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14 May 06 - 11:04 AM (#1740507) Subject: First Solo Gig in too many years From: GUEST,Don Meixner I did this performance to help some friends who run a coffee house to support a local food pantry in their chuch. I have played exclusively in the shelter of a band for 18 years and doing a solo is a different cat entirely. I am very pleased with most of the components of the event. The room was full and sitting space was at a premium. Not because I am a stellar draw but because this is a committed group of people who support their churches mission about food for the foodless. It was great to see some of my gang there. A good friend called this am to say he couldn't find the place. This has been a common problem it seems for the people I sent the announcement to. I'd guess about a dozen folks didn't get it at all. And thats my fault. I dropped the ball. I relied on technology and I shouldn't have. Next time I'll tell everyone in person. This is what I learned about my performance last night. I sing better than I thought. I can play well enough to support what I sing. I need to give a break to my fingers now and then because of serious injuries they tire easily (But I know this already, it was just amplified last night). At 55 I am functionally blind and a set list with smaller than font size 55 is an embarrassment and unreadable. And a Baptist Church may not be the venue to discourse on creationism, intelligent design, and evolution. I explained why I thought ID was not a viable idea and cited the porcupine and the pug dog as examples why. I explained that procreating porcupines was clearly not an intelligent design and giving birth to porcupines proves that God is not a woman. And with Pugs , why create a dog you have to feed to know which end to kick. Don |
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14 May 06 - 11:15 AM (#1740512) Subject: RE: First Solo Gig in too many years From: Big Mick I have officially robbed this bit of stagecraft and will use it without attribution so people will think I am as wise as whoever you robbed that from is. ......... hahahahahahahaha Great bit there, buddy. Congratulations, and keep on doin' solo. It is liberating. All the best, Mick |
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14 May 06 - 11:25 AM (#1740517) Subject: RE: First Solo Gig in too many years From: DonMeixner Thanks Mick and you are welcome to it. I robbed it from no one. It was a complete bit of adlib. A bolt from the blue. After I said it I was expecting a bolt from heaven but luckily I moved away from the mic and he missed. Don |
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14 May 06 - 11:47 AM (#1740531) Subject: RE: First Solo Gig in too many years From: GUEST,therealme I suspect that whatever cred you lost by questioning intelligent design you regained by "proving" that God is not a woman! By the way, anyone past the age of 40 who hasn't soloed in a while should check to see that they can still read a discreetly scrawled, abbreviated and kind-of-hidden set list without their bifocals. I got caught out like that a few years back ... |
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14 May 06 - 02:05 PM (#1740625) Subject: RE: First Solo Gig in too many years From: Dave Ruch Hey Don, I wish I could've been there, as you were for me a few years ago. What songs did you do? I too hope that you will continue to play some on your own. I'd love to hear you sometime. |
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14 May 06 - 02:59 PM (#1740661) Subject: RE: First Solo Gig in too many years From: Maryrrf I too have been caught off guard with an unreadable setlist. I could read it fine sitting in my living room. On stage it was another story! |
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14 May 06 - 03:12 PM (#1740669) Subject: RE: First Solo Gig in too many years From: Northerner I was a bit caught out on a recent theme night. Needed to check the words of a song (it was a new song). I have glaucoma and have to wear two sets of glasses - one for distance, one for reading. I was at the front having to change my pairs of glasses. Made a joke of it though. "Isn't middle age awful?" I cracked. There was a sympathetic response, yes it is, from the audience. |
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14 May 06 - 03:43 PM (#1740687) Subject: RE: First Solo Gig in too many years From: GUEST Hi Dave, Here you are. Not in that order and not quite every song. Don 1 Henry VIII 2 Natural Girl For Me 3 Wonder Where I'm Bound 4 Two Bit Cayuse 5 Spanish Johnny 6 Along side The Sante Fe Trail 7 When the Works All Done this fall 8 The L & N Don't Stop Here 9 Sully's Bucket 10 Coal tattoo 11 The Old Dun Cow 12 Molly In The Mill 13 Generations of Change 14 Men of Worth 15 Rye Whiskey Joe 16 Queen of the Rails 17 Streets Of London 18 Borneo 19 Buffalo Gals 20 The Nightrider's lament 21 Rooty Toot Toot 22 The Galway Rover Guitar 23 White Collar Holler 24 Leaving London 25 Paradise Almost Lost Poem 26 Gentle Arms of Eden 27 Old Sweet Song 28 Love Will Endure 29 A Mother's Kiss 30 The Bandit of Brazil 31 Roseville Fair 32 Anderson's Coast 33 New York Girls |
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15 May 06 - 10:24 AM (#1740916) Subject: RE: First Solo Gig in too many years From: MMario Don - I'm exhausted just reading your setlist!!!! |
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15 May 06 - 10:42 AM (#1740932) Subject: RE: First Solo Gig in too many years From: katlaughing Good for you, Don! luvyakat |
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15 May 06 - 06:40 PM (#1741343) Subject: RE: First Solo Gig in too many years From: frogprince You forgot "Afternoon Delight"... What a nice, broad, range of stuff; woulda loved to have been there. |