Week ago Saturday my band was scheduled to play during the break of the After Party for this years Bluesfest.
http://www.greaterozarksbluesfest.com/
It was supposed to be in another location, but rain drove the main stage indoors for and they just had the After Party on the same stage.
Lara Price Band was to open the After Party.
http://www.myspace.com/larapriceband
Anthony Gomes was one of the artist that showed for the jam.
http://www.myspace.com/anthonygomes
Then we were to do a short set then a jam with Lara Price Band and whoever showed from the other artists. We played our set then Lara asked me and the drummer to stay on stage for the jam. I was looking for her bassist to come back. Anthony Gomes gets up there and we have no idea what we are going to do. He kicks into a song that I've heard but just could not pick up the riff of the tune, I sort of froze up. It's not hard at all and I should've been able to catch right on, but took me a couple of progressions before I had the riff down to Goin' Down by Albert King. It's a sinking feeling to have an artist like Anthony Gomes look over at you with "what the f are you doing?" all over his face.
Here is Anthony's normal bass player David Karns:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...endID=44443588
He has more chops than a butcher and just tore it up in their show earlier.
Lara Prices bassist Jack Cannon came back after that song and I was relieved. Jack was super nice and encouraging to me and a great 'in the pocket' bottom line player. I'm taking this as a major motivation to work as hard as I can to improve. My teacher says the only way to improve on situations like that is to get into more situations like that. So embarrassment be damned that's what I will try to do.
Here is Anthony Gomes giving me the look:
Here is me biting my lower lip off as I freak out:
Here is me on stage with him:
Here is some shots of me with our group:
Here is a shots of Jack Cannon and me, his Fodera sounded awesome, he's a great bassist and one hell of a nice guy:
