The second time I ever performed in Winnipeg’s illustrious open mic circuit I sung a song that I wrote apologizing for the first time I ever performed in Winnipeg’s illustrious open mic circuit.
Since then I brought to the Comedy Loser stage a couple more songs. Comedy seems to be the only context I can bring an instrument on stage and pretend like I know what I’m doing. Every once in a while I might be able to pull off something that sounds like I know what I’m doing, but if you’re a legit musician you’ll notice that I have very poor timing. The finest example would be the “Dear Death” song I wrote for Comedy Loser. The plan was to record myself doing the rhythm guitar and then I’d play the mandolin and harmonica live and in sync with the “live feed with Tim from 6 hours ago”. It’s a concept I’m still playing with and want to explore further. But, as you’ll see from this video I really need to work on my timing. Sorry the audio and video quality sucks.
I still find that song rather eerie.
When Comedy Loser announced that it was going to be discontinued after this season I thought I better take this last chance to get on stage and pretend to be a musician. You see, I figure if I get on stage and pretend to be a musician at a comedy show, people will be more obliged to laugh at my self-delusion than stare in awe at it. This is the most recent attempt at being comedicly musical:
Someday I’ll finish writing a song before I perform it… Or I won’t go on a tangent about my asthma half way through the first verse…
This last little gem is the audio recording of a song I did back in December about the Free Laughs Comedy Series at the Kings Head Pub. I only recorded the audio and I had this footage kicking around from a camping trip, so I decided to arbitrarily combine the two and make this masterpiece (of shit).
WHAT’S THAT? BONUS TRACK!! Susan Nisbet sings the hits? Yes:
WHAT? COULD IT BE? A SECOND BONUS TRACK THAT’S MORE SUSAN AND LESS MUSIC?
