Life is good.
McCabe's Guitar Shop is a wonderful little place in Santa Monica, California, one of the happiest places I've ever been. Everyone in there is always happy. Coffeepots quietly brew on the counter in front of the instrument repair bench, and there are usually oodles of people just sitting around playing, be there store employees or the students who take classes there. If not that, they've always got great music playing on the stereo. In the back is the little concert hall, with a seating capacity about 150, where over the past 10 years I've seen some of the best musical performances of my life.