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I got to the Lilly Pad at around quarter past midnight.
Since that made it Saturday already, I started with: "It's twelve eighteen on a Saturday!" and then went on with that Billy Joel song called "Piano Man."
I probably don't even need to add the "of course," but of course the guy who plays the piano in Lafitt's Blacksmith Shop Tavern and Bar has had requests to play that particular song in the key of the C harmonica.
When this happens, I like to play and sing right along with him.
It is really a neat effect upon people who wander out through the gates of the bar and hear the song behind them on the piano and sung by the most recent piano player, fading into my rendition of it.
That probably makes it sound like it doesn't take much to amuse a busker, but, it doesn't take much to amuse a busker; anything at all dropped into the basket that is not a religious tract will do, and hearing the guy on the piano breaking into "Come Sail Away," by Styx, just adds to the delight.
I was playing pretty well and had gotten a twenty dollar bill from a particular lady which gave me a total of about 23 dollars at that juncture, a half hour into a session which saw a lot of tourists walk past, most of them African American, but ones who are here concerning the Sugar Bowl, which is a football contest between two college teams.
The Texas Longhorns are here, of course because it is convenient for their alumni to come here from Austin, Texas and spend money "big" here.
The team is ranked 15th in the nation, which is probably enough to put a chip on the shoulder of anyone who thinks that Texas should be ranked with the likes of Georgia (5th) which is the other team.
I don't know how well Georgia "travels" but the pairing seems to be all about the fascination of seeing a proud team from Texas, which has been shunned, go up against one of the teams that people actually think might be able to beat Alabama.
If Texas beats them, then it might be surmised that, no, they really couldn't have beaten Alabama, which would lay that question to rest.
So, if you are hosting a bowl, which is one of the grandest bowls of all, going way back to when there were just a few, the Cotton Bowl, The Orange Bowl, etc. with the Rose Bowl being the grand daddy of them all, and before the days of The Carquest Bowl, and you can't get Alabama, then you get a team that can lay claim to people thinking that it might be able to beat Alabama, and pair them with a team with rich Alumni who would love to beat a team that some people think might be able to beat Alabama..
The students seem to be much better behaved and more civil than the ones from Grambling and Southern University.
Outside of a a couple young black students carrying a huge sign around that read: "Niggers selling books for reparation" it was pretty quiet.
There is Alabama, and there is everybody else.
I got to the Lilly Pad at around quarter past midnight.
Since that made it Saturday already, I started with: "It's twelve eighteen on a Saturday!" and then went on with that Billy Joel song called "Piano Man."
I probably don't even need to add the "of course," but of course the guy who plays the piano in Lafitt's Blacksmith Shop Tavern and Bar has had requests to play that particular song in the key of the C harmonica.
When this happens, I like to play and sing right along with him.
It is really a neat effect upon people who wander out through the gates of the bar and hear the song behind them on the piano and sung by the most recent piano player, fading into my rendition of it.
That probably makes it sound like it doesn't take much to amuse a busker, but, it doesn't take much to amuse a busker; anything at all dropped into the basket that is not a religious tract will do, and hearing the guy on the piano breaking into "Come Sail Away," by Styx, just adds to the delight.
I was playing pretty well and had gotten a twenty dollar bill from a particular lady which gave me a total of about 23 dollars at that juncture, a half hour into a session which saw a lot of tourists walk past, most of them African American, but ones who are here concerning the Sugar Bowl, which is a football contest between two college teams.
The Texas Longhorns are here, of course because it is convenient for their alumni to come here from Austin, Texas and spend money "big" here.
The team is ranked 15th in the nation, which is probably enough to put a chip on the shoulder of anyone who thinks that Texas should be ranked with the likes of Georgia (5th) which is the other team.
I don't know how well Georgia "travels" but the pairing seems to be all about the fascination of seeing a proud team from Texas, which has been shunned, go up against one of the teams that people actually think might be able to beat Alabama.
If Texas beats them, then it might be surmised that, no, they really couldn't have beaten Alabama, which would lay that question to rest.
So, if you are hosting a bowl, which is one of the grandest bowls of all, going way back to when there were just a few, the Cotton Bowl, The Orange Bowl, etc. with the Rose Bowl being the grand daddy of them all, and before the days of The Carquest Bowl, and you can't get Alabama, then you get a team that can lay claim to people thinking that it might be able to beat Alabama, and pair them with a team with rich Alumni who would love to beat a team that some people think might be able to beat Alabama..
The students seem to be much better behaved and more civil than the ones from Grambling and Southern University.
Outside of a a couple young black students carrying a huge sign around that read: "Niggers selling books for reparation" it was pretty quiet.
There is Alabama, and there is everybody else.
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