September 22nd, 2024. The Music City Open Mic.

We had an awesome show at Little Market Cafe in Ellicott City before I ran over to Morsbergers today. Good crowd. Sweet dogs. A corgi with a questionably long tongue. Though 7 Locks was a lot of fun last night, it’s good to be someplace where making the sound perfect is EASY, but I’m SO GLAD we added Joey to the mix today to make sure we could keep our energy up!

Today’s open mic night didn’t start at the open mic night. Or at least, the open mic day didn’t start at open mic night. Nope. Had to get up early and go play in Ellicott City. Not a BIG deal to set up a PA, play for three hours, break down the PA and then go set up a PA and run my open mic for another 4 hours or so… but it was kinda warm and moist in Ellicott City and it slooooowly DID sap my strength.

However, my will to Live and CREATE was reinvigorated by Morsbergers tonight. A fantastic list, incredible performances. A JOY. Right up till I fell of the stage.

Yeah.

Embarrassing as foretold. I came home, sore and strangely balanced between sad and Live-wire excited about the evening. I sent Kristen to bed and stayed up waaay too late with ice packs and tequila, leftovers and Return of the Jedi.

I’m tryna treat myself right. But… I’ve lost my way!

Our friend Kerri gave everyone in the trio matching beaded bracelets at the show Saturday night – but Joey wasn’t there. Strangely HIS neighbour gave HIM something that matched us (and him) beautifully a couple of nights ago!

We do this every Sunday night at Morsbergers at 713 Frederick Rd, Catonsville, MD, 21228. Signup at 6.30, music at 7pm. Enter through the back at the LARGER of the two doors! (the other entrances are straight to the bar side and Boba Fett won’t always point the way!) For information about the photos and videos and usage thereof, please visit https://www.ilyaimy.com/robsopenmics/#videosAndPhotos!

A special note to DRUMMERS : we’d Love for you to join us and have a house kit (please bring your own snare, cymbals and – of course – sticks / hotrods), however I need you to show up early to set it up (6pm) and we HOPE you’ll be comfortable sitting in with other performers if they ask you to! Time is generally pretty tight and we don’t have time to set up the kit, play two songs for one act, and get your kit back off stage again. It’s gotta be there the whole night! Though Morsbergers has a lot of metal bands on weekends, the open mic night tends to be more singer/songwriter – please be prepared to play accordingly (hot rods encouraged).

Tonight w