A fine and exciting night of poetry and music last night at GP Live.

Faro took on sole backup duties last night on both guitar and bass, and rocked the place. Some real standout performances including Adam (from behind the counter) ripping up an excellent rhythmic poem, dkeali_i doing his oracle piece and another fine cover by an Hawaiian poet whose name escapes me, and Michel’s harrowing addiction piece.

Faro and I had some fun with our parts of the show last night, opening the evening with an improv poem over a guitar line, doing “Americanized” to close the first half, and then (by request) creating an impromptu bass/vocal version of “Conspiracy” to end the night’s poetry, following which he laid down a massive solo of tapped harmonics and all that good stuff.

And, thanks to the mad skillz of John Powers ( johnpowers ), we Webcast the whole thing, which is likely to be a feature of the reading in the future. Video was saved. I’ll let you know if it becomes available. (It was a spur of the moment attempt, so we didn’t make a prior announcement of it — there weren’t a lot of viewers from what I understand, although I hear brags2bitches made it for most of the show.)

For her and anyone else who was listening/watching, I’d like to personally apologize for the octopus joke…but you should blame theryk for telling me the joke in the first place, so direct any real ire his way. I merely channel the Master.

Next week, it’s new poem night and a feature by Chris Chandler.

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Duende will be at the Ship (Hotel Vernon) in Worcester on Thursday! We’re planning a loose but interesting set — some old stuff (possibly even a full performance of the “Jim’s Fall” suite) — and perhaps more of the improv stuff we did last night, in prep for future recording…our next project is looming on the horizon, a CD of poems and music where we switch up the usual process and Faro takes the lead, writing a set of music I’ll then write poems to.

We’ll also be doing the full “Americanized” album, front to back, for only the second time live on December 14 when we feature at the Storytellers reading at the Village Arts Center in Worcester. Not to be missed.

At the moment, we’ve only got one other gig planned in the near future, but it’s gonna be good — February 18 as part of Richard Cambridge’s Poets’ Theater series at Club Passim in Cambridge, as a guest of urbanitus when he features there. We’ll be doing a short set, 20-30 minutes or so.

If anyone is interested in having us feature, let me know — we’re probably sticking close to home for the winter, but after that we’ll see what’s what. (NYC is definitely on the prospect list for winter “close to home” if anyone’s interested down there, by the way.)

More later, maybe…till then, happy trails…