yeah, stagefright can be pretty hard on people sometimes, last show my band played I was not only playing in front of the best slap bassist in my age group (he's been playing for five years to my two and a half, but also my ex, and her new boyfriend. I was shaking up, but I find that just pretending that the audience doesn't exist really helps, I visualize the stage as our practice space, except much larger, and I'm just jamming with the band, the audience is just a painting on the wall to me, and there is really no judgement going on. At that point, the stress just melts away, and I can really start to rock out!!!:
"the emperor is rich, but he cannot buy another year"
-anonymous chinese person
"the thief is sorry for being hung, not for being a thief"
-anonymous
"We are not nationalities, we are not races, we are not political parties, we are not social classes, we are not cultures, we are not subcultures, and we are not churches, but when all things are said and done, the guns are shot, the riots have died down, one thing is true, and that should preceed all other things, we are, without division: HUMAN BEINGS, is that not good enough an excuse stop shooting people, and letting others starve to death?" -Pie_man_25