...Crazy Sharks :-) I have so much fun playing there. Even Sunn showed up to heckle. I dunno tho; he hasn't had much to say the last few shows he's been to. Either he's getting rusty, or I'm getting better. Must be him :-) Anyways, I had new RL strings, a new SL guitar, and a hell of a good time. Thanks Dan and Cat!
Spent most of the rest of the day at other shows. Caught SanityInn early in the afternoon. I'd forgotten how good he was. I saw him when he first started playing, and never had a chance til today to see him since. After SanityInn was Charles, who never fails to please, then over to Mel's first ever 2-hour show. A fine time was had by all, and she even saved some strength to come see me :-)
So that was my Saturday :-)
And my Sunday went like this "Nah, nothing going on today, just going to a few shows. Not playing, I need the day off." "Yay Jaynine!" "Yay Mel!...can't wait to see Charles!" "What? Charles can't get online? Sure I'll fill in for 1/2 an hour!" :-) I can never get enough playing, so hanging out at Crazy Sharks was a good idea for me today :-)
Quick little show, just ran through the standards (well, my standards), had a good time, said thanks and hopped of to make room for lofthesedazimgonnacutuin2ltlpc Rust (and as a side note, why doesn't my spell checker pick his name up?). He put on a great show...Moondance (one of my all-time favorites) was fantastic.
Well, I think that's all for today. I'm at Sterling Vineyards tomorrow at 630 SLT starting off my regular weekly slot (yay!). Come on down and have some fun!
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Friday, March 23, 2007
Phew!
Well, I made it :-)
Harmony went great, although I was stupid enough to finish with Good Lovin', which always kills my arm, since I usually rush through it. The other thing was, I put a new video card in yesterday (yay!), but when I plugged everything back in, I must've plugged the mic into the wrong mic jack (the new computer has a few mic jacks), so nobody could hear me. Took a few minutes to figure it out, and I was rolling. I learned Jack-a-roe a couple hours before the show, so I pulled that out, and I thought it went pretty well. Good crowd, good friends there, and of course I want to play there again as soon as I can :-)
After a little rest, I headed over to the Shelter a few minutes early to test the stream, and I found out the stream that I rented didn't work for some reason. Dolmere suggested I ask Charles to borrow his, which would also make it so he wouldn't have to switch streams between the two of us. I got rolling a couple minutes early, and after a lil bit of a scratchy start, I had a great show. Polka Dot Undies went over well, as it always does, tho I felt a little chilly while I was playing it. I played Medication, and that's coming along nicely as well. I finished with possibly the best version of Loose Lucy I've played, and Nix wasn't even there to see it :-(
Maybe next time...
I have tonight off, and I'll be at Crazy Sharks at 3 SLT tomorrow (yay!).
Harmony went great, although I was stupid enough to finish with Good Lovin', which always kills my arm, since I usually rush through it. The other thing was, I put a new video card in yesterday (yay!), but when I plugged everything back in, I must've plugged the mic into the wrong mic jack (the new computer has a few mic jacks), so nobody could hear me. Took a few minutes to figure it out, and I was rolling. I learned Jack-a-roe a couple hours before the show, so I pulled that out, and I thought it went pretty well. Good crowd, good friends there, and of course I want to play there again as soon as I can :-)
After a little rest, I headed over to the Shelter a few minutes early to test the stream, and I found out the stream that I rented didn't work for some reason. Dolmere suggested I ask Charles to borrow his, which would also make it so he wouldn't have to switch streams between the two of us. I got rolling a couple minutes early, and after a lil bit of a scratchy start, I had a great show. Polka Dot Undies went over well, as it always does, tho I felt a little chilly while I was playing it. I played Medication, and that's coming along nicely as well. I finished with possibly the best version of Loose Lucy I've played, and Nix wasn't even there to see it :-(
Maybe next time...
I have tonight off, and I'll be at Crazy Sharks at 3 SLT tomorrow (yay!).
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Two days off in a row!
Whatever am I gonna do with myself?!
Why, pay for it tomorrow with two shows inside of 3 hours :-)
First off, I'm playing at Harmony at 4 SLT, hosted by the lovely and talented Mel Cheeky. I love playing at Harmony, almost as much as I love seeing Mel play! Mel was the second musician I saw here in SL, and, while I didn't get into her music right away (sorry Mel!), her voice convinced me fairly quickly (and now that she sings my name whenever I see her...I go to her shows as often as possible!).
Then, after a half hour's rest, I'm opening for the lovely and talented Charles Coleman at The Shelter in Swinside at 530 SLT. This show is hosted by the lovely (altho a little thin for my tastes) and talented Dolmere Talamasca. I played there in early February, and we all had a great time scaring newbies away with really bad music :-)
Hopefully, I'll be able to still type after that to review these two shows, but it'll prolly have to wait til Friday.
Come to my shows, and as always...heckle away!
Why, pay for it tomorrow with two shows inside of 3 hours :-)
First off, I'm playing at Harmony at 4 SLT, hosted by the lovely and talented Mel Cheeky. I love playing at Harmony, almost as much as I love seeing Mel play! Mel was the second musician I saw here in SL, and, while I didn't get into her music right away (sorry Mel!), her voice convinced me fairly quickly (and now that she sings my name whenever I see her...I go to her shows as often as possible!).
Then, after a half hour's rest, I'm opening for the lovely and talented Charles Coleman at The Shelter in Swinside at 530 SLT. This show is hosted by the lovely (altho a little thin for my tastes) and talented Dolmere Talamasca. I played there in early February, and we all had a great time scaring newbies away with really bad music :-)
Hopefully, I'll be able to still type after that to review these two shows, but it'll prolly have to wait til Friday.
Come to my shows, and as always...heckle away!
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Wow, what a fun night!
OK, so.....
I've been meaning to get in touch with Cryene at Sterling Vineyards for a while now, to ask about playing there. So tonight, Grateful was playing there, so I figured I'd see a happening show, and see if I could play there in the future all at the same time.
So I showed up late (I'm learning), and listened to a few tunes and finally got around to IMing Cryene. She asked if I wanted to play after Grateful (!). And since I'm stupid, and had spent the weekend saying I was gonna enjoy my few days off between Sunday's show and Thursday's show (although I had also told Yummie that I somehow knew I'd be playing on Monday :-) ) I said to have Grateful play one more so I could set up.
Well, I got on stage, and tried to play my lil heart out (just don't ask Rose for the picture...hehe). Apparently it worked, since during my "Thank You" IM to Cryene, she said we should set something up for a regular basis (!). SO...I now have my first weekly gig, and it's a great place too...Sterling Vineyards is in a beautiful setting, with great people to boot. So, from now on, if you want to catch me on a Monday, come down to Sterling Vineyards at either 6 or 630 SLT (it switches every week, starting at 630 next week). Yay!
Afterwards, we went to see Jaycatt playing at his house to celebrate his RL birthday, and as always, he didn't disappoint. That cat can sure play the piano (and the harpsichord, and the melodica, and....)! Happy Birthday again Jay!
Also, Cat at Crazy Sharks asked me this afternoon to play this Saturday at 3 SLT. I had to ask who I was filling in for :-), but it's one of them real type gigs! I love playing at Crazy Sharks...they're so nice there, and I always have a great time (when don't I?).
Well, that's all for now...heckle if you wish!
Space
I've been meaning to get in touch with Cryene at Sterling Vineyards for a while now, to ask about playing there. So tonight, Grateful was playing there, so I figured I'd see a happening show, and see if I could play there in the future all at the same time.
So I showed up late (I'm learning), and listened to a few tunes and finally got around to IMing Cryene. She asked if I wanted to play after Grateful (!). And since I'm stupid, and had spent the weekend saying I was gonna enjoy my few days off between Sunday's show and Thursday's show (although I had also told Yummie that I somehow knew I'd be playing on Monday :-) ) I said to have Grateful play one more so I could set up.
Well, I got on stage, and tried to play my lil heart out (just don't ask Rose for the picture...hehe). Apparently it worked, since during my "Thank You" IM to Cryene, she said we should set something up for a regular basis (!). SO...I now have my first weekly gig, and it's a great place too...Sterling Vineyards is in a beautiful setting, with great people to boot. So, from now on, if you want to catch me on a Monday, come down to Sterling Vineyards at either 6 or 630 SLT (it switches every week, starting at 630 next week). Yay!
Afterwards, we went to see Jaycatt playing at his house to celebrate his RL birthday, and as always, he didn't disappoint. That cat can sure play the piano (and the harpsichord, and the melodica, and....)! Happy Birthday again Jay!
Also, Cat at Crazy Sharks asked me this afternoon to play this Saturday at 3 SLT. I had to ask who I was filling in for :-), but it's one of them real type gigs! I love playing at Crazy Sharks...they're so nice there, and I always have a great time (when don't I?).
Well, that's all for now...heckle if you wish!
Space
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Spunky's success!
OK, well....
Spunky BT's went great, once I finally started. I got there about 10 minutes early, since I'm not a real musician yet :-), looked around and got logged out of SL because the sim went down :-(
So, after IMing Spunky herself, who got in touch with the sim owner, who got in touch with the Lindens, I was finally able to get in. Only problem was, there was a pole dancer on the stage where I was supposed to be playing. I personally wouldn't have minded having a backup strip- umm.... dancer, but she left, and I headed on up.
Grateful Stryker (another fine SL musician) was there, so I knew I had to pull out all the Dead tunes I do. He seemed suitably impressed, which is good, cuz us DeadHeads are our own harshest critics. We had no issues telling the band when they sucked, and certainly have no issues telling Dead cover acts that they suck as well :-) I got lots of "whoooooooo!"'s from Grateful, and, from what I remember from Dead and GD related shows, that's a good sign.
I even got to pull out Loose Lucy, cuz my vocal & guitar coach Nix wasn't there, and she hates me doing Loose Lucy cuz, well....I can't play it very well :-) Barre chords and Spacey just don't mix well, never have. I s'pose if I actually worked on them a little, I'd get better at them, but who wants to work? :-)
Anyways, a great time was had by all, 'specially me, and I'll be back at Spunky's in a few weeks.
Thanks everyone that showed up!
Spunky BT's went great, once I finally started. I got there about 10 minutes early, since I'm not a real musician yet :-), looked around and got logged out of SL because the sim went down :-(
So, after IMing Spunky herself, who got in touch with the sim owner, who got in touch with the Lindens, I was finally able to get in. Only problem was, there was a pole dancer on the stage where I was supposed to be playing. I personally wouldn't have minded having a backup strip- umm.... dancer, but she left, and I headed on up.
Grateful Stryker (another fine SL musician) was there, so I knew I had to pull out all the Dead tunes I do. He seemed suitably impressed, which is good, cuz us DeadHeads are our own harshest critics. We had no issues telling the band when they sucked, and certainly have no issues telling Dead cover acts that they suck as well :-) I got lots of "whoooooooo!"'s from Grateful, and, from what I remember from Dead and GD related shows, that's a good sign.
I even got to pull out Loose Lucy, cuz my vocal & guitar coach Nix wasn't there, and she hates me doing Loose Lucy cuz, well....I can't play it very well :-) Barre chords and Spacey just don't mix well, never have. I s'pose if I actually worked on them a little, I'd get better at them, but who wants to work? :-)
Anyways, a great time was had by all, 'specially me, and I'll be back at Spunky's in a few weeks.
Thanks everyone that showed up!
It begins....
Well, it's about time I started one of these bloggy things....I had one a coupla years ago, and I just let it pitter out, so maybe this one will last a bit longer.
First off, a little introduction.
My name is Spaceman Opus, and I'm a resident of Second Life (like who isn't these days). I've been there since May of last year, and I finally got up the guts to start playing live music inworld at the beginning of January. I've been having a blast so far, and I'm prolly one of the few people that enjoys the challenge of a good heckle.
Anyways....
For now, this is going to be mainly another place to put my music schedule, review my own shows, and possibly to write some reviews and opinions of other SL musicians. I heard recently that there's over 100 musicians in SL, and I think that's fantastic. The more musicians in SL, the more fun I have, and that's basically what I'm in SL for...fun :-D
So, I'm playing this afternoon (3/18) at Spunky BT's at 2 SLT. I've only been there once before, to see Frogg and Jaycatt play, and it looks like an interesting time. I'll try and post a review soon after, but procrastination is one of my strong points, so bear with me.
Enjoy the ride...I sure plan on it!
First off, a little introduction.
My name is Spaceman Opus, and I'm a resident of Second Life (like who isn't these days). I've been there since May of last year, and I finally got up the guts to start playing live music inworld at the beginning of January. I've been having a blast so far, and I'm prolly one of the few people that enjoys the challenge of a good heckle.
Anyways....
For now, this is going to be mainly another place to put my music schedule, review my own shows, and possibly to write some reviews and opinions of other SL musicians. I heard recently that there's over 100 musicians in SL, and I think that's fantastic. The more musicians in SL, the more fun I have, and that's basically what I'm in SL for...fun :-D
So, I'm playing this afternoon (3/18) at Spunky BT's at 2 SLT. I've only been there once before, to see Frogg and Jaycatt play, and it looks like an interesting time. I'll try and post a review soon after, but procrastination is one of my strong points, so bear with me.
Enjoy the ride...I sure plan on it!
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