Beautifully Stunted

[quirkstreet]

Eric, Doug, and I performing "Beautifully Stunted" on Sunday night, April 10th, at the Middle East in Cambridge.

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"You've got the most peculiar smile ... did you buy it in a factory, or just rent it for a while?"

Comments

[quirkstreet]

What a cool comment. It's easy--even for me--to focus on the "stunted" part, but I do mean the *beautiful*, too. It's the tricky balance between the two that can lead to something.

[greatbearmd]

*applause*

That was fun. But no boa! ;)

[quirkstreet]

I have to figure out a way to bring the boa back without having it be quite so hot or scratchy. The birthday girl for this show would have liked it too. ;-)

[quirkstreet]

It's a fun song to play ... four chords and attitude. ;-)

[quirkstreet]

Doug the drummer said after the show that the pants seem to bring out my rockstar best.

One of the women who came up to us afterwards said it was great that we come out all scary in leather and then half the songs are sweet. ;-)

Thanks for listening!

[quirkstreet]

While that's not a Billy Joel song I'm familiar with, I know other stuff from a little later in his career, so I know the kinds of melodies and lyrics he wrote and how he generally delivered them. It was a variation on a style that Harry Chapin also did, and from what I can hear, you nailed it.

Karaoke is a curious thing: being able to tailor one's own performance to the memory of someone else's should be a plus (getting a cover song together is always a bit easier for my band than working up the right arrangement for our originals, for the same reason) but plenty of people don't actually have what it takes to do it. I'd say you do.