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Anthony Amodeo
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when I was studying at MI in LA we would do these performance evaluation performances for credits.
this one happened to be in the main big theatre which was full of people
It was the end of a semester and I needed credits so I looked at the list for the performance evaluation and saw "Misty Mountain Hop"
a song I had been playing along to since I was a kid...I thought it would be cake
so I get up there with musicians I have never met and count off the tune.
all is going well until that one point where the drums break and they reenter with the closed roll into the fill around the toms to kick back into the riff.....ya know the part I mean?
well when I went to jump into that fill I completely train wrecked it and got the whole band waaaaaay off track.....every player just about broke their neck they looked back at me so quickly
I eventually found my way back on track but not without being mortified in front of about 100 people ....all musicians waiting to perform
Tim Pederson who was the instructor ...and a fantastic drummer by the way....was very nice when I handed him my sheet for him to give the credits
as he was writing he said to me...."there were some nice moments in there"
it was a horrible feeling
I vowed at that very moment that this would NEVER happen to me again
this one happened to be in the main big theatre which was full of people
It was the end of a semester and I needed credits so I looked at the list for the performance evaluation and saw "Misty Mountain Hop"
a song I had been playing along to since I was a kid...I thought it would be cake
so I get up there with musicians I have never met and count off the tune.
all is going well until that one point where the drums break and they reenter with the closed roll into the fill around the toms to kick back into the riff.....ya know the part I mean?
well when I went to jump into that fill I completely train wrecked it and got the whole band waaaaaay off track.....every player just about broke their neck they looked back at me so quickly
I eventually found my way back on track but not without being mortified in front of about 100 people ....all musicians waiting to perform
Tim Pederson who was the instructor ...and a fantastic drummer by the way....was very nice when I handed him my sheet for him to give the credits
as he was writing he said to me...."there were some nice moments in there"
it was a horrible feeling
I vowed at that very moment that this would NEVER happen to me again