I have not been that bored on a Yacht Rock gig in a long time. I could tell early in the night that we were all pretty flat and there would be nothing that could pull us out of it. At that point it became a dreadfully long march through almost two full sets of music.
Musically speaking, I was able to neither achieve nor maintain...!
Increasingly I find it difficult to play with musicians who aren't listening well. I thought last night I would be able to push past it and focus on the people who were, but I couldn't get away from it. There were multiple spots where the soloist would wrap up his solo and most of us could hear it, but we would keep playing. The opposite happened to me, where I was just reaching the top gear on my solo, but the song ended. Am I misreading the signals? I don't know. My feeling was that some of us were just going from point A to point B, and the hell with the in between.
All I know is I can't play when I know it doesn't matter.
Oh well...we survived. Here's hoping for better music next week.
