Today's the day.

Playing my first show tonight. I feel pretty ready, but the rest of the band took today off or doesn't have jobs and they're starting to practice at noon... probably the earliest I can get there is 5 because I have, like, a "real" job. That gives me from 5 til 8 to get in a final practice and then we start to set up. I have a lot of excited/nervous energy, but less than I expected to. I think regardless we're going to do awesome because the one thing we can always do is jam and have great stuff come out of it. So we're going to play the songs we have down solidly and jam them all out, and probably do 2 or 3 total ad-hoc jams that may go on for 30 minutes each (last one we did was 40 minutes). We have to fill 4 hours so we're doing 3 sets with 20 minute breaks between.
2 days ago we practiced and it wasn't very productive... the guitar player really wants to use psychedelics to play a lot of the time (it may end up being something of an issue, we'll see), and all that was available was MXE which he had never tried. Well, turns out it doesn't agree with him so we lost most of a practice. Fortunately yesterday went really well, probably he best practice yet that was very directed and productive, and I feel a lot better after that.
The guitar player/lead man is possibly the most weird and wonderful person I have met, and certainly the most talented musician I have ever met personally. He's riding RIGHT on the edge of insanity and sanity, and this guy lives and breathes music. He's a genius for sure, but like, a very intense person. He actually plays even better on (tryptamine/lysergamide) psychedelics but he gets a lot weirder also. His plan is to take some 4-AcO-DMT tonight for the show, which makes me somewhat apprehensive but so far all of our best practices happened when he took 4-AcO-DMT so maybe it's not a bad thing. He's all about spreading love in the world, and watching his process is really fascinating. He's also one of the nicest people I've ever met. Really, really interesting guy but pretty much a wild card. We'll start jamming randomly and he'll write an entire song with lyrics and everything by the time we're done. He plays like 8 hours a day at least and he can play anything I've ever heard him try to play (including Jimi, especially Jimi actually) without having tried to play it before, he says he feels it and it just happens somehow. I think the only way he won't be someone of note in music is if he implodes first. So I decided I'm going to try to help that not happen. He's only 23, and he looks up to me as a similar sort of psychedelic explorer so hopefully I can influence him to not be so intense about taking them so often. The frequency does alarm me a bit as well as the idea that to be his best he has to take something.
Hey y'all, wanted to let you know my father just passed away. He had a massive heart attack Monday morning, the right side of his heart failed and he passed away at the hospital. I had been debating whether or not to come back to bluelight, and this more or less cinches it in the not category. Beyond trying to deal with his passing and trying to figure out how to move forward with my own live, he's lived on by three small children that I'm more or less responsible for helping his fiancé raise. Positive vibes would be very much appreciated right now, Lord knows we all could use them right now
I'm so sorry for your loss.

You have my condolences. My father is dying, but it's from ALS, and we have time to prepare. It must be much worse for it to be a sudden, unexpected thing.
It's a very weird day. Someone from my group (I still live in a psychiatric facility) has tried to commit suicide. I kind of need a place to vent this with people that might understand, so here I am PD..
Well this is the perfect place to come for support. That must be unnerving...