April 14th, 2024. The Music City Open Mic.

Tonight was another great night – a couple of long-lost friends, a couple of new people. A great audience (at least through the first half). A special welcome back to Hannah and her Joni Mitchellishness!

We do this every Sunday night at Morsbergers at 713 Frederick Rd, Catonsville, MD, 21228. Signup at 6.30, music at 7pm. Enter through the back at the LARGER of the two doors! (the other entrances are straight to the bar side and Boba Fett won’t always point the way!) For information about the photos and videos and usage thereof, please visit https://www.ilyaimy.com/robsopenmics/#videosAndPhotos!

A special note to DRUMMERS : we’d Love for you to join us and have a house kit (please bring your own snare, cymbals and – of course – sticks / hotrods), however I need you to show up early to set it up (6pm) and we HOPE you’ll be comfortable sitting in with other performers if they ask you to! Time is generally pretty tight and we don’t have time to set up the kit, play two songs for one act, and get your kit back off stage again. It’s gotta be there the whole night! Though Morsbergers has a lot of metal bands on weekends, the open mic night tends to be more singer/songwriter – please be prepared to play accordingly (hot rods encouraged).

I think I was having sound issues tonight – we had another Rob come out and play drums, and if that happens right at the beginning of the night (e.g. with ME) it means I get a weird take on the sound for the evening. So maybe I should be smarter about that. I have taken the ALMOST unprecedented step of clipping one of my songs out of the video because I should NOT have thrown it at poor Rob and it didn’t reflect on ANYONE well. You’ll get to see him later in the video!

I’m ALSO noticing that somewhere in the video editing process, or perhaps in the lighting of the stage, I’m getting some intensely… virile… beards in these photographs. I don’t remember these guys looking this way, but I’m not applying like… AI beard growth or anything, so I’ll have to be really attentive about that next week!