Great gig last night in L.A. with ten musicians on stage, playing the entirety of my friend's newest album. As I've mentioned before, they are all serious big time musicians, well known session musicians, people with PhDs in music, people with Grammys and Bammies. Then little old amateur me on the vibraphone.
I played well and think we sounded great. CMM came with me and helped me cart around my gear. He was very impressed. One of my sona was there too, he hadn't seen me play the vibraphone before, he was very impressed too!
On a different, sadder note: a good friend of mine, who I've known for almost 40 years, was admitted to the hospital last week with critical heart failure and is on the transplant list, I just saw him and his wife a week before, they had just had their first grandchild and had just moved back to California after spending a few years in D.C. - in fact they are still in a temporary apartment until their tenant moves out of their house. They were poised to enjoy retirement and new grandchild and now his condition has suddenly decompensated.
It just reminds me, for those of us here - no matter where you are in your divorce or recovery, DONT FORGET TO LIVE!!!!
