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Mar. 10th, 2010 03:31 pmEvery once in a while, Greg, the piano player at the piano bar I frequent most regularly, and I will randomly call phrases to each other at the end of a song. We’re friends away from the bar; we obviously don’t do it when some nervous new person is waiting to sing; just every once in a while, when it gets a bit later in the evening, we’ll give each other a random shout out. Last night, as I recall, it was, “Greg- war is over, if you want it.” To which he replied, “Fred- don’t put your foot on the heart brake.”
Well, all right; it might have ended there… but sometimes, when things are slow, Greg will chat with the customers a bit. It turned out that there were a few other Kate Bush fans about (including![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
roadnotes, and a guy who mentioned owning all her albums on both CD and vinyl; he thinks her weakest album is The Red Shoes; “wow aside, I’d pick Lionheart; we began a brief discussion of favorite songs, which segued into increasingly facetious requests (heard “Delius” at a piano bar lately?) Then, the hour grew late; Roadnotes and I were preparing to leave... and Greg, enabler that he is, starts playing “And Dream of Sheep.” Well, all right; we’d stick around for that, and sing along. Then, he segued into “Under Ice” (another song you won’t often hear at a piano bar)... and then, “Waking the Witch.” Greg does this every once in a blue moon (gtrout has been there for this as well): he’ll get the momentum going, and simply go through the second side of “Hounds of Love,” murmured background vocals and all, and it’s wonderful. When we left, Velma and I each hugged the guy who’d mentioned owning KB’s work on CD and vinyl; simply one of those nights at piano bar.
Well, all right; it might have ended there… but sometimes, when things are slow, Greg will chat with the customers a bit. It turned out that there were a few other Kate Bush fans about (including
roadnotes, and a guy who mentioned owning all her albums on both CD and vinyl; he thinks her weakest album is The Red Shoes; “wow aside, I’d pick Lionheart; we began a brief discussion of favorite songs, which segued into increasingly facetious requests (heard “Delius” at a piano bar lately?) Then, the hour grew late; Roadnotes and I were preparing to leave... and Greg, enabler that he is, starts playing “And Dream of Sheep.” Well, all right; we’d stick around for that, and sing along. Then, he segued into “Under Ice” (another song you won’t often hear at a piano bar)... and then, “Waking the Witch.” Greg does this every once in a blue moon (gtrout has been there for this as well): he’ll get the momentum going, and simply go through the second side of “Hounds of Love,” murmured background vocals and all, and it’s wonderful. When we left, Velma and I each hugged the guy who’d mentioned owning KB’s work on CD and vinyl; simply one of those nights at piano bar.
