Much music going on this weekend. Band practice tomorrow, we're gonna put together "Hotel California," so that should be interesting. I got together with John and Steve (the two guitarists) last Saturday at Steve's, and we worked out who's playing what, and we're putting it together with the rest of the band tomorrow. Basically, John and Steve cover the important guitar parts (and there are a lot of them), and I fill in B-3 with one hand and layered six-string plus 12-string with the other. Also "You're No Good" by Linda Ronstadt, and "Wonderful Tonight" by Clapton. Whoa, I just noticed that they're all pretty mellow, this batch. Except we're doing the live version of "You're No Good" which kinda rocks out. The Clapton is fun though because I'm again doing the B-3 with the left hand, but a Rhodes with the right.
We're also gonna review the two new ones from last time, Foghat's "I Just Wanna Make Love to You" (live version) and "Smokin'" by Boston. "Smokin" totally smoked. We sounded great, and that's a hard tune. So we'll do some rocking, too.
Then on Sunday, I'm providing the music for church. Our organist accompanies the children's show choir from our neighbor church, and they're doing a gig in Orlando, so I'm gonna play everything she would normally do, except on the grand piano up front. So that's gonna be sweet. I get to totally pound on it during the hymns and stuff because the congregation will be singing. Also, the Doxology. We redid the chancel a few years ago, pulled all the carpeting out and put in hardwood, and it's completely alive now. You've seen the pics.
Plus I get a few solos. A short bit called "Welcoming the Light" which is about a minute or a minute and a half (long enough for someone to walk up to the altar from the back, light three candles, then walk all the way back again). I'm gonna do a slow chill, bluesy version of "This Little Light of Mine". They won't recognize it at first, then when they do... well, hopefully I'll get a chuckle or two. Also the Benediction and the Postlude. A quickie, then I can basically do whatever I want for the Postlude. I've been wanting to play "Remembering You" (also known as the closing theme from "All in the Family") for a while, but I've got a pretty killer version of "Morning Has Broken" (with the Wakeman breaks) that would probably be more appropriate. I probably won't decide for sure until a few seconds before I play. Should be pretty cool.