We set up and fiddled through stuff at soundcheck. I was kind of poking at things I could sort of play and aggravating the growing knot in my shoulder. Once we got going on the gig, I quickly settled in, though. I was actually playing pretty well! There were flubs and stuff I forgot, but I was pretty even keeled about it. The only disaster was Maniac, and that was only because I didn't move well from section to section in the song. On break, I felt kind of relieved.
The second set was not so hot. We began with the Top Gun Theme and moved directly into Danger Zone. I forgot about the sax solo at the end of Danger Zone, but I needed to have thought of it at the beginning of Top Gun--I play two handed stuff all the way through each song. Definitely a problem. Eventually, I just picked a spot to stop playing and grab my horn. From there, we went into I Want a New Drug; my reed was uncooperative. The song after that was True, and I hadn't thought about that song at all, and so that was sloppy as I kind of felt around for the chords I had forgotten. The Heat is On had a couple of errant note the first time through the riff. By the time we got down to the end of the set, I felt like I'd taken the SATs again. I was fried.
Packing up was really slow. I just wanted my brain to relax.
Friday was my only day to gather up my 80s movie character costume. Mission accomplished. I did some desk work things; I did my laundry (no clean underwear). At long last, I plowed through the set list song by song and made sure I had my stuff together. I feel good. I'm poised to kick some ass tomorrow night.
Along the way this week, I cut up the remainder of my trio gig video. You can view everything I recorded on my YouTube channel. Here's a link to the trio gig playlist. Watch and enjoy.
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