Yeah. What they all said. I never get over it, almost always get through it. I don't drink until after because one drink seems to help, two seems to help more and it only takes a drop for me to get vocally clumsy. And now that I"m learning to play guitar, I need every ounce of concentration just to remember how to hit that B7.

One thing I try to do is think about giving the audience something more than I think about my own stuff. If music is a gift you're giving you tend to get out of the way. Stage fright is the ego, scrambling for survival, doncha know.

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