I played my first show since getting back to Louisiana on Saturday at The Saladino Gallery in Covington. I love having a show on the North Shore. We left early and enjoyed a rest and drink in the park right on the lake before going set up.
We had worked hard during the week preparing a set that would complement Blake O'brien's work. He had requested I play a Radiohead cover from their last record and something from The Smiths. Needless to say the setlist leaned towards a more moody, and dark set. For whatever reason, we struggled a bit to settle into the set and I think I got a little too into my head about the material I had chosen for the evening since there were kids and older folks hanging out.
Then I let it go and drifted off into the music and forgot about the struggling. For whatever reason, every night is different. Same sound equipment, same sound guy (me) and same instruments but man things can feel funny at times. Most of the time I know as soon as I sound check wether it's going to be a fight or an easy ride.
On Sunday, we got up and had coffee and breakfast and wandered into the woods and noticed a huge spider spinning his web. I think we sat there for a good 20 minutes watching all eight legs in perfect concert, weaving and spinning. It was amazing how the spider didn't even look at each of his legs, he just reacted to his surroundings combining the old web with his new one.
Later Sunday night someone sent the video above to me. At first when I saw it was a video, I remembered the struggle and didn't really want to watch it. When I hit play, I heard something beautiful and saw my mind completely immersed with two hands in perfect symphony with each other, moving like the spider.
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