Tomorrow, or today...Is gonna be my first time on stage since my only real sub-par set. I had a confrontation with an audience member over her heckling my performance and my returning said heckling. I walked off stage, half the crowd was on my side, the other wasn't. In my head though it felt like everyone hated me. I couldn't look anyone in the face, I simply left, got in my car and drove home. That drive was one of the few times i didn't play any music. I just sat in the car and thought about what went wrong. How did something I felt so good about go sour.
Anyone that knows me, knows I really am a nice guy and truly hate offending or upsetting anyone. I tried to explain to the audience member, how hard it is to perform, and if I did something to offended her, feel free to tell me after. Due to it being in the heat of the moment it probably came out a lot worse than it should. I haven't seen the audience member since, I hold no resentment, and frankly am sorry it ended how it did. I should have just let it go, but unfortunately I love working a crowd, it's been one of my favourite things to do while performing.
Today I am hitting the stage since that show. My ego is severely bruised, my mojo feels empty. I just am really scared she will be in the audience with her friends and boo...It's a nightmare of mine really. I'll go on tomorrow, do my best and hopefully things will go alright.
As I go to sleep I hope to wake up with thicker skin though, cause if one person got me this bad, how will I handle Bloggers.
Night.
Rams
2 comments:
Rams,
You'll be alright. I'd tell you to forget about it, but you simply can't shrug those things off. All you can do is continue.
Your story reminds me of when I see people write lousy comments on Youtube. It's supremely easy to put people down when you're not in the spotlight, whether you're leaving a textual comment or heckling some comedian while sitting in the shadows.
Take care, champ.
You'll do perfectly well!! You just need to know it. You. will. do. perfectly. well.
I have witnessed said incident. And I know that's the worst that could happen anyway, so there's pretty much nothing to worry about, right?
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