I have an announcement even though I wasn’t expecting it to go this way, and, am not sure whether to bill the rest of it as “Who wants a little drama with their music”, or, “The return of the “Nashville” TV show - online edition”, but, will just put it out there and see where it goes. The picture is once again something I hadn’t seen before on Lower Broadway. According to their website https://www.trytastytour.com/ you can provide your own beverages and food but once again get to be the center of attention while seeing the sites. Since it includes benches and a table I guess this is for those who have graduated from the party buses and no longer want to twerk at the window to get attention.
The picture was taken from the lobby of The Moxy Hotel Downtown, which apparently is part of the Marriott chain. The announcement comes in because a few weeks ago, out of the blue, they started following me on Instagram. Venues I have filmed at makes sense. This past week since it all started there and after ALL of the videos I have filmed there, following the series of Reckless Bound clips, Redneck Riviera started following me. Couldn’t figure out why a boutique hotel started following “A guy posting random people and places on the internet” unless they wanted some of the “random people” to be from inside the hotel. Along those lines to try and start that process I was there yesterday because Lucas Alexander was performing.
Went down to catch part of his set from 5:00PM-8:00PM since I was going to be down there to catch Jillian and Sunshine anyway (more on that later). Caught his set and several times we had a situation where he needs to work on his communication skills (more on that shortly) because he said “You ready, Phil?” and I get out the phone only as soon as I get it in position, he starts shaking his head from side to side. Finally got a clip, but when I am fairly close to the stage I have to zoom the camera out so when I flip it from landscape to portrait they properly fit the frame. Pulled it back too far so the image quality was grainy, and too much noise from all the people talking, so will have to try again some other time.
Now, we start to venture into drama territory. After the set, he sat down next to me at the bar. We started catching up because we haven’t seen each other in person since the set of clips when Sunshine and he performed at Loser’s. Mentioned previously he messaged me about the fact I wouldn’t see him at Loser’s, especially on stage with Lynagh, anymore. I assumed it was a typical young couple situation where they just broke up. According to him they never were a couple in the first place, and just when they were going to sit down and work on a song together, he mentions to her how he just wanted them to be friends and that was when she became upset and basically “Kicked him to the curb”. I have to take her side on this because I thought they were in a relationship the first time I saw them together at Whiskey Bent and even commented to her about that after Greg Chapman’s and her set. I think that if in her mind they weren’t, she would have corrected me at the time. After he mentioned that and commented about the fact he wanted to try and fix things, next came the request I felt was coming (and now here really comes the drama) because he said to me point blank, “You have to help me fix this”. We still talked for a little bit and I mentioned it would be nice because they work so well together, in the back of my mind I was thinking to myself “Oh, Bloody Hell!” because if I was anything close to a relationship expert my crazy ex-wife wouldn’t be my crazy ex-wife. As I told him I needed to head out, he gave me a hug and thanked me for stopping by and was glad I was there as someone to talk to about all this which was nice and glad I could at least help in that regard.
So here I am as “just some dude” getting dragged into this situation. I feel that since I have followed Leah and her the same amount of time and they each know I post clips of the other (for the record I assume Leah doesn’t care since she still follows Lynagh on Instagram) and haven’t been able to do anything to repair that relationship, not sure exactly how I can help this one.
When I got to Redneck Riviera for Jillian and Sunshine’s set since he has known her a lot longer, sometimes he has been my “Lynagh whisperer”. Got him up to speed about the new follows and after I mentioned The Moxy and the fact I caught Lucas’ set, without a second’s hesitation he said, “Oh shit!”. I have to assume that Lucas thinks Lynagh and I are much closer on a personal level than we are actually are because while I feel like we are friends and she has said so from the stage, it is more of the “run into each other out somewhere and say hi” than “can you meet me somewhere for a drink because I need someone to talk to” situation. Since even through social media the only conversations we have are about 98 percent work related. For example, after I posted the Bon Jovi venue update and used the clip of her performing Billy Idol’s “Dancing With Myself”, she messaged me asking me to send her the link. The only other things are if she posts something I might make a comment (usually humorous) that she may, or may not, respond to. Bring that up because when I went into Lucas’ request and I said to him, “I don’t know how he thinks it is going to work because it is not like she would listen to me”, Sunshine responded with, “She doesn’t even listen to me”. Figure when during a set she asked for requests, I throw $20 in the tip bucket and say, “My request is I want you to have a sit down conversation with Lucas so the two of you can straighten things out” would not go over well. Will have to see how I can dodge the land mines as time goes along and will keep you posted.