Let me give a clearer explanation on the things I said about Time Spent in Los Angeles…
The original key of TSLA is D#, which means I used a capo on the first fret. For the non-guitar players - a capo is something that holds down the strings anywhere on the neck, so that what are now your open strings are in new positions (Oof, I don’t think there’s an easy way of explaining that without using dumb theory terms. Hopefully what I said makes enough sense for this tiny story).
Anyway - TSLA - key of D#. And we played it that way for years. But reaching for the capo would sometimes disrupt the flow of the show or make it a little tougher for me to bang into whatever was coming up next, so eventually we took the capo off. Now we (almost, I guess) always play it in the key of D, which means without a capo.
But Right On Time is always played with a capo on the second fret in the key of A. So without getting bogged down talking about that one, here’s why it’s relevant - we played TSLA and Right On Time right next to each other in Greenville, and knowing Right On Time was going to have a capo short circuited my brain and sent me back like 4-5 years and made me think we still play TSLA with a capo too. So I put it on and went right into it. Then the band members saw I was playing a half step away from the key they expected but from where I was standing it took them .5 seconds to adjust to the new key, keeping it from ruining the song for the audience. No small feat imo.
For the guitar nerds out there - you know what I’m talking about. For everyone else, I hope that was slightly intelligible and not the most boring thing you ever read.
For the paying subscribers - here’s (a 7 and a half minute) Most People live from Greenville with some jibber jabber about the TSLA incident, hence this explication…