There's nothing like it. I just played my first show opening up for a professional band with my jazz combo (if anybody remembers me saying that I was focusing on music and stuff, it's going well). We didn't get paid or anything, but I got 20% off of my food at the bar we were playing at, so technically I got paid $1.10 an hour for a half-hour of playing. It was awesome. But I'm not making this blog to brag about crap, but to announce that I'm going to write some more crap in the next few weeks.

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