{"id":3423,"date":"2010-06-11T16:16:05","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T16:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=3423"},"modified":"2010-06-11T16:26:43","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T16:26:43","slug":"pink-champaign-on-the-ceiling-pink-champaign-on-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=3423","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Pink Champaign On The Ceiling, Pink Champaign On Ice&#8221;&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"%22Pink%20Champaign%20On%20The%20Ceiling%2C%20Pink%20Champaign%20On%20Ice%22....\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"TCM\" src=\"http:\/\/sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-ash1\/hs439.ash1\/24260_1241652116922_1097894515_30565329_6246742_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"339\" height=\"447\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Those are my accidentally mangles lyrics to the song &#8220;Hotel California&#8221;, sputtered in front of a large audience while performing with my post-college band <em>Tribe Called Mike<\/em>.\u00a0 That was over twelve years ago, and the Sonic-Mate still won&#8217;t let me forget it!!!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkbass.com\/forum\/showthread.php?t=664006\">Talk Bass<\/a>, one of the young bass players is about to go on stage and play in front of people for the first time.\u00a0 He writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>my friend asked me to play bass with him on the drum and his brother on guitar at his open house a week from today. prolly to most of you this would be nothing but ive never played in front of more then like 6 people before and now im playing in front of like 200 people&#8230;.and my god am i nervous<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"EEK!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.talkbass.com\/forum\/images\/smilies\/colors\/eek.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The first time on stage can be really tough. People are usually nervous on stage because, more than anything, they are stressed about making a mistake, messing up. Two things to keep in mind.<\/p>\n<p>(1) Most of the mistakes you&#8217;ll make (and make no mistake, you&#8217;ll make &#8217;em, we all do) will be tiny ones. Almost everyone in the audience will never hear them. You&#8217;ll notice, but it&#8217;s because you are a musician and are acutely aware of every little thing you&#8217;re doing. There may be a few other musicians in the audience who will notice. But if they&#8217;ve also played on stage, they&#8217;ll have empathy because it&#8217;s happened to them too.<\/p>\n<p>And the major ones?<\/p>\n<p>(2) In 1984, my older brother went to see Bruce Springsteen at the San Diego Sports Arena. During the song &#8220;Born In The USA&#8221;, The Boss, one of the most experienced performers you&#8217;ll ever find, forgot the words to the song! And this was on the &#8220;Born In The USA&#8221; tour!!!! What did he do? He joked about it with the audience and moved on.<\/p>\n<p>Because I had some stage experience as an actor when I was very young, I didn&#8217;t have much of a problem being in front of people (which is strange because I was VERY shy as a kid). But I always had a fear of forgetting my lines. As a bass player, that fear carried over and my fear was indeed making a mistake while playing. My first band, <em>Outta Hand<\/em>, (the trio of Mikes that would later reform to become <em>Tribe Called Mike<\/em>),  the drummer and I shared lead vocal duties. I used to beat myself up pretty good when I made a mistake, either bass-wise or VOX. My bro had already told me the Springsteen story years earlier, but me, being hard headed, didn&#8217;t understand the lesson.\u00a0 It took a while, but I have to say that when I eventually absorbed the moral of the Springsteen story, that helped my performance confidence and competence so much. I found I was making less mistakes on stage because I was no longer anticipating and anguishing over it. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I still don&#8217;t like making mistakes (hate is the right word), and work hard not to. But, if the Big Boys, those guys who, you know, do this for a living, can forgive themselves for making an &#8220;Oopsie&#8221; on stage, then I, the raging unprofessional, who does this at best as a side job, well, I can cut myself a little slack.<\/p>\n<p>This leads me to my last point&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>(3)     RELAX!!!!!   Have a good time!   <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"hyper\" src=\"http:\/\/www.talkbass.com\/forum\/images\/smilies\/hyper.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"%22Pink%20Champaign%20On%20The%20Ceiling%2C%20Pink%20Champaign%20On%20Ice%22....\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Those are my accidentally mangles lyrics to the song &#8220;Hotel California&#8221;, sputtered in front of a large audience while performing with my post-college band Tribe Called Mike.\u00a0 That was over twelve years ago, and the Sonic-Mate still won&#8217;t let me forget it!!!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42 Over at Talk Bass, one of the young bass players is about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[42],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3423"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3427,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423\/revisions\/3427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}