Here’s a few clips of me playing for a Coffee House last night. Why didn’t anyone tell me that I move like a robot when I solo? If I were on 30Rock I would be saying, “I-am-a-solo-robot” while playing.
Lost My Mind in All My Trouble
Help
About the Coffee House
This was my first ‘venture’ into the local Christian music scene. I’ve been here about a year and I’ve been meaning to find some musicians to jam with. Then I got busy (read: engaged), and the thought kinda fell to the back burner. That all changed when I met this guy Mark about a month ago.
I met him at an Archdiocesan function (the story of which is too long to explain here). During that meeting, someone was sharing about him and mentioned that he played guitar for a retreat. So afterwards we struck up a conversation and when he found out that I was more of a lead player, he flipped and asked me to play for a gig he had coming up – which ended up being what we played last night.
We only practiced 3 times and never as a band. Going into the gig, we didn’t even have a setlist! Mark is crazy! You can tell in one of the clips too, because after my solo for ‘Lost My Mind’ I had no idea where we were in the song and played some wrong chords. And then I totally missed my cue for when to start the ‘Help’ solo! But since we all play for some kind of Church, we kinda just strung everything together and played off our God-given experience. In the end it was an awesome night, with great energy and positive vibes all around.
To top it off, one of the performers led an impromptu closing worship and some of us who played that night (including myself), got up one by one and formed a rag tag worship band. It was so great to see how the Lord can bring all things into harmony through music. Music really is one of God’s greatest gifts to us!
“When you assemble, each one has a psalm.”
1 Corinthians 14:26“Music is the work of His hand; a product of divinity; a foretaste of the delight that awaits us in heaven.”
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