Brutally touched by my open mic community this Monday night. BRUTALLY! Deeply? Lastingly?
My co-co-host Chris Ehrich came up with the idea and with the help of Rowan and Kristen and who knows who else I was surprised by most of the regulars covering rob songs to celebrate the first year of the VOM. It felt pretty good to be celebrated even though I fear I wasn’t good at showing it.
Just like when Brennan and the Java Mammas open mic did it for my birthday I must admit I was a little slow at catching on, but once I realized what was happening I really enjoyed figuring out what everyone was playing. I Love hearing things re-imagined and having my OWN imagination twisted around someone else’s playing and singing style is just… well – it’s sort of one of the things I Love most about music as a collaborative art form.
I’m not going to get too mushy. I think everyone looks at me funny when I get mushy. But having played two memorial shows for other open mic hosts recently – what can I say? I’m so glad they’re doing this while I’m alive to see it!
Thank you thank you thank you.
From Kristen :
Thanks to everyone in the Rob’s Open Mics community for such an amazing, heartfelt night commemorating one year of Virtual Open Mic…especially the 15 (!!) folks who threw down covers of Rob songs:Debbie Annen & John (Stray Cat Strut)Roscoe Beano (Crazy As a Good Thing)Dave Godbey (Secret Surgery)Jimmy Stewart (Baliset)Dave Benham (Georgetown)Rick Millman (unEven)Rowan Corbett (Valeri)Lacey Anthony (The MARC)John Peiffer (Rob Me [a Rob Tribute Song])Chris Ehrich (The MARC)Jillian Matundan (Crazy As a Good Thing)Joey Jenkins (Elephant Joke)Chris Otto (Secret Surgery)Matt Holsen (Negative Space)Kosi Akosua Gyebi (Rearview)I hope I got everyone! The night is up here; we’ll try to timestamp things so you don’t have to wade through 4.5 hours to find something: Love y’all!
