The crew: Jeff, Mister Michael, Gia
The past few nights have been a whirlwind of fun and excitement, Nashville-style. We’ve been trying to hit up an open mike every night, and with the exception of a night out on the town on Wednesday we have accomplished that. The night out included slightly drunken late-night karaoke, so at the very least there’s been a full week of singing.
Jeff works at the Guitar Center in Nashville. At first glance that doesn’t seem terribly impressive, they’re everywhere, and then you enter the store. And it goes for miles. Besides Jeff letting me stick my naughty fingers all over expensive music equipment, he set up the sound and light show for us in the Room Of Speakers (as I dubbed it), handed me a $600 mike, and let me go crazy all over the stage while the laser lights and music took over the room.
It doesn’t take much encouragement to get me going, as anyone who has spent a day with me will tell you.
Gia & I onstage at Nashville's Guitar Center, dancing and singing to the light show
Jeff doing his sound engineer thing....go buy something from him at Guitar Center!
That night I played out at the Douglas Corner Cafe’s famous open mike. They lined us up four at a time onstage, and as a conscientious open mike attendee I am ashamed to say that the evening went on for a long, long time and during a particularly sad set of songs I nodded off for a few minutes. Jeff & Mr. Michael’s third roommate Jason nudged me awake right before I went up onstage, and while half asleep I played one of my best performances yet in Nashville.
Playing at the Douglas Cafe open mike
One of the best thing that happened this week was Jeff and Mr. Michael both having the same day off, so Gia and I were escorted around Nashville like proper Southern belles. We saw the Grand Ole Opry, I made about ten zillion new friends, and the highlight of the day was finding COOTERS restaurant (best name ever). I have never seen an exact replica of General Lee from the Dukes of Hazzard, let alone three all in one place.
The Grand Ole Opry...and me
Cooter's...need I say more?
General Lee at Cooter's
We tore up the town at night, and sampled some fine beers at The Flying Saucer before heading downtown for some authentic Nashville nightlife. I am in love with “the Batman Tower,” as the AT&T building is referred to, so I was excited to be in photo-op areas. I was equally as excited to sing lousy karaoke at Lonnie’s (next to the nude karaoke bar, which we unfortunately did not hit up). After the night flew by and 3am overtook us, we went home and called the evening a smashing success.
Nashville at night
The Batman Building
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