First Live Show
Sunday night I saw a tweet that Uncle Crappy, Mrs. Crappy, and Allthingsnoisy were meeting at LuLu’s Noodles for dinner. I was pretending to do homework at my office, which is right across the street, so I decided to crash dinner. This resulted in me being dragged to the show they were all heading to after dinner. Okay, not really dragged ’cause I was interested.
I’ve been to concerts and I’ve seen performances in small venues, but this show was entirely different. This show had life. I had never been to Mr. Small’s Funhouse. I knew vaguely where it was. I didn’t know it was a church. It’s beautiful inside. I want to go back sometime during the daylight hours and wander around. It’s beautiful. I love repurposed churches. I have an aversion to being in current churches though. Something about the frankincense at Christmas Mass a few years ago.
Keller Williams was performing and he was amazing. I have never seen a show like this before, he was amazing. (Did I already say that? Well he was.) He’s one guy on a stage with a zillion different instruments, from a range of guitars to a hollowed out gourd called a karimba I think. He has amazingly fast fingers on the guitar. My jaw dropped and I think Uncle Crappy picked it up for me. Keller builds the song one instrument at a time, looping each one into the mix. It was amazing!
So, it’s not music that I can really see myself listening to outside of a live show like this. But the way he builds each song was super interesting. I guess I looked really bored because the Crappies kept asking me if I was having fun. I was really enjoying watching how each song built up.
I am super self-concious so I’ve trained myself, unknowingly and over many years, to not have reactions to things. So I guess I probably looked bored out of my mind, but I really wasn’t. Promise.
Friday 30, 2009
The first time I met you was on the night last spring when you won Penguins playoff tickets at Jenn and Ryan’s first NHL Tweetup; the lasting memory from that was the look of utter suprise when you heard you were the winner. And I know I saw a similar expression on your face once or twice at the Keller show.
For me, the best part about seeing musicians play are those moments of surprise, when something brand new is conjured out of thin air. It sounds like you picked up on a couple of those moments during the show. It’s there for the taking, any time you want. I hope we can get you out to another soon.
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