OK.. So my first gig with HaleAmanO.
It went pretty good I'd say. Small coffee shop setting. Crowd of about 20 people. Real fun intimate setting.
I only actually knew 5 songs. We played 10. So I had to wing it for 5. And all I really knew how to do was chillin' leads for them. Used the wah, background scale phrasing. It really did add a cool dimension to the songs even though I'd never heard the songs before. I was a real trip improvising like that, but according to the band, and the small crowd, " you were sick man, you tore it up!"
I've had "2" practices with this band. I just met them 2-weeks ago. Never played Reggae before, and now we have a gig at the Canyon Club at the Four Queens Hotel and Casino THIS FRIDAY!!
To put that in perspective.. The Canyon Club is like playing the House of Blues, or The Joint at the Hard Rock. I feel completely unprepared for it. But the band isn't worried about it at all. They're just like, "just do what you do man, you're sick, just have fun".... I LOVE THIS BAND!!!
Never in my life have I been in a band who just laughs off their mistakes. "Dude I f**k up all the time, we just laugh it off, and on to the next song." Or, "dude, sometimes I don't know what the hell is going on either, I just go with the flow and it just seems to work out somehow. No big deal. None of us care or worry about it, we just laugh. You'll be fine man, don't worry about it."
EVERY band I've ever been in, we've been extremely tight in knowing every part and performing it with precision. One little minuscule, millisecond off on something, and someone was riding you ass. And it always seemed to create a negativity. Worried about f**king up. Trying to perfect everything or you were gonna hear it from somebody. Then the finger-pointing would start. "This guy f**k up all the time! I'm sick of it!"
This band just doesn't seem to operate that way. It's foreign to me. But I'd have to say, the only pressure I feel, is the pressure I put on myself.
I've told myself more than once today," you know you're not prepared for this show". But the rest of the band is really excited to have me playing it. I just got a list of 5 songs 30-minutes ago that we'll be playing on Friday, and the only time I've ever heard them, was last Sunday when I was winging it!! I don't even know what the chords are!! And I'm going to be playing these in front of a packed house at the Canyon Club????
YOU BET YOUR ASS I AM!!!! Hahaha!!
I'm in the greatest band ever!! HaleAmano f**king rules!
Likin' the tunes... definitely a different way of playing! Congrats and best of luck to ya... BTW Which one is you in the advert pic?? cause none of them look like you in your profile??
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