Bo and Lefty Experimenting at Cat's Art MusikCircus

Untolerable Bohemian was feeling pretty lousy last week but he's almost all repaired now and was singing again.  He wants to sing as he wants to know how far his voice will go and he launched into some covers.  Maybe you think you know where this set is going but you don't.  He surprised everyone quite handily about halfway by switching to improv on his original songs and that was a whole different Bo.

Bo is about the last guitarist I would ever say is playing to impress anyone.  He plays a note because it needs to be played and he's never going to play faster than necessary even though he is quite capable of doing it.  He plays a thinking lead line and I'd be very surprised if he is not improvising it as he goes.  Lori was one of the guests and she said one of the songs made her think of 'midnight on the ocean.'  You've definitely got it happening when you're conjuring images in the minds of people who are listening.

So Bo has a bit of a conflict in front of him as to whether to push his vocals the most, push his guitar the most, mix it up.  It's confusing but it's a sweet dilemma to be good on multiple instruments.

Here's a shot of Bo's tip jar to show what happens when you put some Lindens in it:

That's Bo on the stage behind the mushrooms and Cat and I are dancing in the front.  The lights are, of course, healing lasers to cure what remains of Bo's cold.

The crafting of Lefty's songs has been intriguing me more and more as I was wondering tonight how long he takes to write one.  There's a deep thoughtfulness to the playing and the songs are often poetic short stories about relationships.  Without the words of a short story, he uses instead impressionist snap shots and these become the words of the song.  How long it takes him to do that I don't know but I bet it's not something he knocks out in an evening.  There's very elegant artistic crafting that goes into these songs and my descriptions can only hint at it.

Lefty has not yet unveiled his Secret Weapon.  It's not too secret on Facebook but thank the Great God Mescalito this isn't Facebook.  (Mescalito is the God of Stoners and Trippin' People)  I don't believe it will be good for me to blow the secret as some of you may not know and the surprises in music are a huge part of it so I'll just tease with it for now.  I have no doubt that sooner or later it will come.


Dance, dance, dance!