Well, tonight was one of those strange rewarding, but still frustrating nights. I got a call from a friend in Gainesville who said there was an open mic tonight at a pizza place and wanted to know if I was going. My first response was, "probably not." But my wife overheard my half of the conversation and said I should go and get out of the house. So, I listened to her and decided to go. Then, I spent about an hour going over several songs I thought I knew, and I thought I was ready. Then it was my turn. The very first song!! It is a bluesy A,A,B,A,A format. I got through the first and second verse OK. and got half way through the bridge and suddenly got lost. THEN, I totally lost it for verse 3 and 4. Just played through the chords and sort of finished with some of the 4th verse lyrics. The next 2 or 3 songs went very well. No lyric mistakes and mostly right on with chord progressions (which I've learned can be fudged a little). Then I asked the host if I had one more and he said yes. I should have just quit while I was ahead. When I was talking to the host, I felt like my voice was kind of "freezing up". But I went ahead and [tried] the next song. I had to sing most of it in a horse kind of voice, almost hitting the notes. Luckily, the higher notes I could somehow get. It was the mid and lower range notes I had to try and keep a horse kind of vocal. But, I managed to struggle through it. And MAB, I'm kind of embarrassed to say, that last song I decided to do was, "Bored Games", one of my favorite songs to do at open mic's. I've never had that happen before. First time for everything I guess. LOL
phil g.