It's nice to always take a step back and take a good look at things. Especially, when at the time, it wasn't the greatest feelings. Last night's gig was one of those nights.
I arrived first to the gig with 2xbass in-tow and started to get ready. I made a quick call to just check in to see where my band mates were. It turns out they got caught in traffic behind a major car accident. Anyway, the chances of them arriving on-time were pretty slim. I was going to be left me on my own for a good chunk of time in front of a large number of people with not much solo bass repertoire under my hat. I'm normally the support in a musical stand-point, not a virtuoso soloist. Needless to say, I felt like a fish out of water and was wating for some sign of relief. I basically went into a number of songs withnot much direction (and not much reactio if I may add).
Anyway, one the rest of the group arrived, we got set-up very quickly and jumped right into our first tunes and played staight in just under two hours.
Once we got into playing, everything sounded great and the audience really enjoyed our show which was our main goal in the first place.
Lesson learned: try to prepare for anything. Time to work on some solo repertoire.
