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| My Life practice rig! |
This past Wednesday, we (
Yacht Rock/
Please Pleaserock Me) had a big rehearsal--5 Beatles tunes (
I Want to Hold Your Hand, Back in the USSR, Ob-La-Di- Ob-La-Da, Taxman, and
Revolution) and 2 Yacht Rock tunes (
My Life by Billy Joel and
Thunder Island by Jay Ferguson). The Beatles stuff was easy--I make charts and play them, plus it's lots of tambourine and clapping. I was really pumped about playing
My Life--not only is it a big song for me personally, but once I started listening to it, it sounded like piano PLUS rhodes (and synth on the main riff). So…Bencuya plays piano, but I double him on the rhodes, which turned out to be a terrific challenge. I have to BE Bencuya for a couple of minutes there.
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| Pete's facial castanets for Thunder Island |
Anyway, I practiced it like crazy. We played a couple of times at rehearsal. I was fine.
We weren't going to play it last night at the 10 High gig because
Mark Cobb was not there, but
Ganesh said he wanted a shot at it, so we did do it. Awesome. I did well. Plus, it went over really well--everybody was singing along (which is always a cool feeling). We probably got two keepers out of that (
Thunder Island was good too, but I just play organ pads, so it was no biggie).
Speaking of the 10 High…the first set was good and inspired, and then we came back from break and not one of us could have given a damn. It was a pretty boring second set. I sucked on the sax solo to Caribbean Queen. Such is life. I wore my new suit, so at least I looked good doing it.
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