I'm playing a "gig" tomorrow.....

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if thats what you call it. Sort of an open mic thing but anyways, its my first real thing since picking up the guitar a few months back. Its with two friends, who are quite talented guitar players to drown me out, but im excited and yet nervous. We get to do four songs. Of course they will be sad and slow. I think we are going to do Hazy Jane, Alone Again Or and two others. Yay.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 25 April 2003 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

and we even hung up little posters around town.

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― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 25 April 2003 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)

ya.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 25 April 2003 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)

This sounds exciting Chris! Are you telling me you've never performed in some-way-or-another in front of people before? This comes as kinda a surprise.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 25 April 2003 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

yes, i have but a long long time ago. in college at a variety show with our band "Harry Crumb". a few coffee shops while at college and a few times in high school. But its been about 8 years.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 25 April 2003 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

oh and I've also performed the "Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs Dance" at numerous partys. Butt fuckin naked.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Good luck, brotha! (keep your clothes on)(at least for the first few songs, than see where the night takes you)

― buttch (Oops), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Butt fuckin naked or butt fuckin naked!?!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:05 (twenty-two years ago)

um, completely bare ass. the ol' tuck and run.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Good luck! I would seriuously recommend performing an original tune!

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)

yes, yes. we are going to do one.. I have some songs i wrote at a bad time in my life that fit perfectly.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

"songs i wrote at a bad time in my life" + nick drake songs = PERFECT COMBINATION

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:15 (twenty-two years ago)

yes, for the audience to all hang themselves.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

the mark of any successful show

― buttch (Oops), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Good luck, Chris! Those are two great covers to do. (Not to make this about me, but the only two covers my band does are Belle & Sebastian and Kraftwerk, ha ha.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Yay, Chris V! Good luck! (and try not to depress yourself too much by the songs)

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

You should dance and strip while playing!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 25 April 2003 17:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I want to go!

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Friday, 25 April 2003 17:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Dance and strip. Well maybe after a few drinks....

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 25 April 2003 17:30 (twenty-two years ago)

You should dance and strip while playing!
-- Martin Skidmore (martin.skidmore...) (webmail), April 25th, 2003 1:27 PM. (later) (Martin Skidmore)

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I want to go!
-- Nordicskillz

Those two posts are inextricably linked.

― buttch (Oops), Friday, 25 April 2003 17:32 (twenty-two years ago)

where is the gig chris? maybe i will show up. i had no idea you wrote songs.

― kephm, Friday, 25 April 2003 19:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah, things aren't always what they seem. Poops Mcgee is my alter-ego. Im really a sensitive pussbag. I will get directions to the place for you. Its called the Hideaway.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 25 April 2003 19:46 (twenty-two years ago)

not that it helps or anything. Im not sure where it is. I think Charlton?

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 25 April 2003 19:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I wish I could come!

(*bursting into tears laughing)

Goodbye everyone! Have a great weekend! woo hoo!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 25 April 2003 19:59 (twenty-two years ago)

We rule. Not really, but we did get asked to come back. Did "Alone Again Or", "Hazey Jane" a medley of old school rap acoustic style with some new crap thrown in like "Ignition" and one original. I got drunk and got home at 4am.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 28 April 2003 11:39 (twenty-two years ago)

five years pass...

TONIGHT!!!

FIRST EVER LIVE PERFORMANCE!!!

*wipes away trepidation*

― Just got offed, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 14:09 (seventeen years ago)

vacuum jam?

― Jordan, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 14:11 (seventeen years ago)

Our setlist for tonight (I am the bassist):

Jimi Hendrix - Fire
Led Zeppelin - Rock And Roll
Jet - Are You Gonna Be My Girl
Chuck Berry - Jonny B. Goode
Jimi Hendrix - Foxy Lady
Led Zeppelin - Bring It On Home
Chuck Berry - No Particular Place To Go
Otis Redding - Hard To Handle
Amy Winehouse/The Zutons - Valerie
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Motorhead - Ace Of Spades
Nirvana - Smells Like We Just Play All The Famous Ones
Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love
Willie Dixon - Got My Mojo Working

I had no say in the choosing of this list, as you can probably tell. ;-)

-- Just got offed, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 16:34 (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

― Just got offed, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 17:29 (seventeen years ago)

You playing with a pick, Louis?

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 17:47 (seventeen years ago)

No! A couple of very fetching blisters adorn my right index and middle fingers!

― Just got offed, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 18:15 (seventeen years ago)

gotta build up those calluses, dog

― Jordan, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 18:16 (seventeen years ago)

are you left handed?

― akm, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 18:17 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah, it'll come along. I've only been playing bass with any seriousness for a few months. And hey - at least I'm playing some real music rather than all that wanky electro-prog bollocks I somehow seem to enjoy! ;-)

Ah, here's the thing. It's my dad's bass and HE'S left-handed, so I've learnt to play bass right-handed with the strings reversed! Great for really hammering it out on the E string, but it really confuses people when they first see it!

― Just got offed, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 18:20 (seventeen years ago)

we played a 2-hour set tonight, our last hurrah, fucking burnt the place down

― Just got offed, Saturday, 21 June 2008 03:21 (seventeen years ago)

I'm playing an "awesome metal show" tomorrow so i'll say this...

― some dude, Saturday, 21 June 2008 03:50 (seventeen years ago)

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