Sorry to take to long to do this. I had the meeting day from Hell yesterday: big name in medical community on disability and then the Minister and his Deputy on disability.
So Wednesday night at Babba’s? It went pretty cool. The guitar / man / synthesizer interaction was a little rough on the first song, Mean Hearted Woman which has a Hootchie Cootchie Man thing going. I was using the hold pedal for the slide from E to G to A. Thought it would sound great – sucked big time.
Audience feedback was solicited and it came. Ivan told me later it was jarring on his ears. OK. Andrea said it sounded noisy. Lucky I dropped the Hold thingy half way through the song.
Disability Support Blues went great. Got several nods afterward on that one. Ryan came in the door in the middle of the song so I called him up. He tuned up and away we went into Dylan’s Is Your Love in Vain. I am changing organ synths on each song and this one is a retro 60’s sound with finger picking. Ryan was awesome. He is a great guitarist. Sounded cool.
The last song was Your Song a slow love ballad I wrote and my best song yet, I think. It was supposed to have strings. Edith said ‘Where were the strings?’ so I guess not enough strings.
Overall, people were pretty enthusiastic. Lots of high 5’s. Andrea said it was cool but didn’t sound as good as my regular guitars. Granted.
I won’t do it every week, but I will do it again.
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