I don't normally remember my dreams, but last Saturday I had one that was especially vivid. It concerned my band OPEK. I think we were to play a gig at a group home, with us playing on the floor. For some reason I had to leave, drove my car off, and returned before the show was over.
When I arrived back, my music was not ready and I frustratingly had to pick through a large pile of papers to try to find my part for whatever we were playing. I couldn't find any. In frustration, I called "Boogie Stop Shuffle" because I figured I'd be able to do enough of it from memory.
Despite playing it many times before, I had to stop the performance twice because the band couldn't follow instructions and was playing the piece completely wrong. After the second stop, I saw that the time was a few minutes before 3pm and it was almost time for the gig to end. So I gave up.
Real time, there are no OPEK gigs on the books with none planned, which is not to say I don't have some potential plans for the future that I'm mulling over. We'll see. The dream seemed like an amplified version of some of my frustrations leading up to some gigs.
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