I think it's really, really good for me to be on stage once a year. It keeps your chops good. There's nothing else like it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
So it's really nice after about a year and a half to get back on stage and flex those old muscles.
To put it in musician's terms, my chops are good.
I just loved performing. It just made me feel alive. It's scary, but that's part of it. I think it's important to have that extra adrenaline. It gives you that extra zing.
I've never worked as much as I would've wanted to, and that's why I end up doing a lot of stage as well, because stage is a full course meal.
The stage is a routine. It keeps you grounded, like a metronome. I find that soothing.
It's an awesome thing to be flung out onto the stage twice a weekend in front of 250 people, and you have to make it up as you go along.
I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
As soon as I step on that stage, nothing matters. I don't think of it as work. It's just so much fun.
It's true that the more you put in the more you get out and that has to be there I think, If you aren't really hooked on your instrument this job would be a hell on earth but if you are, it's the best.
I definitely think it exercises an interesting muscle, auditioning for bad parts and trying to figure out how to make it real. I don't know what I'm talking about now.