Interesting…
I got a phone call the other day from a local musician asking me about my open mike. What?
I called him back and had a nice conversation, but neither of us could figure out what open mike he had heard about that called itself Buffalo Live.
So, I did some Googling and didn’t find out much, but just enough to solve the mystery. Apparently, the building on the corner or Main St. next to Broadway Joe’s calls itself “Buffalo Live” and sometimes is open and held an open mike night. It was listed on the Buffalo Barfly web site, but other than that and a couple old Artvoice mentions, I didn’t see any current information.
So that’s the mystery solved.
When I named the podcast, I placed an exclamation point in the name after the word ‘live’. I thought it gave a little pizzaz and emphasized the concept of Buffalo being alive and exciting.
It could have just as easily been after the word ‘music’ as in ‘live music’ to stress the focus of the podcast being on live performances.
I really enjoy the two ways of interpreting it, solely by inflection!
But, sadly, it’s a podcast and only holds court in cyberspace. Sorry, but there is no open mike here!
(I wonder if that could be done? Hmmmm… Maybe artists could submit their own recordings?)
