About Me
Well, my name is Shane Soloski, and I was a smart kid, I probably could have been a Dr. or a lawyer if I wanted to. In fact, I was so smart, I decided to play bass guitar instead. In my opinion sucess in this field was a far loftier goal to aspire to, I mean why would any gorgeous girl want to date a guy just cause he had money?
This is why despite having 65,148 friends on myspace at last count, Sir Paul McCartney will never be my internet friend. In my humble opinion, it is all his fault, and I don't think my mother will ever forgive him. While most losers with day jobs thank him for being the reason they play, upon meeting him I will say, " I'm sure you have heard this a million times, but you are the whole reason I am a musician. Thanks alot man, I could have been a doctor or a lawyer or something!" At that point I will suggest we have a beer together, insisting that it would be the least he could do to buy the first round. More than likely, I will insist on the second and third as well.
When I've finally got him a little relaxed on the hops, I will hit him with a kharma check he never saw coming. Sure he got to play with The Beatles, and Wings, good for him, I'm really psyched. Cause I'm the one who got to play with Five For Fighting, Billie Meyers, Marty LLoyd (former lead singer of The Freddy Jone's Band," and a bunch of amazing bands no one has ever heard of. And I will remind him that even though his old band practically invented the rock music video, I got stuck over on the country channel CMT with Faith Hill and Tim McGraw in the video they did for the song "Like We Never Loved Before."
I'll even let him know we've played with alot of the same people, and that we have some mutual aquaintances. Undoubtably, he'll wonder how it is we never met, and suggest that we should hang out some time. At that point, I will remind him that we can't because he has always been my arch musical nemisis and say, "straight up dude, my mom would not approve, she hates you!"
I only hope for his own sake that in his drunken stupor he doesn't get a peanut shell lodged half way down his trachea. Because if he wasn't a Beatle I'd probably know the Heimlich maneuver.
AM/FM-live! "Band On The Run"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGSsfoUUoO0
