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Post by billhammond on Oct 30, 2014 17:29:59 GMT -5
If you reported on it, I missed it.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2014 17:41:13 GMT -5
Took my reso and played two of them. One was in my late mother's hometown of Hemel Hempstead in a place called Olly's Bar. I did ok, but it was one of those open mikes where the musicians outnumber the patrons, and some of the musicians were odd characters. The next night, I played at a place called The Boot in St. Albans and killed. Big crowd, and they loved me so much that the host let me play extra and I even got an encore and sold a record. Cool pub. The place has been a public house since 1420. It's even older than the Ginkgo. The host emailed me the next day and said when I come back, let him know and he'll give me a longer set.
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Post by billhammond on Oct 30, 2014 17:49:29 GMT -5
Took my reso and played two of them. One was in my late mother's hometown of Hemel Hempstead in a place called Olly's Bar. I did ok, but it was one of those open mikes where the musicians outnumber the patrons, and some of the musicians were odd characters. The next night, I played at a place called The Boot in St. Albans and killed. Big crowd, and they loved me so much that the host let me play extra and I even got an encore and sold a record. Cool pub. The place has been a public house since 1420. It's even older than the Ginkgo. The host emailed me the next day and said when I come back, let him know and he'll give me a longer set. Wow, good show, guv'nor. |
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Post by Doug on Oct 30, 2014 18:22:28 GMT -5
Way to go David. Maybe you can be like Slim Whitman, late night TV in the US and a star in Europe.  |
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Post by Village Idiot on Oct 30, 2014 21:44:03 GMT -5
Sounds great, David. There's a reason why people like Tom Paxton and Nanci Griffith were accepted so much more here than there. Read up on some weird history of Hemel Hempstead, come back and sing them their story.
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Post by dradtke on Oct 30, 2014 22:24:00 GMT -5
Hey, cool!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2014 2:13:21 GMT -5
Already wrote one song based on one of my great aunts ("The Ballad of Katie Ambrise," in the songwriting section) and may come up with more. Next time I go, if I have enough lead time, I might try to set up a gig or two. I'd like to take my Schwab instead of the reso. Neither of them have a pickup in them. The Epiphone IB'64 Texan would've been perfect, but I farmed it out to a friend for safekeeping while I'm abroad after learning it would cost around $900 to ship it.
They were fun shows and I met some interesting folks. Of course with my voice, it helps when the audience is tanked up on Guinness.
At The Boot open mic, it helped that the guy before me had zero stage presence and tried doing mellow folkie stuff in a bar. He was one of those sensitive-guy-closes-his-eyes-during-his-whole-set players. His stuff wasn't bad, but that wasn't the room for it. He lost them on his first song and never got them back. I opened with "Industrial Boulevard," a song I wrote about a contemporary of Bonnie and Clyde. The first line is, "I rode with Clyde Barrow and that bitch Bonnie Parker" and I had them at the word "bitch" and never lost them. "Know the room," I always say.
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