Congratulations, Jeff! That’s great news and I’m happy for you!
You can be so proud on yourself for stepping out of your bedroom to play in front and especially WITH others. It’s so much of a difference and even though we all are aware of that, we cannot truly prepare for that step. It will accelerate your musicianship a lot, I’m sure. And it will be sooo much fun.
Hopefully, you will share a little more of that journey with us here. It’s always interesting to see how others develop and seeing people making music is always reciprocating the joy - at least for me.
So keep my fingers crossed for your and your band to find some good gigs in the future and see, where this journey will lead you!