To Gig or Not To Gig

I "lost" the gig that I wasn't really worried about. It seems the singer for that gig brought a keyboard player from her church. I can't say I'm not disappointed, as I was looking forward to the challenge. However, at the time I found this out yesterday, I still had not received any of the songs, and that was getting annoying with the show and rehearsals coming up. But now, I know why.

They have asked me to do a gig with them on February 21. The set list includes quite a few songs that we did in the December 20 show, so that will make that one much easier to prepare for. I'm still finalizing details with them about it, so it's not 100% I'm going to do it.

I've been fighting a cold since last Tuesday. Yesterday I felt much better but today I have yet another new symptom or two. This doesn't have anything to do with music except that the run down feeling along with being pissed that it's still here is affecting my ability to work on music stuff.

We had a Blue Funk jam on Saturday. Jeff was sick, but John came, so we still had a guitar player. He's interested in playing with us at future jams as well as out, so we will see what happens. It will be interesting finding musical space when the three J's (Jeff, John, and Joe) are all playing. We will all have to make an effort to listen to each other and not step on each other's toes. For instance, I've become used to filling a certain musical space when playing with Jeff. John tends to fill some of those spaces himself. That's cool, but we may have to make a conscious effort to not both do it at the same time. The three of us will also have to keep an eye out for who is soloing or arrange that ahead of time.

Posted 2009 01 12 at 10:14 AM

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