Clips of my Sets

[James Smann]

About 30 or 35 people were there...not bad for a Wednesday night that far south...I think it went well. P.A. was shit...no where to plug my guitar in so we went ghetto style with mic'ing it. yeah...so here it is.

FIRST CLIP (My Pink Pony):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvDN6q2rAsM

SECOND CLIP (Clean Song from 3-15-2010):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJypOTTisVQ

[James Smann]

ha ha. Rad! You don't get much more passive-aggressive than voting Do not Like on this. Awesome!

[scamboogah]

Don't look at me. I don't even know how to do that particular trick...

[James Smann]

lol! I honestly don't mind. I didn't put it up for any other reason than to have others see that I do indeed play out live...so yeah, no worries Scambo McDambo.

[pg13]

"Rick Springfield is a fucking douchebag. Who writes a song about fucking your best friend's girlfriend?"

The Cars

pg--False Premise Denial, Incorporated--seattle

[James Smann]

"Rick Springfield is a fucking douchebag. Who writes a song about fucking your best friend's girlfriend?"

The Cars

pg--False Premise Denial, Incorporated--seattle

Ha ha ha. I'm sure TONS of rock musicians have written songs based on that very subject. But for the purposes of my material, NO ONE DOES.

Artistic license Eff Tee Double-Ewe!

[Kon Darp]

Double entendre is french for two entendres is a wonderful joke.

I would get some fun canned jokes for people who sneeze or cough during your song. It WILL happen again.

You have a great voice, and your guitar playing is good. I absolutely loved the "Paying tribute to the good looking brother's harmonies" part.

I could do without all the cock/wiener/boner stuff. That's just me, though, and get off my lawn.
(I'm younger than you)

[James Smann]

Double entendre is french for two entendres is a wonderful joke.

Thanks man! I always think of it as an "easy" score, know what I mean? And funnily enough, it doesn't always land right on the audience...but the other night it did, so I was happy.

I would get some fun canned jokes for people who sneeze or cough during your song. It WILL happen again.

Yeah, you're absolutely right and I'll work on those. I definitely am in the camp of "don't ignore obvious shit" because everyone else hears the coughs and sneezes, so if you can roll with it and not let it fuck you up, then you're doing well.

You have a great voice, and your guitar playing is good. I absolutely loved the "Paying tribute to the good looking brother's harmonies" part.

Thanks again! I started life as a bass player, so I'm very ham-fisted and I'm aware of that...but through this whole process I definitely feel more confident on the guitar for sure. And I really do like doing the tribute to the Proclaimers too...it's a "musician" joke to me, but one I like doing.

I could do without all the cock/wiener/boner stuff. That's just me, though, and get off my lawn.
(I'm younger than you)

Ha. Then I should upload the rest of my set. you'll hate it! But I totally acknowledge it with "The Clean Song" and that actually went pretty well the other night too. I/we do have less vulgar material, but for some reason I really like being filthy as hell. But I've definitely got a couple of song ideas floating around in my head that are less weiner/balls and more thinky-think.

Thanks for watching the video and offering up likes/dislikes! Muy appreciated sir.

[James Smann]

ha ha. Rad! You don't get much more passive-aggressive than voting Do not Like on this. Awesome!

And of course rating the clip one star was awesome of whomever did that too!

THE INTERNET IS SERIOUS BIZNASS!

[Me, The JerBear]

I listened to the recorded version first and then the live and I have to say that you are funnier/more entertaining live than in the can (don't bother making a standup in the bathroom joke-I beat you to it(damn there's like hidden meaning there)).

Keep it up though, man. It's good to see someone else doing musical comedy material. I just pissed away an afternoon auditioning for America's Got Talent in Atlanta and I don't think that there was a single comedian there besides myself.

And I barely even qualify.

[James Smann]

Thanks for giving it a listen man! And yeah, I definitely feel like there's something that gets added to the material when I do it live as opposed to "in the studio." However, studio time affords me the chance to flesh stuff out musically and to do some songs that I just can't do live w/o a full band behind me.

[James Smann]

It was an open mic this time...bar was pretty dead all night. About 15 people in there, most of whom didn't care at all if there was comedy in front of them or not. The cool part is that towards the end of my set, some folks were gathering outside by the window to listen to my material, and a group of them came in about a verse into my last song (hence the two ladies who come in and pretty much block the camera for the rest of the video). But I'm glad they did because you can see the one girl hold up her lighter in the song, and I reacted to it and got a pretty good laugh. By the time I fniished there were maybe another 10 or 15 people that had trickled in over thenight...Pretty fun, loose set that night.

Here's "The Clean Song" from Monday night...it's how I close out my sets. Feel free to vote "Bad Post" and rate the video on YouTube with 0 or 1 star. Thx!

(If anyone is interested, I started my set with a crowd-participation version of Ducktales, I can upload that later too, got some good laughs w/ it...it's prolly a keeper)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJypOTTisVQ

[maxbarth]

I wasn't sure until I got to the "Do you want to ride a pink pony/do you want to sit on my wiener" bit. Then I knew I liked it.

[James Smann]

I wasn't sure until I got to the "Do you want to ride a pink pony/do you want to sit on my wiener" bit. Then I knew I liked it.

Thanks man! Did you watch the second clip? Maybe I should put that link in the first post...