Sloppy

Let’s face it…we sucked….big time…

It was there on a near-empty bar named 9-Mile that PayItForward, after almost a year of hibernation played again onstage, to the dismay of friends and unfamiliar faces.

Of course, being the proud people that we are we’d deny the reality that we sucked, we’d blame the equipment particularly the drum set, we’d blame the other bands who elbowed their way to skip the lineup and just play when they want to regardless of the lineup.

We could go on and on about the how’s and why’s of why we played terribly that night in spite of the fact that we now have our own gears, we’re old and we have our own priorities that we cannot simply just put aside for the sake of practicing. We have become over-confident of our capacity to play during rehearsals; we have become naïve in believing that we’d always be met with the equipment that’s as far as we’re concerned on par with our expected sound.

It sucked, so what after almost more than a decade of playing live on stage and having more than enough of our share of public humiliation as a band, what’s a bad set compared to what we learn with experiences like such. Thankfully tomorrow’s another day.