Originally Posted By: VideoTrack
Good points Mac. Will take them on board.

I recall the one annoying thing that happened to me time and again while I was playing piano on stage is that a guest would come up, introduce themselves and then want to shake hands. It doesn't seem to occur to them that the music stops while the formalities take place!

Regards

Trevor


YES!

I have had that happen, also there seem to be an inordinate number of folks who want to engage me in conversation while I am *performing*!

For some reason, their perception is that, since there is a laptop up there, the performer must be able to have a conversation while performing.

Most of the people who do that, I've noticed, are men.

And - it is all but impossible to extricate from that situation without invoking their anger or wrath about it.

Explanations be damned, they view it as if the performer had just snubbed them or worse.

Funny thing, they would never interrupt like that if they don't see the computer...

When performing live with BiaB, I always have a few totally unaccompanied piano things to salt the set with. A Ballad, or sometimes I just play a song and sing it at the same time with just the instrument I am using for the gig, piano or guitar, as accompaniment. This is a good thing to do, to prepare some of those and use them. Not only for the reasons of this discussion about audience perceptions -- it can come in handy to always have those memorized unaccompanied performances at the ready for those times when you may have to reboot the computer onstage or something just goes awry with the laptop or the programs. Allows for a graceful exit from the set and the venue owners won't view at as being cheated out of set time as well.


--Mac

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