If Thursday I felt crappy about my playing, Friday I was on fire. As I promised myself I’d make up for that really lousy gig. I had two opportunities Friday night, and I capitalized on both.

My first gig was with 7Foot Jr. That’s my other band. We rarely gig (we’re mostly a recording band) so live performances are always too important. We were playing the Miriam High School Fair. Unfortunately, the only hitch with the gig was that Leo, our vocalist, had the dumb idea to enter a call center. His schedule didn’t permit him to perform that night. Kudos goes to our bassist who stepped up and did all the singing duties. The gig went really fine. If you have the fantasy of having hundreds (I’m guessing) of screaming teeny boppers watching you, well that’s what was happening. That only fueled us to rock better. My playing isn’t what I would say my usual style but it was fun. It was rocking. Seven songs went by really fast. That gave me the warm up that I needed for the next act.

Dash to Capone’s. I got scolded by a lot of friends for being late. I did ask permission from the rest of the band. Oh well. I did a quick setup and went straight to the set (sans dinner). Man I loved it. I was nailing everything I wanted to do. Too bad Jay wasn’t feeling the same. He was totally collapsing (performance wise) on stage. Probably feeling what I did the night before. The second set went much smoother. Rico Blanco jammed with us. We did a really good “Last Goodbye”. Jay finally got his act together and we rocked. That was also a kind of “despidida” for Debbie. I’m happy that they decided to celebrate it there. We ended pretty late. I ended up leaving with Sherwin. Man that was fun.

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