“…Every gig has its own inherent musical challenges. The most important thing is to be able to creatively and artistically have your soul in that musical space at that time. I used to sub in a band on a television show here in New York, the Rosie O’Donnell show. And it may have been at the first gig when the drummer said to me, “Doing this gig is kind of like doing sprints. You have to be totally on, with everything perfect in your musical execution of something, and it could be four seconds long.” And that was the inherent challenge in doing that gig. You might have four of five measures of music, but they had to be a perfect four or five measures of music…”
[TJH]
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