ceciliatan: (darons guitar)
2016-03-26 09:00 am

Beat Farmers

Mirrored from the latest entry in Daron's Guitar Chronicles.

(Thanks to donations, here’s the third Saturday post in a row! See below for some other fun news! -ctan)

Marvelle had a pretty decent resume for a working musician. He’d just come off a gig in the touring company of a Broadway musical (Phantom of the Opera), had played jazz, rock, and R&B, did session work, dropped Jordan’s name, and said he’d got interested in working with us because he’d been at The Cat Club that night when Ziggy and Sarah’d had their sing-off. He was in his mid-thirties and didn’t seem nervous. All of that should have been in his favor.

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ceciliatan: (darons guitar)
2016-03-22 09:00 am

PART EIGHTEEN: Boys Keep Swinging

Mirrored from the latest entry in Daron's Guitar Chronicles.

I don’t know why I was nervous for the first day of auditions. I was not the one trying to get a gig. I was the one doing the auditioning–I mean, the auditing? What’s the right verb for that? I guess it’s called auditioning both when you’re the one going in for the gig and when you’re the one doing the hiring.

That’s weird, isn’t it? Or maybe it isn’t, because all performance is collaborative on some level.

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