So Susan set up a play date for me with one of her coworker's husband. (Yeah, I know I'm mixing the whole blind date/play date metaphor.) He's a guitarist that's been looking to start playing with people again, so Susan hooked us up.He came over to the house last night, and we jammed for a little while. I guess it went ok, but, man, I sure felt like a feeb at points. When he started going through songs to see what we knew in common, I had to pretty much say that I really don't know any songs, per se.Yeah, I've been taking lessons for a while, but the main focus of those has been to learn theory so that I can be a more flexible, improvisational player and not just pound out root and fifth. So that I could do things like knowing what to play over a given set of chord changes without having to know the specifics. And the songs that I have sort of learned, I've never really committed to memory since I've never had to play them with anyone, so I can get away with playing with the music in front of me.So he had to start out by outlining some songs and laying out the chord changes, but once he did that I could kinda fake it through the song, which shows that I've learned something over the last few years. Once we got past that, and he realised he had to outline the changes for me, things picked up. It was kinda fun, and I don't think I totally flopped. (I'm still not going out on any random auditions though.) So at some point we're going to get back together and try it again.At least this time it won't totally be a blind date.