On any given night, many things can and will go wrong. Where do I start? During the set, a microphone may fall down, or a cymbal stand might vibrate off the riser. At an outdoor show, a strong wind could blow your floor tom or ride cymbal over. Cymbals crack; drumheads pop; drumsticks break; the coils on the bottom of the snare drum snap; batteries on in-ear monitor packs die; curtains don’t go up; risers get stuck; musicians space-out; sequencers shut down. All sorts of things can go wrong. All the electricity can go out on stage. That actually happened quite recently at an outdoor concert with Beto Cuevas. The entire stage went black, so we just kept the crowd clapping as the crew hurried to power up a back-up generator. If you sit there and expect every show to run perfectly, you’ll be sorely disappointed. I think the goal is to shoot for a perfect show, while at the same time, accept and anticipate all the chaos that could happen. In retrospect, the craziest shows seem to be the funniest, most memorable ones.