The Pelican’s Perch

I wrote this for the LemonDrop blog and am too lazy to write a separate one for the Perch.  I did add videos you can watch though since I’ve got the video plug-in on my site that the LemonDrop one doesn’t have yet.  And as for the video Tiffany sent me and I posted, the feedback has been great.  Couldn’t ask for better readers and I appreciate all the kind words.  I just wanted to embarrass her for her romantic stunt and let the Perch readers know I have a life outside this blog, and lately it happens to involve a really cool girl.  But I’m not one for sappiness and talk about girls, I just felt that video needed it’s own post.  Now go watch my live videos and let me know what you think.

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This last week I played three times over the course of three days. I hadn’t played a live show since last semester, so it felt great finally playing some live shows again. The first show was on Thursday when I played at Potter’s House. It went really well and that’s what the majority of these videos are from. Friday, Chuckmo and I played sets back to back and I got to play with a drummer. Definitely a first for me, but now that I’ve got Joe as my drummer, Chris will be on guitar/bass/whatever, LaComa on piano, and then possibly some horn and string players, my live shows are about to get a whole lot more interesting. Hopefully I can get a little Sufjan troop behind me for most of my shows. That would be amazing. But these videos are from Thursday and Friday’s shows. If you’ve only heard my low quality demos, then this should give you a better idea of how I sound live. Hopefully I get the band together a bunch here in the next month so we can start playing LemonDrop shows.

Enjoy!

(videos after the jump)

Potter’s House live videos

The Pier (techno version)
The Metaphor
Nothing Like This
The Strangest Habit
Worth the Wait

Rescue Me (ft. Chris on the beatmaster 5000)
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Your Mom Fest (with my new drummer Joe!)

• Epiphany
• Nothing Like This
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Saturday was another Songpull, which I absolutely love attending, and Chris and I played Rescue Me with the Beatmaster 5000. The best part about songpull is the songwriter’s crowd. Meaning, if I tell them there’s Sha la la’s here and hand claps here, all 25 or so of the people there will follow my lead and clap where they’re supposed to and sing Sha la la’s with me. It’s really pretty surreal to sit there and have a room full of people clapping and singing along like you’d always imagined, but most times it never happens. Both last month’s songpull video of me playing “Worth the Wait”, and Saturday’s song pull with “Rescue Me” should be up sometime soon and I’ll be sure to post those videos right after they’re posted. Hope you enjoy my music!