just a note about the pictures
sorry some pics are not so clear,and the pic with the hotels in the background was taken at pattaya
beach thailand. i have room at the frog shack ,sometimes at night i can hear the ocean from my bed. i have been in cambodia for about nine weeks now and have made some great friends. going back to when i first came to ochheuteal beach sihanoukville cambodia i was walking down the beach and i saw an old rusty stringed guitar hanging on a wall at a bar. i asked if i could play a song,there was about 7 or 8 people there. they said yes if you can tune it your wellcome to play it. so i played one of the few songs i remembered (its only love) a beatle song. well they all clapped and said that was good what bar do you play at? i said i just got here i never even thought about playing in a bar. it turns out that there are maybe over a hundred beach bars in cambodia and no live entertainment.noneat all! many people, backpackers mostly pass thru but no one really stays very long. so a few days later i was telling people at some bar about the rusty gutiar and thats when i met peter. peter said he has 2 good guitars and he owns a bar, lets go there now if your any good and you want to stay i want you to play at my bar (frog shack) about 2 or 3 nights a week. well we hit it off great right right from the start. he bought me a cd player and burned about 60 songs and asked if i could learn enough to play a set in 2 weeks for a big party he had planned. so everyday i would learn a song or 2 and and every night i would go to the frog and play for him what i learned. so it was time for the party and i had about an hour of songs to play on stage by myself. kinda scary up there just me and a guitar trying to be an entertainer. i did pull it off, people liked me and peter was very happy. well that was his going away party, he went back home to sweden.well after he left things changed, i was getting free food, beer,money, and a room to play 2 nights a week.but when peter left he put a real asshole in charge of his bar who doesnt like me so that was the end of that....then i met richie who owns a bar called retox up on victory beach. that will be my next story.
beach thailand. i have room at the frog shack ,sometimes at night i can hear the ocean from my bed. i have been in cambodia for about nine weeks now and have made some great friends. going back to when i first came to ochheuteal beach sihanoukville cambodia i was walking down the beach and i saw an old rusty stringed guitar hanging on a wall at a bar. i asked if i could play a song,there was about 7 or 8 people there. they said yes if you can tune it your wellcome to play it. so i played one of the few songs i remembered (its only love) a beatle song. well they all clapped and said that was good what bar do you play at? i said i just got here i never even thought about playing in a bar. it turns out that there are maybe over a hundred beach bars in cambodia and no live entertainment.noneat all! many people, backpackers mostly pass thru but no one really stays very long. so a few days later i was telling people at some bar about the rusty gutiar and thats when i met peter. peter said he has 2 good guitars and he owns a bar, lets go there now if your any good and you want to stay i want you to play at my bar (frog shack) about 2 or 3 nights a week. well we hit it off great right right from the start. he bought me a cd player and burned about 60 songs and asked if i could learn enough to play a set in 2 weeks for a big party he had planned. so everyday i would learn a song or 2 and and every night i would go to the frog and play for him what i learned. so it was time for the party and i had about an hour of songs to play on stage by myself. kinda scary up there just me and a guitar trying to be an entertainer. i did pull it off, people liked me and peter was very happy. well that was his going away party, he went back home to sweden.well after he left things changed, i was getting free food, beer,money, and a room to play 2 nights a week.but when peter left he put a real asshole in charge of his bar who doesnt like me so that was the end of that....then i met richie who owns a bar called retox up on victory beach. that will be my next story.
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