That was fun

[ericcoleman]

I went to the Ritual Cafe open mike tonight. I decided to stick to serious songs. It worked out very nicely. I did

Ghosts - with the very wonderful Kyle Dean Patten on harmonica. More on him in a moment
Color Of Your Eyes - Nice relaxed version
Hides - A little abrupt, but nice.

Later on I had another short turn, at this point there was no one but musicians and employees of the place left. I started playing In Crosby Park and Kyle got an evil smile and pulled out a penny whistle. I gave up singing the song and he and I just played around it for a couple minutes. I asked him what it would take to get him on the CD when I record this. His reply

"a phone call"

cool ...

So how was your saturday ???

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[freeimprov.livejournal.com]

I spent part of the day looking at vintage ukeleles with Tristan. He's actually playing the uke I bought him pretty industriously, so I took him to Willie's Guitar Recycling American Guitars, which has an outstanding (and mostly not for sale) collection of vintage ukeleles. I let him know that if he sticks with the uke and gets decent at it, I'll gladly buy him a nice one, vintage or otherwise.

While I was there, I tried out a couple of amps, since I'm looking for a little five watt Champ type for practice, recording, and playing lap steel. He was grumbling that they were too loud. Meanwhile, the staff was trying to bring a vintage Marshall half-stack to life. When they finally fired it up, I told him, "Now THAT is a loud amp!", and played a few notes to point out that we couldn't even HEAR the little Champ I was playing over the Marshall.

Tonight, I got a song recorded and up on Myspace, but I'm borderline ashamed of my guitar playing on it. :( Next time you talk to me, feel free to ask me if I've re-recorded it yet.