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This Ain’t No Stinkin’ Gig Report
Saturday night, I played a gig at Bohemeo’s with Collective Hallucination. I had a blast. That’s the punch line to a pretty long story that I will hopefully keep short for now.
On Tuesday, I had an incident at rehearsal that put me in a bad state of mind. Wednesday I worked on the problem, but didn’t enjoy it. Thursday I hung out with a friend who is a former piano teacher of mine, and some things we discussed and some things that happened like when I went to play for him made me start to become more aware of a bigger problem. That night and the next day, conversations with Lori made me realize what the bigger problem was and the extent of it. Frankly, I was overwhelmed by it.
Saturday I was still going back and forth about how I felt. I knew I could pull off the gig, at least for the most part, but my heart wasn’t in it. I pulled out Meditation #1 from Kenny Werner’s Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within
Our gig ended early enough that we had time to go home, unload, and then head over to Dan Electro’s Guitar Bar to see our friends The Distracted as well as other friends who were there for the show.
What was looking like it was going to be a “meh” night turned out to be a great one.
I know you’re wondering what “the problem” is. I wrote a blog post about it, but pulled it because it was no longer reflective of how I felt. That’s the funny thing about blogging. If I write too much in the heat of the moment, then I’m stuck with posts that are a bit of a blip and not as much me. I plan to write a post about “the problem” once I get a handle on what I want to say about it.
Posted 2011 07 10 at 10:25 AM
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