Left Madison at 1:30am and drove all the way to Sioux Falls, 7 hours. Now at the hotel with three hours downtime before heading to the college. The school has hired a professional video crew to film our performance and hopefully create a live DVD item we can sell. Not a good idea to not have good sleep before being filmed but oh well! We just have to make the best of it. We're beyond exhausted.
The show in Madison was my best of the three shows with Willy, because I finally got to a point of feeling really confident about what I was playing. Confident enough to take a sitar solo during Willy's song "Mystery." When he threw it to me, I shook my head no, and then I did it anyway and it was great. I was hesitant because the song is in a key that's a half step higher than how my sitar is tuned, and I just don't know where all the notes are that would work. I had a few though, and decided to just go for it. And afterwards there were tons of complements. That was a breakthrough for me because I struggle with feeling musically incompetent. It was really really good to finish the mini tour this way. I wish we had more shows together so I could continue to be pushed and continue growing. The band, all nine of us, achieved a perfect balance of knowing the music and knowing what to do but also being open to improvised moments, and a certain amount of looseness that made it all very live. It's like, more rehearsals would have killed the excitement.
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