Bobby and I just went out for brunch where he spent the majority of the time doing anything but having a conversation with me. Because our father-daughter relationship is awkward at best, there was that weird reaching-for-the-wallet experience—I was too early on the draw and ended up paying the bill!
Getting stories out of Bobby is impossible, which sucks because the man has truly lived. He’s played with Nancy Sinatra, Herbie Hancock, Jaco Pastorius, The Who—he’s a pro drummer (which, in essence, is why he was an absent father) and he has some real-life experience that so far I’ve only learned about through Google. But I want to hear about his life as a musician in his own words, and this episode is about trying to make that happen.
Gum is a big issue between us and we’re going to try to get to the bottom of it. We’re also talking about Bobby’s addictions and his messy trait that I definitely inherited. He ends up sharing some insights into his experience with alcoholism but refuses to share some of his juicer stories. So, I decide to try sharing some of my own experiences to get him to open up.
This is the issue with having a distant dad, I’m itching to know what his life was like. He was an absent father who got a chance to have a life of his own and experience these secrets that I don’t know about him. One of the best ways for him to learn how to be a dad is to open up, it’s a chance for me to understand what parts of me come from him.
I did manage to pull a few stories out of him though so here for your listening pleasure is how a lobster ended up in Bobby’s symbol bag and a few other gems.
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