Everything Aches

Yesterday's back-to-back gigs were fun but I can feel it this morning. I played from 10:30 in the morning until around 4pm at the Aquarium. I then took the whole sound system down and moved it up to Chattanooga's Arts district on a grassy knoll across from the Renaissance Commons and played for another 4 hours with Gary Hicks for the Bella Sera festival.

Gary and I hadn't played together for a while so it was fun hearing the old songs fall smoothly back into place and it was even more fun improvising new pieces. I split my time between my D600 and my Linear Chromatic. The weather was beautiful but the humidity kept changing as a cold front was moving through the area. Just about any time I wasn't playing I was tuning. I have around 200 strings to keep in tune and I of course know it would be a lot easier to just take one instrument to my gigs but I'm hooked on the versatility that having two instruments affords.

I'm playing another 5 hours today and then attending my daughter's dance recital. Come hear me at the Tennessee Aquarium from 11 to 3.

¶ 7:59 AM