Would you be entertained in a bar to watch an older gent with

[old mark]

a shaved head and cowboy boots, playing electric guitar and a harmonica on a neck clamp while singing older Led Zep tunes?

This may be my next career choice.....


or I could just stay home.

mark

[NJmaverick]

1. Are you any good?

[old mark]

5. I was the singer and bass player for a blues band for about 12 years,

but that was in the late '60's till about '74, with time off for the army. Altogether, I played in bar bands for about 16 years.
My voice is actually better bacause I haven't smoked for about 18 years.
I am practicing, but just wanted to think about performing from time to time as a spur to get myself to practice more and learn more material.

It has been interesting to try to adapt some songs to s single guitar - I find myself learning more and more, and discovering more and more players and music than I have ever known before, and this alone is very enjoyable.

mark

[NJmaverick]

8. Then I think it would be a show worth watching Mark

good luck!:hi:

[old mark]

9. Thanks - I have a few songs, but they are an odd combination of old blues,

Neil Young and Lou Reed, with a few obscure Ramones tunes.

Working on getting a good amplifier next.

mark

[bigwillq]

2. Do it!

:)

[Moondog]

3. Sure, if you can actually sing and play reasonably well.

It's not like you're trying out for a part as a torch-singing chanteuse.

[old mark]

10. I'll try it if it pays well...

I don't know any "torch songs", but I can learn some
Memphis Minnie......

mark

[TZ]

4. I sure would

Especially if you threw in a Rush song or two...;)

[old mark]

6. I'm trying to adapt the drum parts to play on my Stratocaster...

and that voice.......:eyes:


:nopity:

mark

[hobbit709]

7. Go for it.

[Orsino]

11. I can *only* be entertained by shaven older gents playing Zep.

Good to know my prayers will finally be answered.

[old mark]

16. I'll sell you a season ticket. nt

[Chan790]

12. Blue vegan combat boots would impress me more...

I'd be like "Hey, that guy's got the same shoes as me!"



Generally, yeah...I'd be entertained by that. I used to pick entertainment acts for the hump-day party (this was a weekly event that grew so big that students from other universities would come to our campus for it) at the on-campus coffeehouse/pub I worked at. Generally, those acts did better than the dozen identical pop-punk trios who auditioned every week.

I say go for it. You'd do well to add some lighter sing-along material to the act (maybe some Jimmy Buffett or "Brown Eyed Girl" by Van Morrison? "Hey Jude" was a crowd pleaser too, except that 200 drunk over-caffeinated college students can't carry a tune.)

[old mark]

15. I have an old pair of paratrooper boots that look pretty similar -

not blue, though....

mark

[newcriminal]

13. Are you only wearing cowboy boots?

Nothing else. I might go see that.

[old mark]

14. Hadn't planned on it - I'm almost 62, and no longer fit into my

spandex.....

mark