I was thinkin' that night about Elvis...
One of the finest songs ever. RIP after a long, long time.
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That was an outstandingly complicated six minutes! Just joyous.
And if I go off my low carb diet you are solely to blame. 
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We had been working on putting an 8-pc electric all-original band together for TWO
FULL YEARS without getting up on a stage. We thought we were getting close, so we
hit this open mike as an acoustic trio (our rhythm guitarist, the other vocalist - female -
and me) to see what an audience of strangers would think of what we were doing. We
were unbelievably uncertain and insecure about what we were doing as only a few close
friends had seen/heard us rehearsing (and, of COURSE they're going to tell you, "You're
fantastic!!!"
. That first open mike venue was every musician's DREAM -- a bar that
attracted lots of fine material and musicians because the audience actually LISTENED
instead of seeing who could drunkhoot and drunkholler the loudest.
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The "WOO-HOO Girls" and the "WOO-HOO Boys".
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So we finally worked up the balls to go in and see what the audience reaction was to
what we were trying to do. Because the half-dozen or so acts playing before us were
SO good, we literally almost walked out of the bar a couple of times rather than
"embarrass ourselves".
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There was only one act left until we were up -- and we're edging towards that door
when we stopped in disbelief and joy. The two guys were an acoustic blues duet...
and the were the godddamnedest WORST blues duet ever in the history of the blues.
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HALLELUJAH!!! We hit that stage with all the confidence in the world -- knowing that
we couldn't POSSIBLY sound worse than our "opening act".
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BTW... that audience LOVED what we gave them and we finally KNEW we were on
the right track.
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