I've noticed that, at least on my computer, I have too many videos on the blog page at one time, so some of them don't really work or don't play with sound. I'm adjusting the settings to hopefully remedy this problem.
In other news, I felt like Monday didn't go particularly well at the open mic. Cherri and I had to start a song over, it didn't seem like I could get my fingers to work quite right, and we just weren't together. It really sucked, because I like those songs, and they had gone so well in rehearsal. I suppose it's just the reality of playing: sometime you eat the bear, and sometimes he eats you.
What is weird about this, though, is that other people really didn't seem to notice. As soon as we were coming off stage, one of the people said we sounded really good together. Later, I asked one of the other regulars how we sounded, and he said we were good, and that he liked my slide playing (which was one of the things I hadn't been happy with). So it's probably just the fact of being nervous and overly critical of ourselves. Probably, they were also being a little extra nice. But at any rate, that's one of the things that I have been finding dissatisfying about playing the open mic: everyone is so nice that you don't really get any feedback.
Here is some slide playing that truly is great:
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