Well, it was another open mic night at the Verhovay club
last night. It was a slow night. We did our first set with no major
glitches. As we were finishing the set,
we wished one of the patrons (Steph) a happy birthday by playing and singing
the traditional “happy birthday song”. John C. started out the open mic portion of
the night. He did an awesome job on some
old Dylan tunes. We also did a couple of
standards. I even played piano/organ on
a couple of songs. Frank came out and
did a great job on a couple of tunes.
The close of the evening saw me dinking around with some old Billy Joel
tunes on the piano. Someday, I’m going
to learn to play that thing!
After we packed up and loaded out at the Verhovay, Scott and
I stopped up at Nathan’s for their open mic night (which doesn’t really get
underway until after 10pm). I ran in to
a couple of friends, and later in the evening Scott and I did a few tunes just
because we were there. I even went out
on a limb and did a solo version of Bad Co’s Seagull. Fortunately, there were no cameras or
recording devices!
We would have hung out for a bit afterwards, but it was
getting pretty late, and I still needed to get to work in the morning. Thanks go out to the Verhovay for letting us
play, and Brenda the bartender for not letting us go thirsty. Also, thanks to Nathan’s, along with Glenn
and Carl (the open mic hosts) and Meranda, because there “ain’t no sunshine
when she’s gone”!