I thought I had heard all of the archetypal band stories, Eddie... but that one is new to me! I'm impressed that you figured it out!

A fairly recent story from summer 2016:
I was playing a private party in somebody's back yard after a couple days of heavy rain. The place where they wanted me to set up was all mud, a couple of inches deep. My rock and roller cart that I use to move gear from my car to the stage was useless. The ground was not level, so my speaker stands were precariously balanced and kept trying to tip over.

The post-rain sun was really bright, and I'm using a laptop to deliver my sound to the PA... but no matter how I positioned myself to the computers screen, I couldn't see ANYTHING. They had a cabana set up, but they wouldn't let me set up under it because it was for the guests. Nobody used the cabana the whole time I played.

The hardest part of doing a one man show is wearing all the hats at the same time. It takes practice, but eventually you can learn to play, sing, troubleshoot technical problems, adjust sound levels with quick hand moves between the instrument and the PA etc etc. Why people think its a good idea to strike up a conversation with me in the middle of a song is completely baffling, yet it seems to happen more often than not.

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