Last night I got a chance to play with Aaron Shust.  Definitely one of the coolest things I've ever gotten to do!  Let me explain a little bit:

A couple of weeks ago, Aaron posted a YouTube video with a very simple contest: each night of his current tour, he's pulling one person up to play "Matchless".  All you had to do to enter was record a video of yourself playing the song, post it on YouTube, and leave a comment for Aaron to check it out.  24 hours before the show, he picks somebody, comments on their entry, and you're in!  I hadn't originally planned on doing it (because the closest show was a solid 6 1/2 hours away from Columbus), but once I realized that nobody had entered yet for that date, I went ahead and put a video up.

Long story short... I did get to play.  I left Columbus at 9:00 yesterday morning, picked my dad up in Wheeling around noon, and made it to Watsontown, PA by 5:30.  We got to go to the pre-show meet & greet and acoustic concert, so I did meet Aaron before the show, but there was no sound check, no rehearsal.  He just called me up when it was time for the tune.  Made it back to Westerville right at 4 AM and grabbed a couple of hours of sleep before church.  Definitely worth it, though!  A great experience all around.

Here's the video... the audio is pretty bad.  I always swore I'd never be one of those people uploading concert video that sounds like this, but since I'm actually in this one, I'm going to make an exception!