my first show (in my dreams)
I had a dream lastnight that we were opening for some huge band! But it was in a high school auditorium of some kind, and a ton of people I went to high school with were there. ha!So we're all excited, but I start to realize we've TOTALLY forgotten to practice! WOOPS! I know the song we're going to play, but I sure has hell have no idea what the drums are like in it... ! We get on the stage and start setting up and I realize that the drum set they provided isn't actually a drum set. It's like an old wood credenza and some other boxes around it. uuhhh... how is this supposed to sound like the drums!?!?! Let alone if we do get it to sound like the drum parts, how the heck am I going to play them!?!?!?
Jem & Tania were my bandmates, and I can't really remember what Tania was playing, but I was confident if anyone was going to get us through this it was Jem wielding her hott turquoise strat.
At some point through trying to set up, a guy was up there trying to help me. We were looking for the plug or something to make this puppy sound like something different than hitting wood on wood (which actually wasn't even producing a high tick sound at ALL, it was more like I was hitting cardboard and I was stressin!!). So this guy looked familiar to me... and I'm talking to him about it all and trying to remember how I know him. He had changed his hair.... was it Sebastian from DFA1979? John Vanderslice? (I know, they look nothing alike) - either way, I liked that somehow I felt like I was on the same playing field as them.... sorta. Uh... except for the fact that I notice they're setting up their kit behind us, and I think ooh, maybe I could use theirs! And then realize I couldn't even use it for my set because it was so crazy... it was like a drum kit out of the future.... double decker and shit. I was *in* for it!!!
SO - we basically decided to just go with it and hopefully nobody would notice. (HA!) I think we played one song, and throughout it I did my best to thump, knowing it was only a level *I* could hear over the awesome riffs Jem was playing. I remember feeling sad, like my first big chance on stage and all I had was this dumb ol' drum set to play that didn't even work. hmph.
After our first song, apparently we had put together some kind of multimedia movie experience.. and Tania got up on the mic and started reading something off a piece of paper, and I had to whisper to her to talk louder. I still don't think she talked loud enough - and something was even off on our movie thing, so I had that sinking feeling that our whole opening act sucked.
At the end we all rolled it off, like "eh, we tried!" feeling the odds were against us in more ways the one, and it was just the beginning.
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Jem is *really* playing a show, and considering she is an incredible guitar player, even in my dreams - it's going to be great! Her & Jas are Jean-Marie and they're opening a show at the Brain Wash Cafe on Friday April 22nd! woohoooo!! I can't wait!
