About a month ago, I posted that my wife(our drummer) and I had gone to see our bass player's other band and they invited us up to play half a dozen songs. Last night, we went to see yet another of our bass player's bands and as we're sitting there minding our own business, all of a sudden Nino the bass player says "And now, guest vocalist, Steve Gardner!" So I go up there and they say Johnnie B. Goode, so I say OK and they launch into it. Now today I remember the lyrics to JBG like my own name but last night, all I could think of was the verse about carrying his guitar in a gunny sack which I sang several times in various combinations with other snippets. At that point in the evening, it didn't seem to matter as long as noise was coming out of my mouth that resembled words.
Halfway through the song, Nino says "You wanna play?" and I say "sure" and he hands me his 1966 Gibson Thunderbird that he just paid $7500 for (no, I didn't add another zero to that figure). That thing is sweet, so easy to play and a sound like buttah.
Then, after a little hemming and hawing, they decide to play Day Tripper which I happen to know how to play on bass, with a pretty drunk guy trying to sing it, except I couldn't remember the chords on the middle part until the song was about over. Everybody said it sounded fine, but I had a bad case of flopsweat during both of those songs.
We actually have our own gig, the first since October, next month at the Walk & Rock for Kids in Sacramento at Raley Field, the AAA ball park. Anybody in the Sacramento area on May 29 is encouraged to find the east entrance to the park where we'll be playing from like 7AM to Noon. We'll have an audience of several thousand but not voluntarily, they have to walk by us to participate in the event. Ha.
