Originally Posted by ThePhanastasio

I do solo stuff, which is terrifying. I've been playing a little bit in a garage jamming with some other musicians, but my live performance has been all me.

Probably the worst was a set in which I seriously got so tense, I decided to replace some of my more complex songs with some really easy songs I knew, because I was super-tense.

One of the songs I replaced a harder song with was VERY simple: The only chords in the song were Am, C, F, G. It was easily the simplest song I was going to play.

Things didn't go tragically awry - I was, however, for some reason unable to play the easy song...because I kept forgetting the lyrics. My hands were shaking so badly that the change from Am to C kept being weird, and I kept just singing the weirdest lyrics to the general tune of the song to cover. At one point, the lyrics became: "I'm on stage and can't play guitar / I'm onstage and my feet are asleep / I can't remember lyrics, I'll go far... / duh-duh-duh, lightning to strike."

It was nerve-wracking. My friends were kind and said they didn't even notice...because I just kept playing anyway...but I don't believe them.