Tuesday Night before Christmas 2020 (c) 2021 February

 

Tuesday Night before Christmas 2020

 

You play bad enough, stay gone awhile, come back able to work around some basic chords people notice you, well, notice me. Yea you probably have more sense than to come back to a place to play after you sucked so bad that everyone left.

The jam tonight, should be the standard thing. Only me, and a couple musicians, that I’ve seen here before, and I’ve seen em in the openmic loop in Ocean Springs. The open mic loop in Ocean Springs is The Julep Room, The Field, and The Grocery. The Grocery hasn’t opened back up sense Covid started.

 

Well, I finally got over wearing ‘…sunglasses at night.’ Corey Hart reference. I’d wear glasses, so that I couldn’t see the crowd. On most openmic stages, the lighting is dim. Then again, I do still have the capacity for Majickal thinking: If I don’t wear the glasses someone, and or many, in the audience, might steal my soul by piercing my windows to the soul-Naw just joking.

Done this assortment of songs, feels like over, a hundred times. The David Bowie’s “Heroes,” combine it with my song “With Out You” then go into “Slow down and let somebody love you.” But tonight I’ll do a different variation, I’ll go into a couple versus from Oasis, “Stop Crying Your Heart Out,” Then go through all of “Without you” add a couple lines from “Slow down and let somebody love you.” Then conclude on “Heroes” last verse. That should carry me between fifteen to twenty minutes. With these set songs, I know exactly what I sound like. And if I have a couple minutes left I’ll go into “Jingle Bells” the version that BossQueen had me learn.

About ten minutes into my set, about ten people walked in. Okay, it is kewl. I’ll have someone come up after me. I have my self on record through my camera. Damn I really hope that I do not empty the whole bar out again. Surely, someone has got a slot after me. Well, I got the strumming, aka the stroke, rather good for “Jingle Bells.” This is that opportunity that I wrote about kind of. The writing when I wrote about when the host did not want me to play. Then when I did play the audience really dug it.

A few seconds left. Oh no, I can’t see to the back exit. This place is too full for me to see the back exit.

I started the strum. Then I did it the way BossQueen instructed me to.

Then I followed with my original “Make something Beautiful out of Something so Broken.” The audience gave me a standing ovation.

This was the moment that I do this for. The moment that does not come too often. But comes more often than it used to.