Post 2350
- 8 years and 267 days since I started this blog -
Daily Comment
Last night was a good night for me, in that I got to lead two excellent sets. And play a song I have really liked for a long time for the first time, and it came out well, too.
But first....
I had a bumpy wait for my spot at Limp Lizard's open mic. For various reasons, I got there late. No excuses, but I made choices that made me late, and the things I chose were good. But I got bumped a bunch of times along the way to my set. The last bump was when guitar God Mark Hoffman got up on stage by himself, when I was going to go up with him.
He did a number, then said, "We should all appreciate that we are in a historic moment. The impeachment has started."
The response was mostly... none. I don't think people were listening, having possibly been turned off by him playing a banjitar (a banjo with a guitar neck and six strings), which sounds a lot like a banjo when played. Solo banjo is probably up there with accordion and bagpipes with things people reject listening to.
So he added, "I don't know what you all think of that." I cheered. There was some applause. Then Dave Porter, one of the main players among the hosts, said into the house mic (from the mixing board), "We're here for music, not politics."
And he shut off Mark's microphone. Mark started to reply, "I was just telling people..." then he realized the mic was off, and expressionlessly turned away from it and started preparing to leave the stage. Which he did, quickly, and then, with me and a few people congratulating him, left Limp Lizard. If I had to guess, he won't come back.
I assume he was going to say he was just reporting breaking news (he may have been the only person in the room who knew that it was announced formal impeachment hearing proceedings were going to begin tomorrow.
So there was a misunderstanding. My parsing of the situation was that Dave and Mark have opposite reactions to the impeachment thing, and, in my opinion, Dave did a wrong and hurtful thing. If Dave had been on the same side as Mark, I think he would have taken it as it was meant: Reporting good news.
I changed what I was going to play. As I passed Mark, clapping him on the shoulder, I decided to play, "For What It's Worth", the Buffalo Springfield song about the Sunset Strip Riots, which began as a protest against the Viet Nam war. Obviously and pointedly a political song.
Dave, who was onstage with the rest of the house band (except Edgar, the bass player) backing me up, got it, and actually mentioned it when the song was done. I felt satisfied that I had made my point.
But mainly I was really happy because it was a killer version of the song, easily the best I'd ever done.
That was the beginning of what turned out to be a wonderful evening of music and friendship, including me playing 'Centerpiece', a song from my first favorite jazz record, Lambert, Hendrix and Ross! The Hottest New Group In Jazz, which I have loved for almost fifty years.
I am endlessly grateful.
Food and Diet
But first....
I had a bumpy wait for my spot at Limp Lizard's open mic. For various reasons, I got there late. No excuses, but I made choices that made me late, and the things I chose were good. But I got bumped a bunch of times along the way to my set. The last bump was when guitar God Mark Hoffman got up on stage by himself, when I was going to go up with him.
He did a number, then said, "We should all appreciate that we are in a historic moment. The impeachment has started."
The response was mostly... none. I don't think people were listening, having possibly been turned off by him playing a banjitar (a banjo with a guitar neck and six strings), which sounds a lot like a banjo when played. Solo banjo is probably up there with accordion and bagpipes with things people reject listening to.
So he added, "I don't know what you all think of that." I cheered. There was some applause. Then Dave Porter, one of the main players among the hosts, said into the house mic (from the mixing board), "We're here for music, not politics."
And he shut off Mark's microphone. Mark started to reply, "I was just telling people..." then he realized the mic was off, and expressionlessly turned away from it and started preparing to leave the stage. Which he did, quickly, and then, with me and a few people congratulating him, left Limp Lizard. If I had to guess, he won't come back.
I assume he was going to say he was just reporting breaking news (he may have been the only person in the room who knew that it was announced formal impeachment hearing proceedings were going to begin tomorrow.
So there was a misunderstanding. My parsing of the situation was that Dave and Mark have opposite reactions to the impeachment thing, and, in my opinion, Dave did a wrong and hurtful thing. If Dave had been on the same side as Mark, I think he would have taken it as it was meant: Reporting good news.
I changed what I was going to play. As I passed Mark, clapping him on the shoulder, I decided to play, "For What It's Worth", the Buffalo Springfield song about the Sunset Strip Riots, which began as a protest against the Viet Nam war. Obviously and pointedly a political song.
Dave, who was onstage with the rest of the house band (except Edgar, the bass player) backing me up, got it, and actually mentioned it when the song was done. I felt satisfied that I had made my point.
But mainly I was really happy because it was a killer version of the song, easily the best I'd ever done.
That was the beginning of what turned out to be a wonderful evening of music and friendship, including me playing 'Centerpiece', a song from my first favorite jazz record, Lambert, Hendrix and Ross! The Hottest New Group In Jazz, which I have loved for almost fifty years.
I am endlessly grateful.
Today's Weight: 201.6 lbs.
Previous Weight (9/23/19): 201.8 lbs.
Net Loss/Gain: - 0.2 lbs.
Diet Comment
Food Log
Breakfast
Skipped.
Lunch
7:00pm: Two parts: At my friend Al's, a burger with a fried egg on top on whole-grain, multi-grain bread and a salad with blue cheese dressing. Then, a free, free! Burger King Impossible Whopper - a vegetarian Whopper that tastes just like a Whopper, maybe even better, although I haven't eaten a Whopper since sometime in the late seventies... and it was smaller than I remember them being. But then, everything is...
Dinner
1:55am: A Quest bar.
Liquid Intake
Skipped.
Lunch
7:00pm: Two parts: At my friend Al's, a burger with a fried egg on top on whole-grain, multi-grain bread and a salad with blue cheese dressing. Then, a free, free! Burger King Impossible Whopper - a vegetarian Whopper that tastes just like a Whopper, maybe even better, although I haven't eaten a Whopper since sometime in the late seventies... and it was smaller than I remember them being. But then, everything is...
Dinner
1:55am: A Quest bar.
Liquid Intake
Espressos: 2; Coffee: 0 oz.; Water: 78+ oz.; 2 shots of Jameson's Irish whiskey.
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