Mirrored from the latest entry in Daron's Guitar Chronicles.

I was so on edge that moment before we stepped on the stage. And then we went out into the lights and… I know it’s a cliche to say it’s a different world. But it is. It’s like going into an aquarium, I think. From the outside everyone can see you, but as far as the fish is concerned, what’s in there is the entire world.

I don’t think I’ve done a good job of describing how energetic we are on stage. Remember the time Ziggy climbed the sound system in back to sing at the people sitting behind us? He wasn’t the only one who sometimes got on top of equipment or got creative with where he was going. I’ve been known to walk on the wall of the security pit like it was a balance beam or something, except at the time I didn’t have to think about keeping my balance. In fact, if I had thought about it, I probably would have fucked it up.

When you’re performing, so many parts of your brain are working simultaneously. I could think about one thing and be forgetting it at the same time.

At one point in the show at Garden State Arts I jumped up, which wasn’t unusual at all. What was unusual was how hard I landed. I don’t know if the stage was uneven in that one spot or what, but I landed so hard my ankle went numb. I don’t think I actually turned my ankle but maybe I did. At the time it just felt like a jolt of pins and needles, and then I limped for the rest of the song.