{"id":81,"date":"2006-02-19T19:47:21","date_gmt":"2006-02-20T00:47:21","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-02-19T19:47:21","modified_gmt":"2006-02-20T00:47:21","slug":"i_even_wrote_for_jay_leno_one_time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/i_even_wrote_for_jay_leno_one_time\/","title":{"rendered":"I Even Wrote for Jay Leno One Time…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Starting to write a song is sometimes as easy as taking a cliche and twisting a word or two. (Of course, starting<\/i> a song is easy. Finishing<\/i> it is another matter, but that’s best left to a future entry.)<\/p>\n

While driving to work a year or two back, a song containing the phrase, “Jack of all trades, master of none” came on the radio. Seemed a little trite to me, and then I thought, “Jack of all trades…geez…I wish I could just MASTER one”.<\/p>\n

Then I took out my notebook. <\/p>\n

I listed some of the things I’ve done over the years to make a living, remembering how I went to college “part-time forever”, and how I stressed over what I would do for a living. In my twenties, it seemed like an eternity. Twenty years later, I don’t care that much anymore. I just want to write and do whatever it takes in the meantime to pay the bills. <\/p>\n

One interesting thing I do have under my belt was being a freelance “stringer” for Jay Leno back in the late 80s. <\/p>\n

My song Jack of All Trades includes the line “I even wrote for Jay Leno one time”. (It was more than “one time”, but this worked out as a better rhyme.) Every week I’d fax in a page of jokes. Over the course of a year or two, four jokes made it onto the air. I dug through the archives (my desk) yesterday, and found a “cassette tape” (remember those?) containing the audio from two of the bits that made it onto the air:<\/p>\n