Saturday, August 12, 2006

A Worship Leader's Worst Nightmare

See the mighty worship leader.

He prowls around the stage like a ferocious beast. He sees an unsuspecting worship song lurking on the music stand. The mighty worship leader bares his teeth, hunkers down and gets ready to pounce.

The mighty worship leader starts the song, forgetting that he has not removed his capo from his guitar. He begins the song, unsure of why it sounds so different. As he starts, the song is too high for him, yet he continues on. After all, he is the mighty worship leader. He is leading by himself at this point - just his voice and his guitar.

The pre-chorus comes much too quickly, however, and the scrumptious prized worship song is yanked from the mighty worship leader's jaws. At this point, the rest of the band comes in, all in the key that the song is supposed to be in. The mighty worship leader is defeated as the two keys collide. Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together - mass hysteria.

Behold how the mighty worship leader has fallen.

(to find out what in the world I'm talking about, go here and laugh yourself silly.)

5 comments:

darker than silence said...

I love it when the rest of the band comes in. A-mazing.

Mike said...

Wow. I remember playing with someone (not you) at SW and he put the capo in the wrong spot....that sux for everyone involved...when i was listening to this, i just felt bad for the whole band. most "non-music" people don't hear our mistakes very often but this one was a train wreck. I wonder what the congregation thought.

Dave Harriff said...

wow, that sucks, and it's hilarious, but I think everyone should have at least one experience like that now and then.

tenahawkins said...

OHHHHH MYYYYYY! That would really bite! Honestly I think I would just start laughing, stop, chalk it up to human failure w/humor and start over. Things like that can't be recovered unless you've discussed with the band ahead of time that in case something like that happens, they just drop out and you let the leader and his guitar lead.

Although, I have to say that we've probably all experienced this somewhere along the way with praise bands/bands. Try starting a song out on the wrong note vocally while the band is playing. Yea, not funny :0). Just kidding and it led to a quick recovery. You just have to laugh and move on cause no ones perfect. God loves to get His dry sense of humor in there sometimes.

Rochelle said...

That's funny..painful to listen to though :) I'm glad that wasn't you :)