I suppose I have played some thousands of gigs now and I am faily immune to it(touch wood0, butI can still get the shakes before new material or before getting going with an audience I am afraid will be hostile or uninterested.Tell yourself they will be interested! Luckily it normally goes when you start playing, something to concentrate. Same thing when you've got someone seasick on a boat...get them to steer and it passes in a jiffy in most cases. I had to act in a show recently that I'd written the music for, and acting is something I dont normally do. Now thistime it really kicked in.I was shaking like a leaf, even while performing! Fellow performerssaid they could see my legs vibrating during a solo song. But someone in the audience said it was nice to see me relaxed and obviously enjoying myself, durig the very same song. But Ican tell you I was very glad the costume for the show was brown trousers. You'll be all right....start with an easy one and go for it. And sometime, when you've got aminute, ask me totell you about the night Jimmy shat in the bear costume!