Shows

Live Show #2 in Hollywood Brings 800 Fans

October 9, 2009

The first live show last week brought 400 fans, and show #2 on Sunday topped out at 820.

For the record, 820 people would fill the Viper Room 2 and 1/2 times, son.

At this rate, I’ll be selling out MSG by next year…

Over the course of 3 hours, we played a few original tunes, rocked a Kanye cover, chatted with the crowd, even took some requests.

“Whiskey and Cocaine” is quickly becoming a crowd favorite. This week, we also debuted “Your Disaster” in its first ever live performance.

We’re hoping to have recordings of those tracks available soon. I can only stand to hear “Where can I buy that song?” so many times without a valid answer.

Next week’s show is slated for Sunday at 6pm PST.

Apparently, we’ll have 1600 people onboard for that one :)

Shows

First Show, Packed House. 400 Screaming Fans!

October 4, 2009

Played my first (solo) show last night for a packed house of 400 in Hollywood.

But the crowd was from New York.

The crowd was also from Chicago, Paris, Tokyo, and Madrid.

Around 7:30pm pacific standard time, I kicked off my first live show on Justin.tv. All it took was a webcam aimed squarely at my grill and a 6-string acoustic guitar to get things popping.

The show started well enough, attracting a modest 15 viewers or so.

But once I laid into the first track, “Whiskey and Cocaine,” the comments started coming…

“Yo, this kid is actually good!”

“Other people should see this, start inviting!”

“Donde esta la biblioteca?”

Pretty soon, I had a multilingual crowd of 403 viewers cheering me on, chatting away in their native tongues, and occasionally requesting T.I. tunes.

And who was I to disappoint? I mixed in a little Whatever You Like cover for the dirty south fans :)

The only thing missing was stuff to sell – everyone kept asking where they could buy the track I was playing at that moment, and I had absolutely nothing for them.

Other than that though, the show was a smashing success.

I’m planning to be back next Sunday, 6:00pm PST.

Let’s see if we can break 1,000 next time — that’s like 3 Key Clubs packed to the rafters, but with less stale beer and urine smell.