The name Captain Funnybone actually originates from my CB radio "handle" Funnybone, which was my call sign for many years, back in the days when many homesteading people in the hills of Arkansas did not have the luxury of a telephone. My rank of Captain is not designated in any kind of military hierarchy, but rather because I am the skipper of a 17 ft. Grumman, lake-going canoe. [joke]

In addition, I have a goofy habit of laughing when I make an error in my playing. I record by myself, so an error is of little consequence. ..just a pain in the butt to edit out. I am always trying to find new tunes--but if I have to stop and set up the recording equipment, after I stumble on to some new little ditty, I lose the thread, and I am seldom able to pick up where I left off. ..and the new music is gone for ever, along with the good mood that came with it!!!   Also, I find that if I record everything I play, then I always try really hard to make it sound good. ..try is the key word, here. ..but there is usually quite a bit of laughter in between. ..much to my chagrin.

I find making music particularly challenging. I have made my living building and fixing things, in this material world, and in so-doing, I sometimes get the idea that I can do most anything I want. ..until I pick up a musical instrument. Then I find out just how clumsy and mindless I can be. I would actually rather not make any errors, but even after playing a guitar pretty steadily since 1991 or so, I still am not familiar enough with the instrument, so as to anticipate exactly what note a string, two or three over and up a fret, is going to sound like, all the time. Mozart, I'm not. But making music is much more fun than just listening to some other bozo sing about his life.   So that is what I do.   I make for a small band, but at least we don't argue about what to play next.

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