Open Mic

Nagoya Friends Open Mic Night @ Misfits! Aug. 16th, 2008 Date: August 16th, 2008 (3rd Saturday)Time: 19:00 - 21:00 (registration from 18:00-19:00)Place: Misfits, Imaike Bee House 3rd Floor, Imaike 4-chome 10-16 Fee: 1500 yen (includes 1 free drink) … Performers admitted free!Dress code: Anything (Casual, etc)Reservations: No Reservations Necessary. Just show up to the p

Seems Obama stumbled into the usual open mic gaffe that is so common to politicians at international meetings while he was talking with British opposition leader David Cameron.However, instead of inadvertently announcing the start of World War III, or calling reporters assholes, he...well read the transcript for yourself:--------------------------------------------CAMERON: You should be on the bea

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Tonight we had Erik Christensen, plus open mic. Che and Mark Strohschoin accompanied Erik. We also had Russ Lamb, Anthony Easterwood, and Robert Boneish for open mic. After I shut off the video recording, there was a small jam session too. What a great night of music! View Larger and Comment Live music on Whidbey Island.

Subscribe to my feed! It’s free, easy to do and makes me happy! So here's the deal.....I recently wrote a piece about how to get booked for your first show.  In that piece, I told everyone to go and find ALL the open mic nights around, sign up and start playing.  After you play, meet the owners, talk a little shop, get booked.  It's that easy.  This is great advice (trust me, I know what I'm talkin' about), but then I thought to myself.... "Self, couldn't you help just a little bit more??"Well, sure I can!!  So here's the skinny:  We're starting an regular open mic night program at Little Rock Jams.During the first class, we'll decide on a song list for the open mic night. In the subsequent classes, I'll help you learn the songs, teach y

Looks like the switch over to the new virtual personal server (VPS) was made last night. If you havn't experienced any downtime, I wouldn't expect any from here on out. It does looks like we lost a few comments and info from the past day or so, but nothing too horrible. Also member posters might notice that the FTP (of pictures, etc) is not currently working, but that should be linked back up fairly quickly. Now we will see if my VPS has enough dedicated RAM or god forbid I might have to purchase more... Original post blogged on b2evolution.

Here's the recording of the open mic. We started late, but had a nice time. Will Jobsen opened with a nice little concert, then Russ Lamb and Robert Boneish collaborated on some songs. We stayed open till after 11pm, because we were having so much fun. View Larger, Rate, and Chat

Just got back from another open mic night at the coffee shop down the street from my house. Have I told you yet that I love where I live? Anyways, I’ll just make this post brief, but I really want to encourage you to attend an open mic somewhere in your city. I’m talking about [...]

Here's the recording of our weekly open mic, every Friday. Great, great open mic tonight. We started with Will Jobsen, then Robert Boneish, then Russ Lamb, and then Vinnie Labrador too! The guys also jammed in various combinations -- instigated by Vinnie.

Several wildly different sets tonight at open mic. First we had "Trilogy", headed by Ms. Kitty. Then I read one of my favorite stories, by Gerald Durrell. Here's the video. Later, Robert Boneish showed up and did a few numbers. Always a treat to have Robert at Rockhoppers. I recorded him, too. All in all, a very pleasant, low-key open mic. Open your mic on Whidbey Island.

This is the recording of our weekly open mic. Tonight we got to hear from Alyssa Ingersoll, Vinny Labrador, Steve Jordan, Scott Davis, Adam Shults, and a few others. Nice night of music! Note that after Alyssa plays, there's a long break while we get some acts together. This is one of those times I wish we could edit the recorded stream. Zoom ahead fifteen or twenty minutes to get to the rest of the music, it's worth hearing, for sure. View Larger, Rate, and Comment

What a night! We had so many guitars here, I kept looking around for Ed Newkirk or Chaz Glass. (When Ed and Chaz played here, they brought a lot of guitars. It was like a Martin guitar family reunion.) Alyssa, Rena, Eddie, Dex, Don and my guitars were all here. We also had a fiddle, and several young people borrowed Eddies guitar for a few numbers. I managed to get most of the night on video, so I'll be posting highlights. We had several people watching our live streaming video, hope it looked and sounded OK. We're still working out the details of using the webcam. Here's Eddie. Eddie hosts a song circle, and he's moving it to Rockhoppers Tuesday nights. Watch for more on that, and we'll stream that video too. Dex is becoming an open mic regular -- and we're glad to have him. We convinced James to play a song or two. This is the one I got on video. Text about Whidbey Island goes here.

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"Open Mic" t-shirt was created for music lovers and creators everywhere and As[one] Clothing is so proud of it that organizes a contest in conjunction with its release! Basically, As[one] asks from all the ambitious writes out there to write a one paragraph essay explaining how music influences their lives. That doesn't sound so hard! (yea right...) On the 20th of July it will be narrowed down to 3 final entries and they will open up voting to the public. The winner will receive the t-shirt itself and $100 in store credit towards future purchases, plus their essay will be used as the description for the "Open Mic" t-shirt. (Read the rules here) The rest of the mortals who just wanna buy the damn t-shirt (price: $16), you can pre-order it by writing an email at customercare@asoneclothing.com with "Pre-order" in the title (list your size and email address).Update: I just realized that there's also a sale going on at As[one] that will save you 25% off everything in the store!

Last night was one of those rare evenings when I didn't have to rush from work to the daycare. The hubby had taken the day off to go golfing. Afterwards he decided to pick up the boys early and take them fishing on the Reservoir. This meant I didn't have to worry about being Mommy for a few hours. I could do whatever I wanted! I had to return some books I had borrowed from my mom. We

On May 21, Adante ACE and "The Streets Have A Voice" present part 2 of their Rock The Mic Series. Introducing Justo's Rookie of the Year and MTV's Breakthrough DJ of the Year, Superstar Jay's Mixtape Open Mic at TNY located at 240 West 52nd Street between 8th avenue and Broadway. Also performing live, Jae Millz. Everyone can enter for $10 with an RSVP to rockthemic@aosentertainment.com for the guest list. Taking it back to when Ace was promoting "Open Mic Wednesdays @ Speed" from 2002-2005, sign up will start at 9pm and performances will be based on first come, first perform. Make sure you pick up your copy of the first installment of their new DVD series featuring performances and interviews from the showcases and events of 2006 for only $5.This will be an official "The Streets Have A Voice" DVD event. Filming for the next DVD installment will take place throughout the night.Log onto to www.AOSRADIO.com for more information and to view photos from our past events.

Sorry this has taken so long to post. I got new video editing software, and I've been learning how to use it. The good news is that the videos look better, and are smaller -- so they load faster. Open Mic was just great! We had several fantastic musicians. I am so jealous of these young kids who come in and just kill. The voices on our open mic musicians! Wow. Big thanks to Clem Floyd for letting us use his amp. Ours is now fixed (thanks Mary!), so we're all set with 4 channels, and have 2 vocal and 1 instrument mics. Videos: Vinnie #1 Two Young Men More later.

We had a new musician come in, she plays 11 instruments, sings, and writes her own songs. All at the same time! :) (not really) Anyway, if you're reading this, and you aren't coming to open mic, you're missing some fun. Tomorrow is the Chess Simul, and Rene's finally letting me mow the lawn. WooHoo! I was driving around this week, and saw lots of people running red lights. I noticed that the highway department has increased the time between the light turning red and the green light for the other direction. The longer this time gets, the more people run the red light! Humans respond well to positive stimuli, adapt quickly, and figure out how to 'game the system'. Increasing the time between the red light in one direction and the green in the other actually encourages running the red light. Reward without punishment. The problem is not the people running the red light. The problem is the people getting the green light are not looking for traffic before pulling out.

So, no-one showed up for open mic tonight, the first time that's happened. I've given up trying to figure out the traffic patterns of when and why people come to Rockhoppers. It's like waiting for a bus -- no matter when you get to the bus stop, or what time the bus is scheduled, the bus comes when the bus comes.A friend or two did show up, and we swapped stories. Here's my best story from the night.In the late 90's I was in the Navy, working on a ship. The USS Dixon (AS-37) was a submarine tender, designed to replenish and repair submarines at sea. It turned out that is was dangerous and stupid to replenish and repair submarines at sea, so the ship spent 11 months of the year 'welded' to the pier. Once a year it had to go to sea for at least 30 days, so it could still be considered 'sea duty' for the people working on the ship. Sea duty came with more pay and promotion opportunities. So, we got to live and play in sunny San Diego most of the year, and then go to something lik

Note that this post is by Dan. Rene is so busy that I do most of the videography, and posting of videos, so I have my own account to do that. I have also been hosting our Friday open mic's, because of Rene having to manage the bingo games at the Clinton Community Hall for the Progressive Club.We didn't have too many people for open mic this Friday, but boy, did we have some amazing music. Alyssa Ingersoll played and sang -- she has a fantastic voice! Her mother, Rena Edelen, an old hand at the coffeehouse scene, also entertained us. The two of them teamed up on a wide selection of folk classics. It was a lovely evening.I joined Alyssa and Rena for one of my favorite songs: "Long Black Veil"Here's the video.http://video.google.com/videouploadfinished?docid=-4759464277365265267&cid=4307173149dcffa6