Boy did I bomb.

[Quagmire]

Sounds like the crowd sucks, rather than you do, Rick. Take care, and just do your best.

thanks Phil. Yeah, even putting my over-inflated and delicate ego aside, the crowd sucked; it was supposed to be a fund raiser and pretty much all anybody did was show up for the free food and split. But if garbage were worth anything, it would have been a huge success.

 

[Quagmire]

Don't be so rude daddy!

(At least say you would throw a whole bottle of vodka at him, that would have cheered him up!)

Might work if it were full...

Rick, I understand how you feel, love.

Have you tried flashing the audience when they're dead? It works for me.

I have a feeling I might get a different response than you usually do Heather.

Quaggy, you SHOULD have said "Hey, I'm up here making a fool out of myself, the least you could do is heckle me!" That would have made them laugh and would have gotten their attention. They also would have applauded you for being so ballsy.

Nah Blayse, it wasn't that kind of crowd. every time I tried to make eye contact with anybody I got a look that I took as, "Look; I'm just here to eat your food and throw trash on the ground. You ignore me, I'll ignore you, and see you next year".

 

[Quagmire]

With my job, I do a lot of instructing and I find that sometimes my classes are dead. They just kind of stare at me...with these deer in the headlight looks.

But more often than not, they're still absorbing what I'm saying.

I'm sure you're doing great! If you haven't already posted some of your guitar playing/singing on RF...I'd love to hear it! Please, share! I promise to heckle you if I don't like it.

Thanks Dawny. If my ego ever grows back (and that's a pretty safe bet), I'll try and post some of my stuff one of these days.

 

[Quagmire]

If that doesnt work try tossing a live grenade at em. That'll get em making some noize. :jiggy:

Good Idea Mike. I may make that a permanent part of my act.

 

[lunamoth]

Awwww, it sounds like the crowd was a real dud (and rude...and slobs).

I'm sure you were great! :yes:

 

[Guitar's Cry]

Been there, and it does suck. Wish I could have heard it, though.

 

[Don Penguinoini]

Rick, I understand how you feel, love.

Have you tried flashing the audience when they're dead? It works for me.

When and where are you performing next?

 

[Quagmire]

Awwww, it sounds like the crowd was a real dud (and rude...and slobs).

I'm sure you were great! :yes:

Well of course I was great.

See Luna; I know I'm an astoundingly, incomprehensibly awsome talent,

it just breaks my heart to think that the rest of the world is missing out by refusing to acknowledge it.

Been there, and it does suck. Wish I could have heard it, though.

Thanks GC. Someday when the world comes to it's senses, I'm sure you'll be able to hear my stuff in elevators and Kmarts all over the world.

When and where are you performing next?

*sniff* guyz, our little boy is growing up.

 

[lunamoth]

Well of course I was great.

See Luna; I know I'm an astoundingly, incomprehensibly awsome talent,

I'll pray that you always use your powers for goodness, not badness.

it just breaks my heart to think that the rest of the world is missing out by refusing to acknowledge it.

Oh, they will Rick. They will.

 

[Alceste]

...I think. I just got done playing in front of a crowd (guitar/singing) and I got no response at all.

I would have felt better if someone would have thrown a bear bottle at me.

Granted, everybody else who performed today got the same response (it's at an outdoor fest so everybodies milling around, can't really call it an audience) except for this Raggae band (they were pretty good).

I felt like shouting, "Hey! I'm up here making a fool of myself! The least you could do is heckle me!"

Anyway, I'm back on in 10 mins. Wish me luck.

I once played a gig where the organizers had scheduled us to go on in the "dining room" of a Christmas charity ball during the "meet and greet", which was happening way at the other end of a massive stadium - with about 100 tables and 4 dozen fully decorated Christmas trees between us and the guests. You think you had a bad show?? On top of that we did the show for free, having been told we were raising money for the Children's Hospital and there was no budget to pay us. In the dressing room after the show I bumped into a pack of comedians I know who were being paid a hundred bucks each to pretend to be medieval jugglers. (That was the last gig that band ever did that I let the singer book).