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Post 1718, Day 238 of 2016
- 2,064 days since I started this blog -
Daily Comment
- 2,064 days since I started this blog -
I had something special happen last Wednesday night I want to tell you about.
Warning: A little bit of an ego trip (shut up! I know my problems with egocentricity!) here. But it happened, and it made me feel good.
About 8 months ago, I saw a young woman sing, accompanied by a guitarist, at Shifty's open mic. She was very pretty, but that wasn't enough to keep people from walking out on her shrieky performance. But I noticed two things: The first, that she was sitting. The second was that her accompaniment wasn't up to supporting a nervous vocalist.
I thought I heard something promising, and, since we were practically the only people in the bar at the end of her two songs, I suggested that next time she sang, she should try to know what songs she wanted to sing before she got onstage, and try to get a trio - guitar, bass and drums - to back her. If she could tell them the songs in advance, and the keys, she would have better backing, would feel more comfortable, and give a better performance as a result.
Next time came, she asked if I would help her on her set beforehand, I got a guitarist, we figured out the songs she wanted, and her performance did improve (both because she was incrementally more experienced and her backing was more supportive.
Hit and miss over the next seven months, whenever we were in the same place, she would ask me to accompany her, and felt more and more comfortable doing sets with me on bass. For one thing, I had gotten to know her repertoire, and could support her by cuing the guitarist and drummer; for another, I played meat-and-potatoes, supportive bass lines that the other musicians and she could lock into.
Which brings us to this past Wednesday. She was on the deck on the street with a bunch of her friends (20-something women, a couple of 20-something boyfriends) as I walked up to Shifty's (after playing at another open mic). She told me she had signed me up after her, hoping I'd show up and back her up.
I agreed.
When we played, it was with some really top musicians. With these pros, everything swung, everything about her backup was perfect. And she killed it.
It was very rewarding to see people crowding the stage to get nearer to her performance, when just over seven months ago they'd run in the other direction. She gave a very intense performance, including some posing and leaning into each song, really belting it out. The audience went crazy!
I was pleased.
Oh, and she sang standing.
Warning: A little bit of an ego trip (shut up! I know my problems with egocentricity!) here. But it happened, and it made me feel good.
About 8 months ago, I saw a young woman sing, accompanied by a guitarist, at Shifty's open mic. She was very pretty, but that wasn't enough to keep people from walking out on her shrieky performance. But I noticed two things: The first, that she was sitting. The second was that her accompaniment wasn't up to supporting a nervous vocalist.
I thought I heard something promising, and, since we were practically the only people in the bar at the end of her two songs, I suggested that next time she sang, she should try to know what songs she wanted to sing before she got onstage, and try to get a trio - guitar, bass and drums - to back her. If she could tell them the songs in advance, and the keys, she would have better backing, would feel more comfortable, and give a better performance as a result.
Next time came, she asked if I would help her on her set beforehand, I got a guitarist, we figured out the songs she wanted, and her performance did improve (both because she was incrementally more experienced and her backing was more supportive.
Hit and miss over the next seven months, whenever we were in the same place, she would ask me to accompany her, and felt more and more comfortable doing sets with me on bass. For one thing, I had gotten to know her repertoire, and could support her by cuing the guitarist and drummer; for another, I played meat-and-potatoes, supportive bass lines that the other musicians and she could lock into.
Which brings us to this past Wednesday. She was on the deck on the street with a bunch of her friends (20-something women, a couple of 20-something boyfriends) as I walked up to Shifty's (after playing at another open mic). She told me she had signed me up after her, hoping I'd show up and back her up.
I agreed.
When we played, it was with some really top musicians. With these pros, everything swung, everything about her backup was perfect. And she killed it.
It was very rewarding to see people crowding the stage to get nearer to her performance, when just over seven months ago they'd run in the other direction. She gave a very intense performance, including some posing and leaning into each song, really belting it out. The audience went crazy!
I was pleased.
Oh, and she sang standing.
Food and Diet
Today's Weight: 202.2 lbs.
Diet Comment
Previous Weight (8/24): 203.8 lbs.
Net Loss/Gain: - 1.6 lbs.
Diet Comment
Nice to see green on the Net Loss/Gain line. It hasn't been there in a while. One day of eating on-plan. That's all it took.
Food Log
Breakfast
6:15pm: Green protein shake with almond-coconut milk, kefir, extra-large organic egg, chia gel, kale, whey powder (36g protein), hemp seeds, hemp protein (7g protein), raw organic cacao powder, celery, moringa leaf powder, cinnamon, coconut oil and stevia-inulin blend.
Lunch
Skipped.
Dinner
12:25am: A Quest bar.
Liquid Intake
Espressos: 1; Coffee: 28 oz.; Tea: 0 oz.; Water: 72+ oz.; and a nice shot of Jameson's Irish whiskey.
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