I agree Mark. I get up for a gig and I would have said to her You bet Baby, It's...SHOWTIME.

I'm like the old time comic who said he's such a ham that when he opens his refigerator door and the light comes on, he'll do twenty minutes in front of a dead chicken. That's me, it's all about the roar of the gresepaint and the smell of the crowd.

As for rehearsals, they're great for getting the basics of a song together but I'm a terrible rehearsal keyboardist. I'm not into it but yes I'll learn the songs. It's like a vid I found years ago about Paul Shaffer doing a tribute to Jimmy Smith's The Cat using three monster B3 players plus himself. Great vid, great music but he also released the rehearsal vid which was interesting. They went through the tune and learned the cues but the whole point of the show was these organists including Paul ripping a solo. Joey D didn't even show up and Dr Lonnie Smith literally was just going through the motions, his rehearsal solo sucked, but the show itself? He killed it.

For me if you can't get excited about performing in front of a crowd you're in the wrong business and I've been doing it since 1964.

Bob

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