The best advice I can give to ANYONE looking to join a band or a musical partnership is, make sure YOU, are the weakest link musically. (This is not to detract from your talents and abilities) but if you can make it into a group like this, the stronger talents and musical diversity of the other musicians will push you, motivate you, and ultimately make a better play out of you than you could have ever imagined, in your struggle to keep up.



(...course, taking a gig on a cruise ship where you play an average of 7-8 hours a day, 6 days a week, can do wonders for your chops, working in new material, and, overcoming any stage fright you thought you had.)