If I understand what AB and screendude(that's a cool name) said... "I'm more distracted by the other instruments than the rest of the people watching" I think I had or went through that before. More specifically, one's playing and struggling w/ the lead distracts me and my concentration level (or comfort level with what I was doing) drops and still does but, my knee-jerk reaction to that is work some runs into the rythmn (be careful though...
it's got me into trouble because my rythmn "walking" has been accused:angry: of being a lead). It'll help keep the song going anyway...