I played last Thursday with my buddy at a high school talent show (mentioned this in another thread). We weren't the talent, we were the OFs showing the others how it was done. The first song was a new one for us. 'Flowers on the Wall', last heard in Pulp Fiction. I go to sing the last verse in harmony with my buddy and I can't see the @#%$! words on the music rack. Not only that, I'm looking through my bifocals at the wrong verse. Next song, I break a string on my Guild - a fairly new set of Elixirs, so I was as surprised as any. Finished the song OK (AIMEE, what you gonna do???) with some chord formations other than what I had intended (making do without a G string....no comments, please!!!) Fortunately, for the rest of the set, my buddy was playing mando, so I could borrow his Taylor. We did a bang-up job on Guy Clark's 'Home Grown Tomatoes' with guitar and mando, and they gave us a standing O. The moral from the OFs - don't let on that everything's breaking down on stage (eyes, guitar, vocal cords, etc, etc) and 98% of them won't know the difference.

Proud to be an old folker,

Lynn