Quote Originally Posted by Robert
Congrats Steve! Welcome to the club of public performers! It's a blast, isn't it?

Good to hear you didn't chicken out. I try to get some of my guitar students to local jams, but some of them are just too scared, unfortunately.
Thanks all! I have received a lot of help and support here and that really has helped. Robert, the key to not chickening out was to approach it as just having fun with it and not getting into my eldest child "Must be perfect" recital mode. Trev, just thinking of you in your KISS makeup helped with the right frame of mind!

Then, to keep it all in perspective, we had folks over for a barbecue. My guitar stuff was out, and one of the Dads who is relatively new to the area and his 15 year old son wanted to check it out. They plugged in, Dad did some nice bluesy stuff, and then son absolutely Ripped out some voodoo chili and a bunch of Dogtown soundtrack (70s) hard rock licks and blew me away. Nice reality check, that.