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Friday, September 01, 2006 Jamba Juice Sometimes bookings come about in the most random of ways. I was wandering through Craigslist last night, checking out the musician postings, when I saw that Jamba Juice was looking last-minute for performers for their First Annual Back to School Party. Since I had one of the slots free, I sent my information to their general manager and got an email back a few hours later: "Love the music, I may have actually seen you at Caribou once." Afternoon the next day, I played for a crowd in the University of Illinois-Chicago area and had my first Jamba Juice (pretty good stuff). The only unfortunate part of the gig was that I'd lugged my keyboard out for the concert and when I set it up I got an error message I'd never seen before. I still don't know what's wrong with it, and it won't play--it's likely that I bumped it somehow and jarred the internal wiring; although I have an impressive case, it doesn't actually protect as well as it should. Luckily I have a couple of weeks before I need to use the piano again (I'm playing at Uncommon Ground on Sept. 24). But the effect of the problem was that for the first time in a long while, I played an entire set on guitar. I think my last guitar-only show was in December, and that only lasted a half hour, as opposed to an hour. As compensation, the audience heard a couple of songs I haven't played in a while, as well as two improvised songs (the topics I was given were love, beer, school, guitar-playing woman, blue shirt and blue jeans, croissant, and football). That makes 12 concerts this month if you count the day-of cancellation in Canton, Mich. ^ Top | 8:04 PM | | | 
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