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    Thursday, November 20, 2003

     

    Open Mic

    My set at the Rutgers Hillel open mic went very, very well, even though there really was no mic. ("Rutgers Hillel Open Floorspace"?) I played Rock Creek, the first time I've played it live; I'll Wait For You; She Told It To Me Twice; and ended with Never Had A Brother.

    The audience reaction was great! I had to cut out There's That Song because I was singing without amplification, and that's a looow song.

    Rock Creek in particular was good, but I'm told it was hard to hear, as a lot of the song is harmonics and the rest is all fingerstyle. That's really a song for when I'm amplified, and I can turn up to eleven. I was saying in the car that I should write an instrumental that's all flatpicking if I'm in that situation again.

    But after the first song, it was obvious the crowd was getting into it. After I broke into the intro of Never Had A Brother, a quiet, fingerstyle song, Matt Salmon (the event organizer) and a few others shushed the crowd out in the hallway; that was very cool. Hey, quiet, I want to hear this!

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