Yesterday, I taped 4 songs for a new NBC show called "StarTomorrow". The show airs this Monday night at 8pm so tune in to see what it’s all about. From what I understand, Monday’s show is just their "Audition Special"(something along the lines of American Idol’s audition shows)…There’s a little video clip that explains more about it on http://www.nbc.com/StarTomorrow . I don’t think I’ll be on that part of the show because I was out of town when they were taping that but a friend of mine [Tony B.] should be on it [he's also part of the show too].

I have no clue if I’m in the top 100 of the bands that will be competing but I’ll find out in the next few days I guess. What I can say is what yesterday was like

We were told we needed to perform a total of 4 songs. 2 Originals and 2 Cover songs from an approved list. The songs were to be played back to back with a little introduction to each and they told us we couldn’t stop. If we were to mess up, we had to just keep going…no 2nd takes. Not a problem there…we breezed right through ‘em and I thought it sounded pretty good (at least from on stage it did).

We played:

1. Ain’t Too Proud To Beg (The Temptations)
2. Upside Down
3. The Easy Way
4. I’ll Be (Edwin McCain)

What a great stage it was too!

After, the band and I were placed in a holding room for a bit and then they took us to another part of the building where they interviewed us. 4 chairs sitting there with lights…cameras and a crew. A nice gal interviewed us and asked questions you would expect to be asked …like "how long have you been playing?", "What are your influences?"… etc…

So there I am with sweat dripping off me being silly and answering without trying to look too foolish (I’m not sure I succeeded there LOL).  I tend to get this sort of nervous energy while talking and I have a hard time controlling what comes out. I hope I don’t come across as sounding too silly though. At one point the gal interviewing us said "ok…um…we’ll need a shorter answer to that question" LOL. I stumbled over a few questions that caught me off guard but all in all, it was rather painless. I’m sure they’ll edit it down to what they want to get.

I must say… I REALLY loved the whole experience. I want more of that

And so…if I get the official word that I’m on the show it’ll be a little like running for office. I just hope I don’t get put against the guy with no arms who plays the guitar with his feet…kind of hard to beat that

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