{"id":17427,"date":"2011-02-20T01:15:05","date_gmt":"2011-02-20T06:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/17427\/today\/"},"modified":"2011-02-20T01:15:05","modified_gmt":"2011-02-20T06:15:05","slug":"today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/17427\/today\/","title":{"rendered":"Just For Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve performed in front of live crowds 100, maybe 150 times in the last few years.\u00a0 Each venue has it\u2019s particular idiosyncrasies, and my state of mind and preparedness on each occasion varies as well.\u00a0 I\u2019d think I would have gotten used to these variables by now, but last night, I was really thrown off by a sound system.\u00a0 What I was hearing coming from the monitors was nothing what I am used to sounding like un-amplified or at other venues.\u00a0 Screwed me up, big time.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I thought, going into last night\u2019s performance, that I was better prepared than most weeks, and since the last time I played at this place, it was one of my performances ever (click here to see that on<\/a>e), I was very confident last night.\u00a0 On top of being thrown off by a sub-par sound system, I also messed up my video recording.\u00a0 Off center. Cut off half my head.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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I mention this because I was really looking forward to sharing a new song that I\u2019ve been working on all week. It\u2019s called \u201cJust For Today- The Serenity Song\u201d by Lisa Dudley.\u00a0 How I found this tune is itself an expression of how artists can get together in the Digital Age.\u00a0 I can\u2019t remember exactly what path on YouTube lead me to this video here<\/a>, but I listened , felt the message and thought I would love to cover this tune for the Open Mic Night at the fellowship hall.\u00a0 I sent Lisa Dudley a message and asked if I could cover this song.\u00a0 Not only did she agree, she sent me the chords and lyrics!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

For all the reasons I mentioned in the first half of this blog, I am not showing you the rendition at the open mic.\u00a0 Instead, I decided to cover Ms Dudley\u2019s song in home with greenscreen and background images.\u00a0 Joko style.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


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So my fellow cybernauts, have you ever just stumbled on something online that so impressed you that you had to contact it\u2019s creator?\u00a0 Have you gotten a response?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve performed in front of live crowds 100, maybe 150 times in the last few years.\u00a0 Each venue has it\u2019s particular idiosyncrasies, and my state of mind and preparedness on each occasion varies as well.\u00a0 I\u2019d think I would have gotten used to these variables by now, but last night, I was really thrown off […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[81,108,1967,106],"class_list":["post-17427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-people","tag-joko","tag-music-2","tag-sobriety","tag-ukulele"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}