It never fails. We play gigs so seldom these days that I often forget I'm in a band. But without fail we will get a gig EVERY time we leap forward an hour in the spring... which means I get home at 3am old time... now 4am... and at 6am I'm up for church. Needless to say... I don't feel very chippy this morning.

So you're asking "how did it go?", (actually, that didn't even cross your mind but I'm going to tell you anyway).... not well. Sad, too - because we actually NAILED our sound system so it was top notch, perhaps as good as we've ever tuned it in.... BUT.... since we play so seldom.... yikes, mistakes were rampant.

I was forced into paying attention, not my strong suit, because I never knew where the lead guitar was going, nor the vocalists. They had forgotten lyrics, where to come in, where to start the leads, how to end the songs.... thus I was ad-libbing all night. Couple that with the fact that I was making as many mistakes as the others and, well... you can well imagine the outcome.

We are old now... the band... so what we have lost in skills, memory, we make up for with wisdom. For example: Our rhythm guitar player last night played an entire song in the key of "G" while the rest of us were in "C"..... horrible, you're thinking.. and yes, it was... BUT... we knew before striking the first note that our rhythm guitar player was likely, on that particular song, to do that... thus... before the first note we had turned him down to -1 on the volume scale... nobody heard a single note he played. We are geniuses. - JamesJM