It's late, but I want to capture this while the feeling is still fresh with me.

First off, it didn't go perfectly. But you know what, we recovered well, kept it going, and listening to the recording, it was nowhere near the train wreck we thought it was originally. Our vocalist didn't join us until last night and got lost in the lyrics of "Hard to Handle". In the moment, I thought I may have missed my cue for the first solo. We faked our way through it, though I balled up the solo...though nowhere as bad as I thought. My other concern was how we would end "Long Train Running" since it required a signal from the singer to me, and then from me to the band. That didn't seem to bad in the moment, but sounded worse than the "Hard to Handle" mess up.

The important thing was we just moved on. The audience didn't care, and we still had fun! My improvised solos weren't as good as in practice, but again...the audience didn't care. I know I could do it - I did it the night before. A combination of lack of sleep from being hyped up the night before and adrenaline on stage prevented me from being totally on top of my game. The rhythm though was tight! And we had fun!

Video will come in the next few days...but I wanted to say it went well, even though it wasn't perfect.

As far as nerves go, I wasn't nervous at all surprisingly enough. I worked through all of that the last time. I had fun!!!

As soon as the video is ready, I'll post a link here.

And onto the next chapter...