Oh dont worry, I knew you were kidding. I just have one more thing to add to this first gig. I was a great experience for us, gave me an idea of what its like and if I really want to keep going with it. To be honest, I had fun and I was flattered that the other band thought I was good enough to sit in with them, this is a band that is well known in our area and does a lot of gigs so it was pretty cool to be asked. But, I did not care for all of the heavy drinking going on, I myself drank Coke and ate some really good chocolate chip cookies the rest of the night while watching people get hammered and make fools out of them selves. This is not an atmosphere that I want to have every time we do a gig. Makes me wonder if I can get into a band someday that could play for a sober crowd. Because watching a bunch of drunks get into a band is not the thing for me. Hell, you dont have to be good to do that. So, I would like to inmpress a crowd that can walk a straight line.
Jeff,
Unfortunately, the drinking kind of goes with the territory in a lot of these gigs. I started playing clubs when I was 15. My parents drove me to the bar and one of the band members brought me home around 2:00am or so. Believe it or not, my home was pretty straight-laced Baptist. I saw an awful lot of ridiculous drunks at an early age and it was a complete turn-off. By the time I was sixteen I was constantly stealing the keys of people twice my age and driving them home.
Two things (among many) I learned from those experiences:
1.) I never had a desire to ever drink and I never have. At 50 years old I have no idea what a beer tastes like.
2.) I would not have passed up the opportunity to play regardless.
