Cornbread – Panama

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Just because you CAN play “Eruption”, doesn’t mean you SHOULD; particularly when your audience is entirely comprised of restaurant patrons who are expecting nothing more than a bit of ambient folk music.

Yep, at a Mexican restaurant last night, one of the fairly inebriated diners asked the performing guitarist if he could play a song. MISTAKE #1.

Fortunately, the patron had already had several beers, otherwise there’s no way he would have actually gone up. MISTAKE #2.

Brilliantly, the diner/musician decided to “wow” the crowd with a tune that was moderately out-of-genre for the evening….80s metal. MISTAKE #3.

Perhaps not surprisingly, once the “performance” began, it became clear that no one in the room could play “Eruption”, including the only person in possession of the tool actually capable of making it happen. MISTAKE #4.

Fortunately, the restaurant food was superb enough to more than make up for the audio foux pas. So like I said, just because you CAN, doesn’t mean you SHOULD (especially when, in reality, you CAN’T).