Hey man. That was really fine, expressive, accurate playing!! I'm a guy who is a multi-keyboard guy and NOT a true piano player, and I was impressed. When you want string parts, organ on one hand and horns on the other.... I think of myself as a supporting keyboard player. But to sit at a piano in a room full of people and serenading them, nope. Not the guy. I did it once for a guy who owned a few restaurants where my band played. I was eating dinner at one of them with my girlfriend de jour and his piano player was in a car accident on his way to play the 5-7 happy hour thing. He asked if I could give him an hour. I told him I'd give it a shot. So I finished dinner and sat down at his piano. I did a 70 minute set, about 40 of which was comedy. This place was a lot of lawyers who came down and got trashed after work. He set out a big brandy snifter and started the tips with 3 10s and 4 5s. I started with Sunny Side Of The Street, which I COULD play well enough to sing along with it. Then I started doing schtick and they ate it up. One extremely drunk woman came up asking for Moonlight in Vermont. I said "Hmmm. I don't know if I know that one." as I pushed the tip jar closer to her. I asked her "You know who wrote that?" to which she said "no". (Nobody does. It was some guy from Ohio who may have never written another song.) I pushed the jar a little closer to her and she dropped a 20 in it and I broke out into "Pennies in a stream. Fallen leaves - a sycamore..." I did 2 verses and stopped. But I had her 20!!! LOL!!! At one point I spotted a family with an adorable little girl about 6 and I invited dad to bring her up. He sat her on the piano and I told her that she would be my inspiration for the next song. I did some intro I made up on the spot and went into Misty. And as I sang "Look at me..." I looked at her and growled "Hey! I said look at me!" and everybody laughed and I went through the song. For that 70 minutes of more humor than music, I made over 200 bucks in tips, the guy paid me 100 and bought my dinner. Which in that place was about $80-85 for 2 of us. Then I dropped her off at home and went to the guy's other place where my band was playing that night. I had a good time doing that, but that calls for a MUCH better player than I was even then when I played every day. Like you could do that kind of thing and clean up in tips. All I have in me now is songwriter night playing my 3 songs with backing tracks. LOL!!

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