like everybody else has dreams and I have this unbelievable thirst above everything else to make those dreams happen. From the detriment of my life I was born to follow where this guitar takes me. Now, I am going to really break it down for you right now, because I don’t know the next time we’re going to be on a stage except for 2 or 3 more shows, it might be a while. Pretend you’re me for a minute, pretend you’ve spent your entire life playing the guitar because it’s the only thing that makes you feel like it’s going to be there tomorrow and love you just as much as today. It’s going to say “I love you” today, and it’s going to say “I love you” tomorrow. It’s not going to treat you like shit tonight and then be nice to you tomorrow and you’re going to be like “Wait a minute, guitar, you treated me like shit tonight and I was ready to be like “Look, you treated me like shit, let’s work it out but now you’re being nice to me.” Because it’s the only thing that was consistant in my entire life so I was like “You know what? I am going to give everything to this” and I am lucky, I had a little bit of talent and I was brought up in a place where I was able to keep making that talent happen. So then I get to a part in my life where it’s all I want to do, and I get good at it fast, and I am so lucky that I have the talent to build into something bigger. So then I see the target and I am just going to aim and shoot. Now when you are me, pretend you’re me again, you’ve got a whole plan in your mind, and you’re going to be like “Love the world over, and they’re going to think you’re awesome, and you’re going to play music,” but then you aim, shoot, and now you gotta walk to the target and see what you got and you realize that the bullseye was over here, and your arrow is way on the other side, and you go, “Shit!” And the world says this guy is a terrible archer. And you say “Well, I am not a terrible archer, I’m a terrible shooter but I really did see the target there, you know, I’m a nice guy, I try to be nice to everbody, I just want to be loved, I wanna love everybody back; How can it all just go all the way over there? Just whoosh!

And then I realize you know screw it because really every archer has to account for wind, right? If you’re a sniper or an archer is you do any long range shooting, you have to account for the breeze. That breeze is not your friends, it’s not your family, it’s what everyone else says when you google search yourself. Because I think, may I say, when it comes to my friends and my family, I do a rather beautiful job of taking care of the people that I love.

Sol let’s review my assets here, I’ve got a band that’s amazing that continues to play through my complete babbling, I’ve got a family that loves me, that I love. I’ve had the same close friends that I’ve had for 10 years. I’ve got a career where you guys show up and let me wear the jersey of the most rival team of all time and still you’re here cheering for me, I am never going to get over that. I get to make another record, I get to go home to an apartment which is absolutely mine because of you guys and I thank you. So yeah, maybe if you google search my name the word douchebag comes up. But that google search isn’t going to take you out to dinner, you can’t ask google search to take care of you when you’re low, you can’t ask google search to come over on a Sunday night when you can’t sleep and you’re wondering if you’re an okay dude and you just need to talk to some else. That’s why, friends, got ‘em! Family, got ‘em! Little bit of money to take care of those friends and family, got ‘em! Crowd, got ‘em! Guitar, got ‘em! The best record I ever wrote in my mind, still in my mind, got it! So really what’s wrong?! My friends thank you for loving me ‘cause nothing is wrong and I am going to carry on the next 18 months of my life without being on stage believing that nothing is wrong! If there is anything that I said that you can relate to, will you please consider that nothing is wrong, it’s all garbage! Go to your friends, your family, your job, your place to sleep and the love you actually get from 1 on 1. Do you hear what I’m saying?! Cause we’ve got dreams, dreams to remember…