After several years of playing guitar in my living room and bedrooms, I finally summoned up the courage to jam with other musicians when I received an invite from The Catastrophically Bad Amateur Musicians of Tampa Bay. Actually, they are pretty damn good, and you become better by playing with such musicians. BTW, the drummer, also named Steve, was in the same Tampa writers group as I was, but we lost touch during COVID. Hey, if Johnny Depp could play with the incomparable Jeff Beck, there’s hope for me