Soul Singing

It's been a while since the last update. I'm sorry about that. The holiday break was a little nutty, and I did very little practicing nor much productive stuff to talk about.

Obviously I felt the gig with Collective Hallucination was overall, a success. Like I said in a previous post, when I'm feeling confident or good about something, I tend to talk about it less and let what I do speak for itself. That was definitely the case with that show.

The week after the CH gig, we had our first Blue Funk jam in a long time. It was definitely the first with all five members in quite a while. It's funny, a couple of members felt like it was really rough at the time, but when they listened to the recordings, they thought it wasn't so bad after all. I always record every jam, and this is one of the reasons why. Sometimes, your perspective while you are inside of it is different from it would be from the outside. One important thing to learn is that just because a performance doesn't feel right to you doesn't mean it came across badly to the audience. Why there is such a disparity, I can't say. Perhaps we get caught up in our own foibles and lose perspective on everything we are doing right. Or it could be that we are often better at this than we think we are.

Anyway, I thought the jam went well. I felt I was even more adventurous in my playing, which is something I was hoping for after the CH gig. Jeff was playing some stellar solos, doing things I had never heard (or maybe simply noticed? If so, sorry, Jeff!) him do before. We are having another jam tomorrow, and we will have a special guest. However, Jeff may not be able to make it because he and Connie are sick, and unless both of them get better, it's unlikely he will be able to make it. I'm bummed about that, and I know he is too. Such is life. I'm really hoping to get Blue Funk on track again so we can start playing out. Nothing major, just start with some blues jams and such, and see if we can work our way into some opening slots or smaller clubs.

I got a text message from Ant, the leader of CH, on Monday that said, "don't forget rehearsals resume tomorrow! See u at 7!" I replied, "did you mean me too?" and he replied, "yes." Turns out, the gig he told me about last week that may need keyboards does. But, I could not make rehearsals Tuesday nor tomorrow, and the gig is on January 17th. I will only able to play with them at one rehearsal, next Tuesday, unless he squeezes in any more before the show. But here is the funny part. I'm not worried about it. It could be because I've been sick all week and my head is not all here, but I don't think that is it. The show is nine songs, but I'm just not concerned at this point. I told Lori this, and she said, "I swear, you are so manic depressive!" 😊

Posted 2009 01 09 at 2:29 PM

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