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I have three songs ready to go, but it has been a long time since I have played an open mic (3+ years), so who knows how I will react and what mistakes I will make (and can I show no reaction to mistakes and just keep going?).
I did a short (5 song) streetjelly yesterday and will do one at lunchtime today to try a duplicate some of the environment that you have to keep going.
To be honest, I am confident that I know the songs, but I still make the random mistake here and there due to a loss of concentration (..."All his life has he looked away, to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was, hmm?" -- yoda)
I'll let you know how it goes. I have open mic opportunities tonight and next Wednesday -- but then FAWM.org starts February 1st!
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What time today on street jelly?
Chad (Hope that makes it easier)
TEMPO TANTRUM: What a lead singer has when they can't stay in time.
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12 noon eastern time. I might do the three songs twice. Or if people are viewing, I'll probably not repeat any song.
Feel free to give constructive criticism if you end up watching. Maybe do the criticism here since SJ likes to keep things uber-positive.
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You were the person who originally mentioned SJ here on the forum, weren't you? Good to see you getting involved again!
FWIW, I have that concentration thing too... and I never see it coming until the train has crashed. I can know a song note for note, but if my attention gets fixed on any other life detail, even for a moment, I can't pry it away quickly enough to keep the flow from breaking down.
But, what's a curse to the man on stage can be a blessing to the man in the studio, as a whimsical mind can lead to some pretty creative places. Unfortunately, once I've found those places, unless I write it down, I can't ever find my way back. ;-)
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Do my best to catch you on Da jelly today Kevin!
later,
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Will you be available after the show for autographs? Pat is a bit of a "Fan Boy" that's why I'm asking 
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TEMPO TANTRUM: What a lead singer has when they can't stay in time.
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Pat: Yea I was early for BIAB users, but I got out of it for FAWM and never really did it anymore.
Danny: Don't blink, it will be a sub 10 minute performance!
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Wow Kevin! That was great! I love Americana and you did it justice! You are a hook machine!
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TEMPO TANTRUM: What a lead singer has when they can't stay in time.
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I blinked, got in too late.
Next Time!
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I blinked, got in too late.
Next Time!
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I might do the three songs twice. Reminded me of a band I was in once upon a time. We were new.... like seriously new. But, we heard about a battle of the bands and decided "what the heck".... lets get in. The winner got to open the show for Whispering Bill Anderson when he was actually still getting airplay. So we went to the BOTBS and played 3 songs. A brand new one called Lukenbach Texas... it was still climbing the charts at that time... and 2 other country tunes. Imagine our surprise when they announced the winners.... US!!! So we were told to come back the next day and we would be playing 5 songs to open for Bill. That was perfect because we only knew 5 songs....like I said we were a brand new band. One of those tunes was an original I had written with the other guitar player just a few nights previous. So... we showed up and they put us on to open the show.... the place was freaking ..... empty. There might have been a hundred people in a place that could easily hold 2000. Bill's bus was parked behind the stage where he could see the arena seating area. We played all 5 songs and thanked the folks and left the stage..... Bill's manager tells us, Bill wasn't ready yet and we should play some more songs... Bill wanted to let more people get there. We were looking at the gates... no lines there of people coming to the show.....and we had already played everything we knew.... we told him so... he told us, go play and repeat the songs if you have to. So we did.... I think we played everything 2 times and stretched the heck out of the solo's and jammed a bit, added repeated verses and choruses..... finally, in desperation, we told the guy, we didn't know any thing else and were not going to repeat the songs again. Bill came out seriously late.... I think he was drinking a bit and that's the real reason he was late. He had a killer back up band that could sing harmony like the angels in heaven. I'll never forget their version of The door is always open and that band bailed us out.... they played a good 45 minute set before Bill came on. A club manager was at that show and booked us for a weekend gig the following weekend. We busted butt to learn enough music to do the 3 hrs of music at the club.....yeah, we somehow managed to pull it off. Oh yeah.... one more thing.... neither the battle of the bands nor the show opener paid any money at all.... good exposure they said. Anyway, good memories.
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Concentration. Don't read the messages on Streetjelly whilst playing or try to speak to people on while playing or you fall in a heap. I did a streetjelly show last night (here) (about 6 or 7 am in the USA) expecting it to be unobserved as I was checking out using a LAN cable to improve the connection and practicing doing stuff from memory and ended up with a fair crowd listening. You never, never know.:-)
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Thanks for all the support! It went fine, no noticeable blunders. The other open mic'ers were pretty good. It was lightly attended, but I suspected that the weather threat would knock most folks out (nothing materialized, of course). Also met a few nice folks. One even has his own recording studio in his house and is former pro studio recorder until he got into beer making!
I asked one of the guys how the enunciation was and he said it was fine, although the vocals weren't louder than the guitar (he also said that the sound mix improved as the night went on). It sounded just right to me on stage, but I also think my mic technique still needs more practice -- this was also expected, it takes time and effort to learn to sing into the mic on every word!
Overall a mighty fine experience. I will do next week's open mic and then, well, FAWM.org starts so I will only be working on new stuff in February.
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