Yeeeha!

Playing a gig tomorrow for an internet company that sounds like Yeeha. I'm a loyal Googly user, but hey, the gig pays well. We drove for an hour in rush hour traffic tonight to load in the drums. I'm realizing, in this drum building process, just how precious those drums are. All the work that goes into them. It's a shame we weren't forced to participate in drum building as beginners. I was looking at them as we were leaving, wondering, will the be ok? Will anyone touch them when we're not around? Who's gonna protect them? When we are moving drums from the cars to our practice space, I never leave the drums alone, even if it means standing there with a handful of shime or slant stands weighing me down. Heck, I'm willing to fight off adolescent boys again just to be sure the drums are safe. I was totally being the paranoid, doting parent, even though they're not my drums, but still. I didn't even bring my own baby tonight. I'd rather lug her to work and then from wherever we can find parking up to the top floor of this place rather than leave her alone. I think she is one of precious objects I own.

Anyhow, the gig promises to be interesting. I think it will test our ability to just go with the flow and how to handle last minute changes at the last second. But that's ok. We're pros, right? Or some of us are anyway--I'm just a newbie. I think there will be dj's and flashing lights and a ton of geeky techno-geniuses. Not sure how taiko will go over, but that's the fun of doing gigs, right?

And work leaves me way to busy to be nervous. May 1st is the day all the colleges have decided as the deadline for students to choose which college they want to go to. It's basically the day all college admissions people live, work and breathe for. In between processing student's decisions, I've been practicing Kai to Ryu, but no promises for performance. It was funny because today I was waiting for the traffic light to change outside of work and one of my old Emeryville Taiko buddies pulled up beside me and caught me practicing in my car. She must think I'm crazy!