Feeeeeeeed my eyes.

My friend Kraig is in a band called Relentless, and they played a grueling 3 hour set on Saturday.  Kraig sings, and asked me if I wanted to do a number so that he could take a break for a minute or two in one of the sets.  I agreed to do Man in the Box by Alice in Chains.  I didn’t really think much about the idea of singing for real in a bar until Saturday.  The entire day was a series of small panic attacks and waves of nausia.  How can I possibly expect to be a singer in my own band if I can’t even do one song with someone else’s?  Anyway, all these terrible memories of past public performances started to wash back up.  Specifically, in 5th grade I auditioned for the school talent show, a venue in which most people are accepted.  I bought a karaoke tape of Amy Grant’s Every Heartbeat and practiced over and over and over for weeks.  I knew that song in and out, and I was pretty good at it, if I do say so myself.  Needless to say, I choked at the audition and joined the ranks of the very talentless few who did not get to perform.  In high school I was in a jazz-fusion/progressive rock band called Metropolitan Bard.  Our first show was at some “cyber” cafe with a name I can’t recall.  I thought it went pretty well, but when we were done my mom said I looked “too stiff.”  Thanks mom.  Besides jazz labs in high school, my public performances have been pretty few and far between.

Despite my slow start, I thought my lil’ numba went ok.  I couldn’t hear myself in the monitor so the low parts are a little rough, but the chorus was rockin’.  I also stupidly did not charge my camera, so it only makes it through the first chorus, but what are you gonna do?  Anyway, I hope ya’ll enjoy my first contribution to youtube.