not quite the comfort zone, but I survived…
so I sat in with The Crimestoppers, two songs on guitar, two or three on vocals…we ended up not doing the songs *I* thought we were gonna do…POWDERFINGER was OK; DOWN BY THE RIVER was a bit better…my solo verse on THE WEIGHT was the best thing I did IMHO, that was Kennedy’s idea…*I* was expecting to do some Dead or Allman Bros, but I was a guest, so I did what I was told–how often does that happen? I seemed to have connected with their lead singer (Danny) and Kennedy (the bass player) was already familiar with my background vocal ability…and Eric (the drummer) whatever he thinks of me and/or my ability, has been nothing but nice to me–gave me a free Crimestoppers T-shirt after their gig…hopefully there will be another sit-in somewhere someday…
ADDENDUM–on the other hand, my presence seemed to disrupt the Internal Interpersonal Band Dynamic as well as the set list…and I STILL say that a LIVE performance of ANY song by ANYBODY does not have to be “like the record”–the drummer initially wanted me to sit in on whatever Dead or Allman covers we might have done because those groups, like the Crimestoppers, have 2 guitars and keyboards–what effin’ difference does THAT make? (sigh) Just because you’ve got got two (or three) guitars AND keys doesn’t mean ya can’t play FIRE AND RAIN if ya wanted to….So I actually don’t see another sit-in in my future…And to top it all off a so called “friend” welched on a bet (we shook on it) he and I made over what song the band was playing at some point–*I* knew it was BERTHA (a Grateful Dead song) but he disagreed…I was right, he was wrong…I could use that $20 bucks now…