I had an amazing yet semi nerve racking experience today.
My band played for a Yamaha demo at a local church. This means that we pretty much had a sound check all day while a number of different guys (with extremely sensitive ears) walked up and down the aisles and sat in various pews around the room; all the while wearing as many different expressions as you can imagine, depending on what the sound man was doing. The nice thing is that, at the end of the day, they're not listening to how well you play, only how good you sound. :~)
A few days ago, our band decided to add Fernando Ortega's song, "Sing to Jesus", to our set list . We are big fans of Fernando and of his beautiful song, so it only seemed appropriate. Little did we know...
It just so happened that John Schreiner, the co-writer and producer of the song, stopped by to demo the piano microphones. And so, we had the unique privilege of playing one of our favorite songs for one of its brilliant writers. SCARY! (and yet cool :~).
Afterward, he actually said that we sounded really good! He sat there and told us some background of why they wrote the song and what it was like collaborating with Fernando; priceless.
Saturday, March 03, 2007
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Thats to cool!! Did he mention possibly getting you guys a gig with Fernando? :~)
Nope. But I was shaking pretty bad just playing for him; who knows what a gig with Fernando would do! :-)
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