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At 7:33 AM -0700 4/11/06, Kevin wrote: >>>David wrote: >>>"I had a nasty and humiliating experience in Berkeley a few years ago >>>when Henry Kaiser and John Oswald invited me to participate in a >>>noise-type event... >>I knew when I got there that I didn't really belong, but it >>wouldn't have been appropriate to split so I stayed and gave it my >>best shot. > >Scary. How did you know when you arrived that you didn't belong? >Was everyone dressing like the guest list at an art school concert? Heh. No, it was the sounds. Not much pitch, not much rhythm, not much beauty. >I can get tense on stage but I never have actual stage fright >because I tell myself: > >1. The audience didn't come to hear me suck. So they will be charitable. > >2. If I suck then the folks I'm playing will also suck. So they >will do their best to keep my head above water. > >3. Some people have in the past enjoyed some of my most desperate moments. > >4. The worst experiences make the best stories. > >5. It's only a gig. Good stuff. The only time in recent memory that I've been nervous on stage was when Darol Anger sat in with me in Florida a couple of weeks ago. He walked onto the stage while I was getting a loop piece started, and just wove his fiddle right in. I was thinking, "This isn't nearly interesting enough for him," but it was actually pretty cool. -- David Gans - david@trufun.com or david@gdhour.com Truth and Fun, Inc., 484 Lake Park Ave. #102, Oakland CA 94610-2730 Blog: http://playback.trufun.com