Agree 100%. When we get on stage something WILL go wrong. There's no way around that. Equipment's gonna fail, somebody's gonna blank, etc, etc. All that planning and all that structure get thrown out the window.
We need to work on listening to each other and ourselves. Lean on these guys that have played out before. If you get off track, Ray will always be ready with hitting the downbeat. Mark can cut a solo at a moment's notice to help cover. I'll add visual and audio cues. While structure is something worth attaining, I'm not interested in having a recital. When we start doing that we're going to lose the drama and the impact and we're going to end up alienating the very people we want to enjoy, (and hopefully buy) our product.
Live music is a different beast and the only thing that can break that beast and make it our own is going out and actually playing. This web stuff is fine, but we can't cut out eye to eye human contact. You can have the best, highly produced demo in the world, but if you can't get people to come out and see you, it's just wasted money.
We need to go out, we need to experiment. We need to find out what works and what doesn't. We're not going to get that playing songs over and over and over again in a studio. We need to learn how to connect and interact with an audience. That's how we're going to get a following.
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