David Senra

Sure I was.

I think you have to be to do anything important.

Bruce Springsteen is the exact same age when he says we were cocky as hell and sure we were good enough to make our mark anywhere.

We felt we were the best undiscovered thing we'd ever seen.

And so a very important thing happens.

We're dominating this like little section in the East on the East coast.

We're going to go to California and hit it big.

And so they go to California, they start doing auditions and they realize there's other bands, undiscovered bands better than them.

And so after losing, he goes and tries to go to sleep and he lays awake at night.

And this is what he's thinking.

They were better than us, and I hadn't seen anybody, certainly anybody who was still unknown that was better than us, better than me in a long time.

The guy doing the booking was right.

My confidence was mildly shaken, and I had to make room for a rather unpleasant thought.

We were not going to be the big dogs we were back in our little hometown.

We were going to be one of many very competent, very creative musical groups fighting over a very small bone.

Reality check.

I was good, very good, but maybe not quite as good or as exceptional as I'd gotten used to people telling me or as I thought.

Right here in this city, there were guys who in their own right were as good or better.

That hadn't happened in a long while, and it was going to take some mental realignment.

And his response here was so important.