Sanctus Real

En Fuego Festival - Verbena, Alabama.

So our set time was at 6:30pm. Just in time for the sun to set directly in our eyes. Chris convinced me to wear my sunglasses. I always feel a little strange doing this. I don’t know why. Maybe I feel like I’m hiding something. Or maybe there is a better connection between band and audience when we can see each other in the eyes. Or maybe I’m just too cool for school. Who knows.

Anyway, he convinced me to wear them, and it’s going alright until about 20 minutes in when the sun sets below the horizon. I no longer need them. Not only do I not need them, they’re annoying. It’s too dark. It’s too dark, and surely everyone in the crowd wonders why this idiot is wearing sunglasses when it’s dark. He thinks he’s so cool. At about this time I see Chris take his sunglasses off and put them on his amp. I see Pete throw his Sanctus Real sunglasses into the crowd. Matt and Mark knew better than to wear them in the first place. The problem for me is that I have pitiful vision. My sunglasses are prescription, and my normal glasses are on the bus. What is poor Danny to do? Wear sunglasses in the dark and feel funny about it, or take them off, play blind, and feel funny about that. It’s a lose/lose situation. Oh, and my microphone keeps shocking me every time I sing. Unrelated, but Lose/Lose/Lose. All I do is lose.

Since there is no winning for me, I decide to try something new and play the rest of the show with my eyes naked. No glasses. A little dangerous but could be fun, right? It kinda is. Everybody disappears. My bandmates become squabbly blobs and the audience becomes a wash of bright colors. I glare across the stage at Chris to razz him for what he’s done to me. At least, I think it was Chris. It could’ve been an ostrich, a Jonas Brother, or a basketball hoop for all I knew. Although I doubt anyone brought any of those things up on stage while this was going on. It was probably Chris. Anyway, he felt bad about it, but I thought it was funny, like a great accidental prank.

So good one Chris.  Now I’m going to change all the settings on your amps and guitar pedals.

dg

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