Well...
I'm not entirely pleased about tonight. The camera didn't really bother me, other than adding about 100 degrees to the area that I'm in. As soon as I walked in, I was handed several requests. Plus, the owner asked me to do a good amount of Xmas music tonight. Which I did. My sound was ok, my vocals felt fine but my hands felt like I was wearing mittens or something, lol...
Nothing catastophic mind you but my first set was the sloppiest I've played with regard to the keyboard in sometime. Screwing up glissandos, I muffed at least two different chord extenions in my higher RH region, just bullshit that I don't screw up in my sleep.
The crowd was enjoying it but they were freaked out by the camera so they didn't do anything...ANYTHING!!! In between songs early in the opening set I told the room to forget the camera is on...Its set in one position, on me...so I'll worry about that...you guys have fun...Lets ALL have some fun...
The vibe was not right in this room until the guy turned the camera off...then magically...everything returned to normal. The crowd began to applaud more, I took my mittens off and as my teenager daughter says "everything flowed" very nicely from that point on.
The :15 of interview I thought went better than my playing, lol...
He asked softball questions of me. he was very complimentary of my singing and piano playing. He enjoyed my explanation of how an arranger differs from a sequencer. We talked about early influences, what got me interested in piano...(I told him Billy Joel, Elton John, Kansas, ELP and Barry Manilow)
You should have seen the look on his face, lol...
He then commented on how, with no offense meant or taken, I struck him as the "lounge singer" he always wanted to be. He asked me "How does it feel to be that cool guy that so many of the rest of us wanted to be?" I said something about taking pride in my versatility and that I'm very fortunate to make my living for the last 11 years or so doing nothing but music while based out of little Troy, OH.
Afterwards, he thanked me for being able to speak...(Form words and sentences he meant, lol) I guess the rockers and bluegrass cats aren't as wordy as I am...
My honest feeling is that I'm glad its over...it was a distraction. I've never had video of me before...so, it was a new experience to me...one that if I repeated it I could likely get comfortable.
It'll begin showing early next week ...after December is over, I'll get a copy of it...and I'll post some sections of the music on my web site unless...it...just... SUCKS, lol...
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On a different note...The local access channel is always courting locals to become involved in their operation...there are various somewhat pleasant shows on every month that repeat several times per week. I'm tossing the idea around in my head that I approach Troy Broadcasting about me doing a peformance based program every month...perhaps aimed at the Seniors in this area. I could put together a different program every month...sometimes feature a particular composer...maybe Xmas music during December, etc...I've just started to think on it...it would cost me nothing but time and the payoff from such regular programming is both obvious and potentially lucrative...
Thoughts?
Bill
[This message has been edited by Bill in Dayton (edited 11-30-2006).]
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