Irrelevant references, esp. when self-deprecating, get laughs. The Johnny Depp of _________ or the John Candy of _____ , work well to get the audience on your side.
Irrelevant references, esp. when self-deprecating, get laughs. The Johnny Depp of _________ or the John Candy of _____ , work well to get the audience on your side.
Another one is that I'll go out with my guitar backwards and play badly for a moment, say oops, and then turn it the right way around. It's just little things.
Another one is that I'll go out with my guitar backwards and play badly for a moment, say oops, and then turn it the right way around. It's just little things.
Mistakes are great to play off. It empowers you, but you just have to temper your enthusiasm so no one knows, exactly like forgetting a line.
Mistakes are great to play off. It empowers you, but you just have to temper your enthusiasm so no one knows, exactly like forgetting a line.
I might actually steal both of those. I like to do a humble skit, often to help us open, where I'll say things such as, "I'm actually pretty new to the guitar. I used to play a piccolo in grade school. So, have some patience!"
Then I'll turn my volume straight up to 11 and rip into something heavy and that visually appears complicated. The audiences eat it up.