Impact: were you all just making fun of me this whole time?
A project I am meandering through about my musical career.
Way back in 2001, several months after my big show at the Ottobar and about a week before another show I was doing at the comedy Club, I met a local rock icon that I had been looking up to for years…
She was doing a show, just walking around before going on, and I said hi, she stopped and we chatted for a few minutes. I said something about how this was a good crowd and how I hoped maybe I could get something like this for my show later in the week. It was innocuous, probably very forgettable, but I still remember it because this person actually made a big impact on my career without her ever knowing it.
You have to be brave to get up in front of people and pour your heart out. You have to be brave to let people judge you for your work and let your work represent you. And laying yourself out there in the great big bad world by yourself is hard. This person did it, following her dream, moving to a big city, at one time having to replace her entire band when they quit on her before a tour.
I took a page from this person whose name I’m not mentioning. I did my best every time, trying to bring the same level of joy to my crowd as she did to hers when she consistently sold out local venues at the height of her popularity. Regional Hero?
National Treasure.
My hero.
Way back in 2001, several months after my big show at the Ottobar and about a week before another show I was doing at the comedy Club, I met a local rock icon that I had been looking up to for years…
She was doing a show, just walking around before going on, and I said hi, she stopped and we chatted for a few minutes. I said something about how this was a good crowd and how I hoped maybe I could get something like this for my show later in the week. It was innocuous, probably very forgettable, but I still remember it because this person actually made a big impact on my career without her ever knowing it.
You have to be brave to get up in front of people and pour your heart out. You have to be brave to let people judge you for your work and let your work represent you. And laying yourself out there in the great big bad world by yourself is hard. This person did it, following her dream, moving to a big city, at one time having to replace her entire band when they quit on her before a tour.
I took a page from this person whose name I’m not mentioning. I did my best every time, trying to bring the same level of joy to my crowd as she did to hers when she consistently sold out local venues at the height of her popularity. Regional Hero?
National Treasure.
My hero.
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