Jam at Echo Island Pub.

Tonight I played at the jam at Echo Island Pub in Harrison Hot Springs again.

I started on bass because I didn't want to think of songs to play. Although I know lots of songs, I don't have many memorized.

I bought the shirt a few days ago. I bought a "Large." It appears too large in the photo.

Then they got me to pull my guitar out of the trunk, where I proceeded to humiliate myself. I had never led the "power trio" format before. It was a mess.

I wound-up playing songs like "My Best Friend's Girl," "Bad Moon Rising," "With or Without You," and any other songs I could think of that featured simple instrumentation. I usually only remembered the lyrics to disparate portions of unconnected verses. 

They even got me to play "Paranoid," which I'd never played before in my life. Barry, on bass, took the vocals and I followed the guitar riff; I learned that I should never play such a thing again. According to reports, I had an enormous grin on my face throughout the song.