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SHINE ON YOU CRAZY DIAMOND

I was fairly nervous when we went into the room. Even though Sue billed the whole thing as a mellow jam session type arrangement, I knew I would be on the spot.

I met the other girls in the band -- they all seemed cool.

We plugged in and bullshitted for awhile. Then we started to warm up. The drummer and lead guitar player were really pretty good, which didn't make me feel any better.





I didn't know the Creamy songs as well as I thought I did. Actually, I was sort of botching them up and getting mean looks from the other girls. In the middle of the third pass at this one song, "Slippery When Wet", I just stopped playing and the rest of the band did too.

"Sorry, " I said. "I suck."

Sue took me outside in the hallway. "Look, " she told me. "Those guys are jocks about this stuff, but I'm not. Sure, they've got chops, but you've got attitude. So just go girl, and forget about them."