Eric's House Of Ego

Don't Go Home
Woman I Want
Crank Generation
WYSIWYG
Trophy Wife

It was a pretty good, albiet spacy, set. I was ready to be done after WYSIWYG, but Pete, realizing that I was out of it, told me to do another song. He does that when I'm out of it.

Standards
Hand Above The Water
Need
How Can I Miss You?

I haven't done Need lately. It still needs some work, but it's getting there. I hadnt done Hand Above The Water in awhile. It went very well. The rest was the usual.

I stayed out late cause the Turkish guys were playing. They had a female singer with them this time and she added a lot. The harmonies were great. It was well worth staying up late for.

Now I crash.

Night all

I have been playing the mandolin with the squirrel every day. Things are moving along nicely.

I went the open jam today. I had a hard time since I was near the sound system they use so we can all hear the vocalists. I need to move to the other side of the circle the next time. I only led on one song. Only Coffee House In Town. I actually got everyone playing along. Other than that I just played guitar when my ears weren't screaming.

At Boheme, it was a ok set. I pushed myself a little too hard.

Only Coffee House In Town - It seems to be the usual opener now.
Standards - great version, nice and relaxed
Nice Guys - Ok, if a little unfocused
How Can I Miss You? - my working on low key stuff lately showed, it was a bit of a mess, but not as much of a mess as
Crank Generation - where I fell apart totally, much to the delight of the sunday boys ... it was fun ...

So it was a good night, and a pretty good weekend.

I'm tired now ... night

Three songs, since there weren't many performers.

Bang My Bald Spot - The best version of the patter ever.
Trophy Wife - Nice, there was this very cute girl right down front, and the end of the 2nd chorus hurt her, I mean really hurt her. In a good way though.
Crank Generation - Nice and relaxed again. It's back in the set again after a long retirement. Probably not for cons, since it's pretty darn brutal, but I think I need to do this more often.

Oddly enough I worked on serious stuff this afternoon. Worked on Jordan Cochrane and The One I Chased Away (it needs to get back in the set as well, I forgot how much I like that song)

I got cut short, but for good reason.

The open mike was running late, and the two guys before me and the guy after me were all new ... and very very good.

I am amazed at the quality of the performers at Boheme. It is so rare that someone just out and out sucks at the open mike (and it's usually me)

That said, I rushed through everything, but it was fun. I feel good for the first time in a few days, so that explains the rush.

Standards
Bang My Bald Spot
How Can I Miss You?

Minimal patter, which is another reason Pete cut me short I think. I am still a little out of it. A good end to the weekend.

My friend Tera is playing next week, I can't wait.

Oh, and I will be doing a show in Ames middle of January sometime at the tattoo parlor, most info when I get it.

Crank Generation
Only Coffee House In Town
Trophy Wife
Nice Guys
How Can I Miss You?
WYSIWYG

Everything ran very well, very smooth, no problems with my hands, even starting with a burner like Crank Generation. Two of the sunday boys spurred me on, the rest of the audience looked on slightly appalled (they liked it though).

I was going to be done after How Can I Miss You?, but Pete made me do one more. WYSIWYG was a little terse, but fun. The rest of the set went great.

I needed that

Only Coffee House In Town (the exhausted can't remember the chords version)
Almost Beautiful (the string slippage version)
Trophy Wife (the someone requested something dirty version)
Nice Guys (see almost beautiful)

The new bridge pegs are not working, they're going soon. I never go out of tune onstage, and I did twice in a 4 song set tonight.

Ok, it was a music weekend.

We went north to visit some relatives at their bowling alley.

One of the cousins is a musician, writes some songs, and is an excellent singer.

In the bar they have karaoke, and he will play some songs throughout the night. Last night I joined him and did two short sets. Now let me see if I remember what I played. Mostly the usual funny stuff.

Sitting around playing I did

Only Coffee House In Town
How Can I Miss You?

When we got set up to play through the system I played.

Standards
Hey Dad !!!
Color Of Your Eyes

Then later

Low Self Esteem
Bang My Bald Spot
and something else, I can't think of what at the moment

And tonight at Boheme I did mostly newer stuff. Not too well, but the songs are moving along

Only Coffee House In Town (nice with a few guitar bobbles)
Pine City Motel Blues (The middle section is still a mess, the rest went ok, but just ok)
Low Self Esteem (just cause I mentioned the benefit disc)
Nice Guys (messed up the final part, but it was ok)

There were two new guys this weekend. A guitar player and a guy with an old Micro-Moog.

They did some very cool, very tuneful stuff with great use of the synth. But more on them in the next post. Suffice it to say that they were the best thing I have seen there in some time. (and there has been a lot of great music lately)

Boheme was fun tonight. I did three songs..

I Want To Kill Everybody - (Ed Haynes) - A pretty good version.
Roman Wall Blues (Auden/Harvey) - A great version, looser than usual, and it drifted right into
Hides - (some geek in Iowa) - A great version, even if I didnt manage the triplets in the instrumental sections.

And the Turkish guys were back again. Brilliant stuff.

A great night. I'm going to bed now.

I took the martin out tonight. It was fun playing it out after a couple of years playing the Tak live.

Standards - good pace ... sped up a little, but it worked
Bang My Bald Spot - I premiered the new 4 verse version. No I didnt write a 4th verse, I just repeated the middle verse.
Almost Beautiful - A really nice version of it.
Woman I Want - lost the audience totally with this, still, played it well.

A nice night.

I think I am going back to the heavier pick, played with one the whole set and it was very comfy.