How is this possible? This is a serious question on how this happens....
Last night I played out with my band. We have not practiced in about two weeks, but have played out three times since.
You can see where this is going, right?
We opened up for a popular cover band in CT, and only had about 30 people who were there from our camp. The place went nuts for us; the bar owner loved us, gave us a bonus and re-booked us; the other band asked us to play with them at Toad's; a bunch of sign-ups on the email list....
......but we sucked!?!
How can it be? It was a bad show and I have a video to prove it. None of the 'Your standards are too high for yourself' or 'You are your hardest critic' crap applies here. We were too loud and too fast. I hit about 10 bad notes (on slide) I played the wrong chord three times, the singer was flat, my tone was horrendous, etc....
I know this is how many musicians feel after shows, they focus on the bad, but this was autrocious. Even worse, the video camera used to tape it seems to have a tracking problem and it is almost unwatchable because of the "tape dragging" effect that modulates the pitch of music. I need to get an audio copy of the show and give it a listen.
Maybe I am splitting hairs. I guess you can say that many people do not discern microtonal differences that, to me, sound out of key to me. Maybe they were all drunk, it was a bar you know! :tw59
I guess we had fun and that is a huge part of what comes across. If I get a copy of the audio, I'll post an example of the "suckage" fest...