Did another open mic last night at another place. It goes from 9pm-11pm which sort of cuts into my bedtime!! (ha, ha).
Quick thoughts:
1.) I did fine, no real mistakes or nerves of any sort. My songs are just fine, in an average kind of way. Sort of like MAB says "Nothing wrong with them, but ..."
2.) I am not really hyped up about performing, it is just a thing I need to do to get a feel for which songs work and which ones need more work!
3.) Of course I am not a natural or "dynamic" performer, so that's that.
4.) I call last night "The night of long songs!". I can do my 3 songs in 8 minutes, but some of these folks' songs go on for frickin' evah! Just when you want to applaud because you're happy the song is over, here comes another verse!!! Ha, the MC even went up after someone's 2nd song because he said he lost track (you get three tunes).
5.) Someone played an ovation -- I hate ovation guitars, they always seem to have the worst tonal quality -- very, very harsh. I remember even watching Glen Campbell's performance on TV and I always thought "Man, that guitar sounds awful" (and he is a mighty fine guitar player).
5.) Someone played an ovation -- I hate ovation guitars, they always seem to have the worst tonal quality -- very, very harsh. I remember even watching Glen Campbell's performance on TV and I always thought "Man, that guitar sounds awful" (and he is a mighty fine guitar player).
6.) Some folks came in at 10-10:15pm and signed up. I left before they played. I will stay for everyone at an open mic if I play, but I didn't feel under any obligation to stay for them since they came after most had played.
7.) The host was quite good, a girl who played had a fine voice and wrote songs of a very reasonable length ... and everyone else was too long.
8.) But I did enthusiastically clap for every song. You gotta support folks who get up there and do it.
That's it for now. 9 pm is too late, so I am going to an open mic tonight that runs from 6pm - 8pm.
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