Longing for the day ...

Playing to 20,000 people

The other night I went to see Kaki King play at the Powerhouse in Brisbane. She was interesting, though a little wet for my taste. The girl can certainly play guitar ...

Anyway, in the midst of a huge name-dropping exercise she mentioned becoming addicted to red wine and playing on stage with Dave Grohl while in Europe. The punchline to this story was a great quote that I think explains why everyone who's serious about playing music does it:

"It's highly addictive, more than red wine, to hear 20,000 people screaming your name."

Never a truer word spoken ... and the biggest crowd I've played for was only about 2000. I can only imagine what 20,000 people must be like.