podunklander
06-27-2008, 02:27 AM
Reporting back from my 2nd Open Mic!!!
I didn't do too well, but had fun!
I started off by telling a story about a girl and a Goya. While standing and holding up the Goya by my side-I made sure the audience knew which one was the girl, and which was the Goya. I pointed out that the Goya has a smaller mid-section.
Gave a little background about the manufacture of the guitar, and that Liona Boyd's 1st guitar was a Goya and so was Stevie Nick's. I bought mine at Sallies Boutique for $60, and it took 3 months before I picked it up to play and soon after, was inspired to compose a little instrumental. There's just something magical about a girl and a Goya!
I played the [untitled] instrumental last open mic and decided to play it again and tell the story along with it. I had left index cards and pencils on each table and asked folks to jot down their thoughts, any words -whatever came to mind for them from the story I told and/or what they felt while listening to the song. From this, I told them that I would consider whatever they wrote - so I could come up with a title for this song already!
Here's what I got:
"Rosie Melodies", "The Garden", "Cripple Waves", "Little Woody" (egadz), "Listen to the Valley", "Night of the Sun", "Oh Boya 'tis a Goya with 6 strings, one neck, one sound hole, born in Korea, played in the States with over a million different tones", "Four Themes", "Sunrise", "Astarte", "Pit stop on the Journey to Canada".
Don't know if I'll incorporate any of these into the title, but this was fun and maybe will be of some help to me.
I didn't do too well, but had fun!
I started off by telling a story about a girl and a Goya. While standing and holding up the Goya by my side-I made sure the audience knew which one was the girl, and which was the Goya. I pointed out that the Goya has a smaller mid-section.
Gave a little background about the manufacture of the guitar, and that Liona Boyd's 1st guitar was a Goya and so was Stevie Nick's. I bought mine at Sallies Boutique for $60, and it took 3 months before I picked it up to play and soon after, was inspired to compose a little instrumental. There's just something magical about a girl and a Goya!
I played the [untitled] instrumental last open mic and decided to play it again and tell the story along with it. I had left index cards and pencils on each table and asked folks to jot down their thoughts, any words -whatever came to mind for them from the story I told and/or what they felt while listening to the song. From this, I told them that I would consider whatever they wrote - so I could come up with a title for this song already!
Here's what I got:
"Rosie Melodies", "The Garden", "Cripple Waves", "Little Woody" (egadz), "Listen to the Valley", "Night of the Sun", "Oh Boya 'tis a Goya with 6 strings, one neck, one sound hole, born in Korea, played in the States with over a million different tones", "Four Themes", "Sunrise", "Astarte", "Pit stop on the Journey to Canada".
Don't know if I'll incorporate any of these into the title, but this was fun and maybe will be of some help to me.