I Remember You

I'm in a very select group: Politician by day. Musician by night. It's basically Martin O'Malley, Joe Scarborough, and me. We rock.

Okay. Not really.

The truth is that calling me a "musician" is kind of like calling Ben Afleck a politician. Strumming a guitar doesn't make you a musician any more than whining about politics makes you a politician.

So I guess the way to describe me is as some guy who occasionally plays the "open-mic night." Whether I'm in Fargo or Washington, DC, I always manage to find a place that will tolerate my playing.

Last night was such a night.

I got off to a slow start. When you play an open-mic night, you usually borrow a guitar of the host band. Sadly, the very friendly guitarist with the very long hair neglected to tell me he had chosen to tune the guitar to an alternative tuning. As you can imagine, this dramatically affected my performance. Luckily, I figured it out half-way thru the first song.

At D2K's urging, I closed my set with Skid Row's "I Remember You." In truth, I was playing this 80's classic strictly to be "ironic" - but I'm not sure the audience realized it. One fellow literally put his hands over his ears. Not a good sign.

Well, at least the other songs went well.

Upon sitting down, I realized that I'm probably the only guy in history of the world to perform "I Remember You" while wearing a collared shirt and a blackberry. Yet another record!