double dose

We met on the stage at church (which makes perfect sense when you know that our church is housed in an old school...). She strapped on her electric guitar. He tuned up his bass. He adjusted the drum set and chose his sticks. She brought a paper cup of water to her place at the microphone and warbled a few bars of warm-up. These are some of my favorite people for sure, and we opened in prayer (good idea) before we rocked the house for 3 hours. We cranked out honky-tonk, blues, rock-'n-roll, country (heaven help me), and other 50's-era styles in preparation for a Saturday gig: a 25th Wedding Anniversary Celebration in honor of dear friends. And although the genre was bit of a stretch for my classically-trained fingers, I even attempted a Jerry Lee Lewis imitation. For the uninitiated, this move involves elbows and feet.
So it wasn't exactly chamber music. So I had to play an electric piano, not an elegant Steinway. Never mind that we were sight-reading for the most part and that the lyrics included words such as baby, dreaming, lonely, and "stupid cupid". It was fun. Fun, fun, fun.

Sometimes ya just need a dose of fun.