Playing at an Open Mic night

[AggieDave 6]

Yup, *finally* after some friends of mine have been on me for the past 6 months to go play an open mic night, I'm going to do it.

Kinda funny, though, I've been a performing musician for a bit over 10 years playing solos for as many as 20,000 people on the marching field, but I've never tried to do it for real, alone just me and a guitar...so I'm a bit nervous.

Doubly so since I'm going to play some songs that I've written, and more importantly, this is the night that I'm going to play "I Will Remember" the Bonfire rememberance song I wrote, to people who there with me. The only people that have heard it thus far are some friends of mine that weren't at A&M during that, so now I'll have a real audience of true judges.

So...wish me luck, I'll let everyone know how it went.

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[Zeemax 0]

Major vibes AD.. i know about that shit, well the other side of it anyway. I'm a radio producer and so am very caught up in the whole music industry.

It takes big steel balls to perform solo.

The best of luck to you and make sure you get the engineer to record you a desk feed

Also, this will be a beer performance no doubt?

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[AggieDave 6]

Sorta a beer performance, since I did play with a mic and my guitar at the boogie, but that was a song another jumper wrote a long time ago about dating the riggers wife (one hell of a song, btw)...so yeah, I guess it would be a beer performance for the first mic-ed performace of a song I wrote.

I don't think I can get a recording of it...its a bar in town and basically they just have a PA setup without any sound guys really. Not as bad as that sounds, but not as good as it could be either.

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[Kramer 0]

Dave-

I do stand-up comedy in front of crowds. I'd rather jump out of a plane, I get WAY nervous going up on stage!

Good luck though, I'm sure you'll do fine...after all, you are AggieDave!

-Kramer

The FAKE KRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMER!!!!!!!!!

[turtlespeed 226]

Break a leg!

I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
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[Zeemax 0]

If theres a pa there has to be a mixer type feed somewhere.

Do you know about mixers and stuff, guess you do if your into your live music.

If not give us a shout i'll tell you what to look out for. Do you have MD walkman or anything? just take it down and find an output on the desk, get it ready to record and roberts your mothers brother

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[turtlespeed 226]

umm, some one please explain the expression
"Bob's your Uncle"
Please.

I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun

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[AggieDave 6]

Yeah, I wish I had a MD...that would make my life soooo much easier.

I'll see what I can dig up from some friends before tonight.

As for now, I'm off to the DZ.

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[Zeemax 0]

if id known earlier i could have lent you mine

do you have anything that you can record on? the engineer may, but its always better to bring your own, that way theres no hassle and your more likely to get them to do it...


VIBES anyway

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[pds 0]

and just when it hit me somebody turned around and shouted...

have fun and remember what miles said.... 'it's all about the bitches man, all about the bitches'.

namaste, motherfucker.

[firediver 0]

Vibes to ya bro...been there...believe me, you'll love it. Everyone at an open mic knows the deal...people are there getting their chops down....this isn't a crowd that paid $50 a seat. Everyone appreciates the efforts of everyone else...just groove with it...

of course, I play bass, so i don't really care about you 6 string prima donnas anyway..

Skydiving isn't scary;...but clowns...CLOWNS are scary!

[Zeemax 0]

i play piano....

anyone fancy a DZ.com band??

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[Snowwhite 0]

Cool, really enjoy what you are doing, just like you do when you play at home. Don't worry about what anyone else is thinking, just play to you, and it will go really well. Oh yea, and look over their heads if you look at the audience, they will think that you are making eye contact with them, but it doesn't make you nearly as nervous as actual eye contact does. Don't do the 'imagine them in their underwear' thing, that will just make you laugh when you see how weird they all are.....

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[AggieDave 6]

Just got back. It went pretty good, only screwed up a little bit in my playing.

Come to find out, I wasn't quite close enough to the mic/the mic wasn't up enough, so sometimes my lyrics got drowned out by my playing, BUT that may have been a good thing...

Well, I'm going to do it again soon, since I did have fun, but I want to write some new songs to play next time, since the handful I have now would get old if I played them everytime.

I've got to get this down, so I can play in the DZ.com band in Eloy.

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[katiebear21 0]

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I've got to get this down, so I can play in the DZ.com band in Eloy.

Can't wait to gather around the campfire and listen to you guys again! Maybe we can keep Sky and Chuck (Wendy won't be there so I left her out) out of the fire this year!

Katie
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[pds 0]

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Maybe we can keep Sky and Chuck (Wendy won't be there so I left her out) out of the fire this year!

hmmmmmmmm........

namaste, motherfucker.

[Zeemax 0]

well done dave
You should get a portable recorder like an MD or something. Its good to have a record of when you play so you can listen back to it, work out what happend then change any bits that need it!

Most MD recorders come with a little stero mic, just put it near the PA so you pick up your playing and the audience's reaction. You'd be suprised the quality you can get.


Theres already a DZ.com band? can i audition?

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[manifestbitch 0]

woo hoo! Dave owes beer!
seriously, you did a great job. Let me know when you're playing again, i'll be there for sure. I'm so glad you're doing this Dave, you're going to have a lot of fun. btw, morgan and i agree, you look damn good up there!