New York- June 24 2006: Day 4 (i play the rongo)
i made it to the rongo with a couple of minutes to spare.
there wasn't much to do in the way of a sound check....that's the upside of playing solo. i got set up and grabbed a beer. having never played there before i wasn't sure of their protocol. it turned out that there was another singer/songwriter on the ticket....it seems his band was scheduled to play and then couldn't make it..so he was working solo as well. his name was eddy dyer and since he was there first i figured it was his gig and i was a guest...so i started and played about 50 minutes...then turned it over to eddy, he said he would do about 50 minutes and then pass it back...hell that suited me perfectly...he was a pretty good player, and after i heard his first set i approached him about me and him doubling up for the last one.
while i was waiting on that fabled last set to start. mike and tamra showed up...and that was cool because you always feel better the first time you play a strange room if you know some faces. we revisited our earlier conversation about patron tequila and wound up having a few shots. mike was passing on the drinks as he had to drive home. they said they would stay through part of the last set, but would probly be gone by the time i finished up.
ok so it's show time julie jordan was there, and jon of course, and julie was kinda down having had a friend of hers pass away that day, so me and eddy just took it easy and played all the stuff that we thought would work in an acoustic duo....the bummer to those throw togethers is that the sets are almost always all covers, neither me nor eddy knowing each others songs. still it was really fun and i thought it went very well, it seemed like just a couple of minutes had gone by, but the lights were flashin and the bar was closin down. i would have liked the chance to hang out with eddy a bit more, but i was wearin pretty thin by that time so i told him i'd look for him if i ever got that way again, and me and jon packed it on in for home.
there wasn't much to do in the way of a sound check....that's the upside of playing solo. i got set up and grabbed a beer. having never played there before i wasn't sure of their protocol. it turned out that there was another singer/songwriter on the ticket....it seems his band was scheduled to play and then couldn't make it..so he was working solo as well. his name was eddy dyer and since he was there first i figured it was his gig and i was a guest...so i started and played about 50 minutes...then turned it over to eddy, he said he would do about 50 minutes and then pass it back...hell that suited me perfectly...he was a pretty good player, and after i heard his first set i approached him about me and him doubling up for the last one.
while i was waiting on that fabled last set to start. mike and tamra showed up...and that was cool because you always feel better the first time you play a strange room if you know some faces. we revisited our earlier conversation about patron tequila and wound up having a few shots. mike was passing on the drinks as he had to drive home. they said they would stay through part of the last set, but would probly be gone by the time i finished up.
ok so it's show time julie jordan was there, and jon of course, and julie was kinda down having had a friend of hers pass away that day, so me and eddy just took it easy and played all the stuff that we thought would work in an acoustic duo....the bummer to those throw togethers is that the sets are almost always all covers, neither me nor eddy knowing each others songs. still it was really fun and i thought it went very well, it seemed like just a couple of minutes had gone by, but the lights were flashin and the bar was closin down. i would have liked the chance to hang out with eddy a bit more, but i was wearin pretty thin by that time so i told him i'd look for him if i ever got that way again, and me and jon packed it on in for home.
posted by Billy Eli at 8:19 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
Links to this post:
Create a Link
<< Home