Nomadic Performances

Just got back from playing a gig at the Nomad Cafe in Berkeley. It was great to see a bunch of friends turn out and to even have someone travel to see me (Thanks Gwen!)

I thought it was pretty good. I’m watching the video right of it right now. I’m going to upload some of the song performances into the video section. I’d do the whole show, but there are a couple of songs where the soundguy has a conversation. And honestly, there were a couple moments I wasn’t too proud of. Let’s just say I definitely see room for improvement, and places to really focus my rehearsal. Some of my song starts were pretty weak right off the bat. Once I got into them, things seemed to get into a groove of one form or another. Also more than one “pitch” moment. There were no monitors tonight, and I was behind the speakers. It’s very hard to stay on pitch when you can’t hear yourself. You’d think with all that amplification, that it’d be easy, but the fact is, sound SOUNDS very different when you’re behind a speaker than it does when you’re in front of it.

Anyway, there are only a couple of tunes I’m gonna excise from the record.

I also have a video I’m getting ready to upload that shows CodePink booing me during a performance of the National Anthem at a MoveOn rally in San Francisco’s Union Square. I was psyched to start the rally with my rendition of the Anthem… well, I’ll say more in the blog post that contains the video