Black Flame Benefit show report

I showed up early and nervous, had a tall can, and set up my table. The start of the show was delayed, I was getting antsy to play, I had another tall can. Looking around the spot I decided to play all acoustic. This venue had a stage and I couldn’t picture me up there and the crowd far away. When it was time to start I tried to get people up close. Half of the people don’t ever want to listen to the same on ,”all you people in the back come on in the water is fine,” schtick. So instead I tried to explain that the microphones use electricity and may shock me so I am not going to use them and if they want to hear some music they got to come on over.. Everybody that was ever in a band and at a punk show you have to assume that is everybody can be sympathetic to that I think. The goal I set for this show was to attempt to be more energetic. I played standing, which with my back is a chore and tried to bring some energy with it. Made a joke by stopping at the middle of a song got an applause and then played the 2nd verse. A string broke.. no .. went from performance mode to guitar tech in 3 seconds flat. Cursed the god of the A string, restrung, tuned, and was ready. The set was going nicely enough, until I noticed that more people piled in but where hanging in the back area. I decided to move the set to the rest of the crowd, went over there stood upon a park bench and played the next song. So far so good, maybe I pulled this off? Some banter with someone about his beer being shaken on the table, banter about nachos on the table. A beer can flew by my head, I changed the lyrics of the song I was playing to include the beer can. Finished up with another song and that was that. I find it funny that someone threw a beer can at me. It takes an acoustic guitar to make punks act like how people are meant to act when forced to listen to punk. There is some irony in this. The bands where pretty dang good. Dead chaplain knows how to make burnt toast sound like some good blackened crust. I met some good people from A//Typical who live in the next town over and happen to play an awesome brand of peace punk. Suburban moms played a great set, the energy was really good with this band the singer really caught me. All in all a good show.