Dennis Balls of Steel!
Way to go Dennis you certainly now how to pucker a sphincter and balls it out! Excellent job all round and great entertainment to boot.
Smart choice of songs too (looking forward to part 2). I'd really like to hear that Sad Songs and Waltzes sung in Dutch in coffee shop in Amsterdam... sign me up for that gig any time!
Open mic's like this certainly deserve their own thread and uploader... and it should be code of honour for every TG member to post a video of any open mic performance. This was a one enjoyable post.
A funny thing happened at my first open mic performance...
Great job, Dennis. Thanks for telling us you were nervous cos it really didn't show in your performance. I'm glad it turned out to be such a positive experience for you. Did the nerves pass or did they stay with you throughout the 2 songs? And you looked very comfortable playing standing up - is that something you've worked on?
Stuart
Stuart
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millponddave
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Dennis,
WAY TO GO !!!! That was great and you looked like you were really having fun. I hope that someday I'll have the nerve (as well as the chops ) to do something like that..
Dave
WAY TO GO !!!! That was great and you looked like you were really having fun. I hope that someday I'll have the nerve (as well as the chops ) to do something like that..
Dave
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Dennis, if I was any more impressed I'd be flatter than a pancake :S
Great job on holding it all together so well ... playing standing up adds a lot of attitude to the performance, and your voice delivery was, well, real "singing", very strong and controlled (nice hooooouuu! there at 3min50 or so). NICE !
As an aside, in your response post you wondered at performers who seem to deal quite well with huge live audiences.
A bit of googling on the subject of beta-blockers and musicians might lead to part of the explanation, but then what do I know about playing to a crowd of strangers... I'm still working on conquering camera nerves. :blink:
And that was a swelll touch of verbal jujitsu there with your friend the open mike MC ... don't resist, but instead, to quote Bruce Lee : "Be like watah!"
More !
Pierre
Great job on holding it all together so well ... playing standing up adds a lot of attitude to the performance, and your voice delivery was, well, real "singing", very strong and controlled (nice hooooouuu! there at 3min50 or so). NICE !
As an aside, in your response post you wondered at performers who seem to deal quite well with huge live audiences.
A bit of googling on the subject of beta-blockers and musicians might lead to part of the explanation, but then what do I know about playing to a crowd of strangers... I'm still working on conquering camera nerves. :blink:
And that was a swelll touch of verbal jujitsu there with your friend the open mike MC ... don't resist, but instead, to quote Bruce Lee : "Be like watah!"
More !
Pierre
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AcousticAl
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Dennis,
Nothin but admiration here.
Well done.
Nothin but admiration here.
Well done.