Graet thread.
We have all been there.
I remember a particular open mic that started with a local singer-songwriter. His first was an interminable dirge on the birth of his first child - a boy. We all listened politely. Then he introduced his second offering - another interminable dirge on the birth of his daughter who (fortunately) was born the same week his favorite uncle died. He managed to fit both events into a twenty minute ditty. Pure pain.
That same night some local high schoolers showed up with their moms. Seems they were singing Amazing Grace at home and Mom decided her daughter was meant for the stage. One particularly awkward girl was a drummer. Amazing Grace in four part dissonics (I invented the word for the occasion) with an out of tempo drummer who flounced off the stage in a rage when the other three would not keep up with her. To add insult to injury they sat in the front row the rest of the evening and whispered and giggled the whole time.
There was some first rate local musicians on the bill. Some quite famous. Worth the wait. But I would have been happy to see that clown from the Gong Show escorting these two acts off the stage.
Bitchy of me but honest.
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