Positive waves tonight for dcstudio PLEASE

[dcstudio]

ok guys...

tonight is my concert.  I was on the news yesterday and today...  I have a dressing room with a star on the door and lights on the mirrors.

while you are posting tonight send me some good thoughts please...

I am all dressed and the sound check went great.  Here's what I look like...

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=927727654001710&set=p.927727654001710&type=3&theater


ok... and off I go.

[stevensk]

Good luck! 

[lhb_]

つ ◕_◕ ༽つ TAKE MY ENERGY DCSTUDIO つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

[dcstudio]

Keep the positive waves coming guys... my concert was last night--but things are still rolling along today.  

here's the news story about my show and the interview I did 3 minutes before walking on stage in case you missed my other post...  dang I feel so professional saying that...

https://www.wxxv25.com/2016/02/25/ocean-springs-sings-the-blues/

[hardy_practice]

Hats off, gentleman, a genius!

[dcstudio]

thanks my friend... 


notice you cannot hear me playing...  it's so not about what you sound like...lol.   I am going to say "genius" in the fact that proposing this show was a very calculated marketing move designed to take me out of the mid-range and into the high-end gig.  It has proven to have been a wise move judging by the responses this morning.  My little town is all a buzz and I have been noticed along with my band.  This, I am learning, is the key to success in the bigger leagues. 

although I wasn't afraid when I walked out onstage and saw the crowd--5 minutes after talking to the news... you can bet that I sweat bullets every day for months before that moment.   I was so sure nobody would come.   I didn't force any of my friends to come...didn't even really encourage it.  I didn't even tell y'all about it really... I mentioned it when I booked it and never said another word.  I lost 30lbs in the last 6-8 weeks...which turned out to be a good thing... that dress was rockin and the one I had bought was a sack.

As I walked out there I had no idea what I was going to say, or play, and my mind was screaming at me that I surely must be insane to think I could pull this off...  these thoughts no longer cause panic though because I know it's bs.  Still they try every single time...

I sat down and told the crowd I was sorry that I was a couple minutes late but the news wanted to chat with me... it was funny--they laughed--and off me my and my fingers went.  I started by citing my first jazz/blues influence.. and played Linus and Lucy.  I have been playing that one for like 35 years but its a sure thing for me and the audience every single time.

guess I should mention I also sang... like 8 songs... but that was the 2nd half and the news had booked by then.

[perfect_pitch]

Damn... sounds like it was a hell of a show.

I've got to get back into performing... I feel like my skills are starting to fade slightly. It's been years since I took on a good Beethoven Sonata or Liszt Etude.

[dcstudio]

Damn... sounds like it was a hell of a show.

I've got to get back into performing... I feel like my skills are starting to fade slightly. It's been years since I took on a good Beethoven Sonata or Liszt Etude.

dude.. I hear you.  I did a lot of cool jazz gigs when I was a very attractive young woman and really not the greatest musician--but I am 51 years old now...  I have played stuff but not -- "pay $10 to hear me play"   that took some serious hutzbah.  Damn I looked good though--lol...I was blindsided by the news crew 10 minutes before the show and then they stayed and filmed me.  my first concert..holy .sh!tballs lol.   man everyone is happy with me today though.  yeah!  there's a few folks IRL who I hope have seen this story... lol... pretty immature but screw it. I have come a long way.

[ted]

Good on you, Laurie. I wish you many more such occasions in the future.

[indianajo]

Congratulations.  
A TV interview!  The local AGO puts on a concert series during Lent but they have succeeded if they get two lines in the local paper.  They have never made the electric company house organ yet.  
Next I hope to see you on Woodsongs or at the WC Handy festival on Jubilee. Marcia Ball made it nationally, your turn is next.  
On airwaves I might actually be able to hear you. 

[immortalbeloved]

DC!!!

That is amazing congratulations, I am so happy for you! And my goodness, I always thought you had a sense of humour, I could just tell:

''We’ve never got to play unless it was somebody’s wedding or somebody’s birthday or Halloween. This is just…You guys are coming to see us all by ourselves so yeah it’s a completely new experience for us.''

I laughed so hard, brilliant line.

[dcstudio]

DC!!!

That is amazing congratulations, I am so happy for you! And my goodness, I always thought you had a sense of humour, I could just tell:

''We’ve never got to play unless it was somebody’s wedding or somebody’s birthday or Halloween. This is just…You guys are coming to see us all by ourselves so yeah it’s a completely new experience for us.''

I laughed so hard, brilliant line.

thanks   I had been telling that to people when they asked why I was hiding away in my house so much and spending hours and hours working on this...  my friends (all of whom are non-musical) aren't used to seeing me stress playing the piano ever and they just didn't get it + I had lost a lot of weight quickly so that was an issue, too.  They understood when I explained it that way (usually I am watching people drink booze, eat dinner, praise the lord, dance, eat crawfish..have a urology convention--or whatever..it's never about me).. so when Kendra the reporter asked what made this night different...I said it without even thinking. funny how stuff works out sometimes.

[dcstudio]

On airwaves I might actually be able to hear you. 

ha ha that doesn't seem too important does it?  it's funny they did a whole blurb on my playing and muted the sound completely with the voiceover

I was mentioned by a newscaster in the same sentence with Jelly Roll Morton James Booker and Roosevelt Sykes though...damn what a day.