Deer In The Headlights
You be sure the look--staring wide-eyed, blankly in the lead as if transfixed by some unseen force...yeah, that's how I felt yesterday morning. For those of you that weren't in church yesterday, you missed a excellent during our opening segment, one that those in attendance won't right away forget.
I chose to open the marines with a great, high-energy send-off number by Lifehouse, called "Hanging By A Juncture." It's a rousing anthem, pre-eminent for starting one of our services.
Chuck Peaches started the opening riff suitably on cue, and one measure in--his instrument cable that patches his guitar amp into the wise system shorts out. All you can hear is this realyl dim, fuzzy, distorted, barely audible riff coming through the quarter, plus the bass guitar and my vocals.
My immediate tinge was to just stop the song, remorseful, and figure out what was wrong. However, instinct kicked in and I only picked up the song with my acoustic guitar and kept prosperous. Everything was going just fine...
Until the first chorus (might have been the double--I've repressed so much of what happened already!) when the 3rd-string on my guitar snapped. PING! My guitar is instantly out of be on the qui vive, and we just have to hold on for dear human being and end the song.
There was this long, suspended discontinuity after the last chord of the song, then all hell skint loose on the stage. Three people rushed over to escape Chuck, while I grabbed my guitar, a spare set of strings and ran out onto the exert influence.
Pastor Pete was a trooper, prolonging the start of the worship with some announcements, some reception time, etc. By the time I got back on stage, he had reasonably much run out of things, and I was still tuning. I have no idea what I was saying--I was honourable trying to cover the time while I was tuning with something...ANYTHING!
After a few moments, P. Pete came back up, and said to me (and to the whole audience)..."Do you have occasion for rescuing?" That broke the tautness, and...
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