{"id":3656,"date":"2009-06-16T20:38:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T20:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billythekid.autoboxmedia.com\/site\/2009\/06\/shows\/"},"modified":"2009-06-16T20:38:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-16T20:38:00","slug":"shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billypettinger.com\/billythekid\/2009\/06\/16\/shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Question:<\/p>\n

“how many songs have you written for acoustic guitar that you perform?<\/p>\n

do you usually play by yourself, just with a guitar & singing? how often are you play with a back-up band, with drums & bass etc.?”<\/span><\/p>\n

I just looked at my iPod and apparently I have 101 demos. Some of these are probably duplicates and some are likely songs that ended up being Billy and the Lost Boys songs but at any rate, I really only play about 10 of them live!<\/p>\n

I’ve been playing shows with a band lately but it really all depends on the show. Last Thursday at the Hotel Cafe I did the first half of the set by myself (which allows me to play songs that are new or that I don’t have recordings of) then the band came and joined in for the rest. I’ve been super fortunate to play with some uber talented musicians lately…it sure adds a lot to the live sound to have a great backup band. I like the idea of playing a bit alone and then adding musicians. Sonically it changes things up and if people aren’t really in to one, hopefully they will be in to the other.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Randy (who has payed with the likes of Ringo Starr, Dave Stewart, Chantal Kreviazuk, Kelly Clarkson, Five For Fighting and Raine Maida’s solo project) played a cajone (this cool box thing you sit on) and a bunch of percussion stuff…he has a tambourine hooked up to a kick pedal so he can be playing a beat on the cajone, shaking a shaker, and then on the backbeat hit the tambo. It’s super cool! Andrew Doolittle played some ambient guitar stuff (what I like to call Whale Sounds) and Joe Karnes from Pedestrian was on bass this time around. My last show at Hotel Cafe we had Ben Peeler from the Wallflower\/Jakob Dylan on guitar and Eric Holden from Five For Fighting and Josh Groban on bass. When in Vancouver, I try to steal Sarah Mclachlan’s band. If they’re not around to do it I just play by myself \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Random Fact of the Day:<\/b> I feel as if my best songs were the result of not writing anything down or picking up an instrument. I would just have something stuck in my head and make up words as the day passed. By the time I picked up a guitar, I already knew how the song went and just had to figure out how to play it.<\/p>\n

Bowling at Pinz:
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