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I joined Ani Difranco's Band |
May 11, 2007 11:58am |
Had a dream last night. I think it started around 6 or 7 am. Ani Difranco was performing with a band at some small venue, there was a different band playing on another stage in a different room. The guitarist's string broke and for some reason I had a Fender Stratocaster with me, it was one of the crappy ones that are made in Korea. The guitarist was grateful at first but quickly realized my guitar was a piece of shit (it was). So I tried to replace his strings quickly but there were too many broken. This all went on until I was suddenly hanging out with Ani and crew after their show.
Somehow I was suddenly proposing that I play back up with the band. They weren't into it. I grabbed someone's guitar and began to demonstrate my chops. This didn't go over well so I jumped on a piano and busted out a progression. They dug the progression and became open to discussion. Some where around this time I started waking up, it was around7:30am and I vividly remember popping in and out of my dream:
"it's 7:30am, should I get up?"
flashing back into my dream "I don't want to wake up I'm about to join Ani Difranco's band! Noooooo!" :
"I have to go back to sleep!"
I did go back into sleep and continued the story. I'm not sure if I was aware of how I had just consciously decided to continue the story, I might have just be praying in my dream that it wasn't a dream... maybe I really was about to become a permanent fixture in this awesome touring act!
Next thing I knew I had become aware that the players weren't all convinced I was made of the right stuff for their gig. I confronted them. I told them I was good! I was better then good! I was afraid they were going to steal my songs and leave me behind. When all of sudden I opened my eyes; it was 9am I had slept in. As a side note I realized I wasn't in the band.... it was a dream. Weird. |
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