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I just got back from doing an open mic night at a bar on 4th and Girard in Philly and it was a trip. For those who don't know, it was my first time ever singing and playing acoustic in front of any kind of audience. Most of the musicians there were doing typical singer/songwriter stuff and taking it all seriously (though there were certainly a couple odd ones mixed in, including some guy singing incredibly manic political-type stuff), and here I was doing these quirky tossoff novelty songs that lasted around 30-90 seconds like "Chomping At Dennis", "Polar Bear Rock", "Xavier Stole My Wallet", etc.

From what a couple of my friends were telling me, it seemed like it fired part of the crowd up and apparently ticked off the other part, a sure sign that I may be on to something. The best thing, though, was that one of my friends actually recorded my performance (as well as his own), and I should be getting access to the MP3s very soon. So you guys should actually be able to hear an Forum member go crazy in live acoustic mode. I'll write a lot more about this in my LiveJournal later on - it was quite a night.

EDIT: I've now created a separate profile on Myspacefor my music, which includes the first two songs I played last night on acoustic, plus two others I recorded last year.

http://www.myspace.com/physicalillusion

Way to go, Egg! I know this is something you've been wanting for awhile.... See? It wasn't so bad, was it?

*goes off to listen to the music*

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It wasn't so bad once I got up there, but maaaan I wish I could sing decently. You all can be honest about my vocal non-talent - that's why I put an instrumental up there as the last song.

I got a real kick out of listening to you sing those songs.
Those are really cool. I really like Chomping at Dennis. And Polar Bear Rock, and all of them, I suppose.

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Yay, EGG!

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Yay! Yay! Yay! I wish I could do an open mic night... Shoot, I wish I could get into a bar in general. And I also wish I could understand more of what you were saying. And I wish I could play guitar as well as you. wOOt!

Thanks, but I'm really not all that good at playing guitar yet - I'm much better at keyboards, but there's no way I'm dragging my 88 key monstrosity into a Philly bar. I really only know your basic major and minor chords and a few barre chords, and I basically just play random crap when it comes to solos and countermelodies.

As far as the vocals go, that's a work in progress, particularly concerning the songs I did last year. I'm somewhat iffy about trying to sing around anyone in my house, so I often do it quietly on my recordings or use vocal effects - I've never really gotten to develop a vocal style the way I've wanted to. So the result is ehhh.

Props to anyone who actually listened to this crap!