That first time out sure is a blast, you can always shrug off a bad performance (if you have one, which it sounds like yours went pretty good) by saying, hey it's our first gig. As far as blanking out, yeah all too often. I play with my best friend/brother-in-law/one of the best guitarists around Atlanta (I'm definitely not up to his standards, but were family ;-) ) and we worked up some of his originals and a couple of trad. tunes with harmonies to the melody lines and all that good stuff and the first night we were going to implement our fancy-ness I blanked on pretty much every one...good thing we're family now...
________________________________ From: Mark Seale <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 9:56:13 AM Subject: Re: Our First Gig Good on ya for getting out there. $7 is $7! I've certainly played for less... As for going stone cold blank, I've been working on Stoney Point and went to a jam session last night. I was all set to pull it and lay it on 'em, couldn't do it. I couldn't get the first note out. Still can't. I guess it needs more work... M On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 8:50 PM, sgarrity <[email protected]> wrote: We did it!! The Stringbenders played our first gig tonight. The local arts outreach program is sponsoring a singer/songwriter festival this weekend and we played out in front of the theater as people arrived for the main concert. I mainly played guitar but I pulled the Kimble oval out for WBB, A Chokin' Farewell, and B'grass Stomp. We had a lot of fun. And made some $$$ too. Let's see, $21 divided by three.....yessir, that's a whole $7 each! We played all instrumental tunes. Some slow, some fast. I've been working on my fancy crosspickin' on guitar and we're doin' a few tunes like that. Still gettin' our set list put together. But tonight we played for about an hour and a half, with no set list, and had no issues coming up with tunes to play. Although I did flub one tune. It's my turn to pick one, so I suggest Soldier's Joy. I go to kick it off on guitar and my mind goes stone cold blank. Can't remember it to save my life!! Soldier's-freakin-Joy, which I've only played 1,789 times, and I can't remember it!! LOL Gotta love live performances. Can't wait to do it again. We had more fun than a two peckered puppy dog! ;-) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
