getting naked

a few days ago i went to hear a friend play. we used to play in a band together, when we used to have the time... now apparently we've gone different ways but both need a creative outlet. so when he invited me to hear him play i seized the opportunity.
what i always liked most to do when playing was to let a familiar melody play in the background and then to just play over it, for my own pleasure (although the fact that it was a saxophone that i was blowing into surely shared my enjoyment with the neighbors, too) anyway, this friend had apparently had similar visions of enjoyment (incidentally, enjoyment was the name of our band), and he got together with just one more person to do something like that - just to play over background music. guitar, keyboards and brasilectro. simplicity and pleasure.
the club was filled with obviously "friends&family" on that tuesday night, with free cachaca.
and there he was just playing the way we did in rehearsal. nothing special, but obviously rehearsed, but he was enjoying it. and that was it. that was all it was and that was what it was supposed to be. no greater ambitions, no waiting until you get "to that point" before exposing your "self" to the world. just doing it. getting naked.
it was inspirational!