Tonight
If you weren’t here tonight (and of the people on this Earth, all but about 15 of you weren’t, almost none of whom I know), you missed me performing publicly for the first time in a year and a half.
Just 3 songs (”Something True”, “Puppet” and the “Moonage Daydream” cover, with no guitars), to a small and confused audience who were wondering where my acoustic guitar was and why all that racket was coming from the iPod, but I performed, and at the risk of being immodest, I think I sounded pretty good.
Strangely enough, I’ve got more anxiety about doing it now that I’m done than I had before or during. Maybe it’s because I’m worried about you all getting excited about this (given how the crowd went mild when I announced my possible release of my demos, this might be unfounded), or maybe it’s something else, but I’m a little on edge about telling the world this, even if I think it’s important that I do so. So, please, folks, be gentle. Don’t make such a fuss, if you were thinking of it. This is, after all, an isolated occurrence. Temper your expectations accordingly.