Graham Goes Live

Yep. I had my first concert last night. It was horrible. Very horrible. Yeah. Asyraf (this awesome Malaysian kid) and I composed the entire band. It was just the two of us, and we both played guitar, so it sounded kinda bad. No drums, no bass, no nothin, just two guitars and me singing. Not a treat, believe me. At any rate, it was a song I had written. You think I would know it fairly well by the time I got on stage, but you would be wrong. It was a song about procrastination, and believe you me, it was utterly a child of the aforesaid crime, so I didn't know it as well as I should have. So I get on stage, I strike a chord, and we're off. First verse, so far so good. Mic system was a little weird, but we are in Yemen, we must make some allowances. This is where the story goes down hill. The chorus started well enough, but I had written three choruses that only differed by one line, and somehow I sang the second chorus. Crud. Oh well, next verse went ok, but then I sang the first chorus. Ok, fair enough, the order is off, but it doesn't make that much difference. So then I am trying to remember how the third verse goes, and I suddenly wandered off on the riff that was supposed to go after the third chorus and before the final chorus... Yeah, Asyraf wasn't so happy with me I imagine. So then that gets done and I have remembered the third verse and then I sang the final chorus, played the riff where it should have been, and my guitar dies. I hadn't had a single problem with that cable ever before, but it decides to die on me right there of all places. So we start in on the final chorus, which was supposed to be the first one, but for some reason I got the second one again, despite the fact that by that time I wasn't even playing guitar to distract my thinking... So that was the catastrophe that was my first concert. Interesting that I made my own concert before actually going to a real one... Quick update on my life: I get the rest of the week off! Yeah! and I joined facebook. The security stuff is rather disturbing... Legally allows them to give my contact information to the highest bidder while denying that they will.