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    After a eight month sabbatical from playing out I jumped back into the open mic scene last night.

    Typical open mic in a bar situtation. Wide range of styles and abilities. I came up after a very good duo. I did a three song set. That seems to be the magic number. One original and two covers. I've been working out a bunch of stuff in open tunings of late and used the open mic to give them a test drive. The original is in open G, the covers in D.

    I've always had a bit of a problem with stage fright. Maybe anxiety is a better word. I kept thinking of Rockets comment and I'm para phrasing here. "There are lots of real things to worry about in the world, why worry about performing". Maybe it helped. I was a bit nervous but once I got going, I wound up having a pretty good time.
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    Sweet keel! Any chance someone was recording the session?
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    Good deal, Keel! It is good to get out and challenge one's self. I don't think anything makes me learn material and improve better than getting ready to perform it.
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    WTG EKeel....
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    very cool, 'keel!
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    So tonights open mic venture was a bit of the good, the bad and the ugly.

    Played another three song set. Started with a original in standard tuning. That's the "Good". Then did Neil Youngs Harvest Moon, which is in drop D. No idea why but I got the tempo meter dialed in a bit fast. Did not have that nice easy, relaxed tempo. Just a bit frenetic. Ok maybe not "Bad", but not the way I wanted it. Ended with a original in DADGAD. Just a dumb idea. Took me forever to get the damn guitar in tune. The host had a nice set up with a stomp box tuner. But I just fumbled with the bloody thing. This would be the "Ugly" part. Once I got the damn guitar in tune I actually played the tune ok, but Yikes!!!

    Just for the record, the self tuning robot guitar seems pretty good to me right now!!! :
    "The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic
    hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs.
    There's also a negative side."
    --Hunter S. Thompson

    Guitars: Dean Sweet Wood 00R, Martin D2R, Guild D60, Guild D35NT, Morgan Monroe M30, OS baritone Uke

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    Congrats
    I suffer a bit from stage fright too-not because of my playing but because of my balding head and fat a$$. I feel people are staring at me
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