Just Wondering ... Options

[Alen]

Hi All,

I just was thinking about one thing I heard once ago and wanted to share it here with you guys who surely have
live playing experience. I think Steve Vai said it in one of his interviews. Or was it Satriani? Well doesn't matter, because each one of them certainly must know.

When asked about readiness to play live in front of a huge audience, the statement was as follows:
If you decide to play a particular song, you for sure have to know it but that is not enough. You should
have assimilated it and if not wanting to experience a complete desaster on stage, you should of course
be able to play it completely drunk. I mean, I understand that, because it's not sufficient to have 'balls' to
get out on stage only. For instance, I would never get on stage with a song I just learnt the day before and out of ten trials managed to play it maybe three times correct, five times so-so, and two times with obvious mistakes. Would that be
odds you would take to go out on stage?

Now Vai (or Satriani) said, you need to be at least five times more skillful player than the audience is watching on stage.
Well I've seen Vai a couple of times ... and now I try to imagine there actually stands a five times more skillful player then I get to see.

What do you think of yourselves? Do you show everything on stage you have, or are there songs/licks/solos you just learnt two weeks ago and maybe they work really good, but, agh, you just don't feel ready to perform it yet. But you know deep inside - you are better than you on stage.

Stay tuned!

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