Update

A friend wrote me this morning and reminded me that it had been a month since I had blogged. Sure is a gar cry from my original idea of 3 or 4 blogs a week. Anyway, felt I should check in with anyone out there (and my site meter suggests that there are a few of you).

I finally stumbled into a gig a couple of weeks ago. I was out having a drink with some people from work at the U of M Leaning Tower of pizza when I saw that they had an acoustic night on Sunday nights. They booked me on the spot with the promise of free drinks and a stage. I am not sure what to expect out of myself or the venue. I have never seen or played a show at Leaning Tower but the manager said that they have a pretty good PA system which is good. Of course a good PA is a relative thing. For some places, just having a PA equals having a good PA. Either way, if I suck, I am sure to blame it on the PA system.

I am not sure what to expect from myself because I haven’t played a show in well over a year. Also I am going to try and play different covers than I used to and different versions of the old songs. Right now I am feeling quite intimidated by the entire thing. Unlike my older songs, a lot of the songs on the new record were written with full instrumentation in mind. Consequently I have spent a lot of practice time deconstructing them and making them playable as solo acoustic songs.

In addition, I am trying to scramble and get the record (which is as of now unnamed because it was brought to my attention that Death and Taxes is “cliché and stupid”) done by the 12^th so I can hand it out at the show. I have decided that I am going to give them away to anyone who comes to the show in an effort to get them out there. They cost $3 to produce but the potential long term benefits or getting my music in the hands of others outweigh the financial loss.

specific information on the show