Open Mic Thing Yesterday Afternoon
Good turnout. 7 performers plus the host, and I left with around an hour to go. So, I don't know if more showed up or the recycled.
I was 5th, so I heard 4 before me (not counting the host) and one after.
One if them (woman in her mid 50s who followed me) was really good. Excellent voice, good delivery & pretty good on guitar.
Two others were good, too. Just not as good as the woman I mentioned. Plus, one of them (also a woman) did sings that are not my taste. Harder to judge objectively.
2 were just ok, but nothing to note.
The lady who was going on when I left fancies herself a stand-up comic. I've heard her before and don't think she's funny. Nice, just not funny.
I played just three songs:
Am I Blue by Billie Holiday. I did it in jazz style (26 different chords) with a bossa nova feel.
Sara, Smile by Hall & Oates. For some reason more than half of my falsetto has come back and I couldn't do the song without it.
I Saw The Light by Todd Rundgren. Played it pretty straight, though a little slower. First time I ever played it on guitar! But, I've played in a few hundred times on piano, so pulling it off was no great feat.
Nice bunch of people. They do it monthly.
I might take a piano next time, if I can find my good stand.
= new reply since forum marked as read
Actually twice a month, but the other one is on a Wednesday night and starts 3 hours later.
I'm playing the old man card & not going to that one! 
Yeah, I wouldn't either.
I started messing around with it using a more 1930s torch song rhythm.
One day, I just started changing up the rhythm to do something different while I was trying to get the chord changes to muscle memory. I started thinking about Tommy Bolin's "Savannah Woman". I adopted that feel and was convinced it was right!
It's a little more fun to sing that way, because I can lag the beat on some lines.
Ideally I would capo one or 2 frets up, but the chords are complicated enough without losing my sight markers!
I'll go back. They seemed excited about me bringing a piano.
It is a double level one!
Here is an old picture of it, along with part of my old rig.
https://i.postimg.cc/DwhqSqw9/temp-Image0-YPP8m.avif
Over time, I had more thane stand, until I settled on the Ultimate Apex stand.
Perfect stand for a keyboardist that needs to be at the front of the stage.
Once I only need 2 keyboards (one with 88 keys and weighted escapement action; the other with 73 keys & synth action) and the other 4 modules MIDI connected, it was the perfect stand.
It looks like this. (Viewed from an audience POV)
