My second trip to the Doc Watson’s Pub open mic was not as good as the first time. They had a nice sized crowd and a good mix of musicians including some decent bands, but each act seemed disconnected as if everyone was just playing for themselves and not the crowd. Either that or I…

The new poll asks which of my show flyers you like the best so far. The last poll (Best Futuristic Technology) was the most popular one yet, but I need to scold some of you on your choices. Two of you would rather have a Flying Car than Teleportation. Doesn’t this strike you as a…

To everyone who came to see my show at Grape Street last night – You rock. Two weeks notice before a show makes it tough because many have plans, but I was really happy with the people that either came out to see me or just happened to be there and hung out. The weather…

The Department of Homeland Security’s color coded rating system leaves many Americans confused about how alert we should be for terrorist attacks. The official order of how likely an attack will occur is Green, Blue, Yellow, Orange, and Red. What is the reasoning behind this order? Obviously red stands for danger, but what makes orange…

I made a minor change to the flyer last night. You can fix anything with Duct Tape. Too bad I didn’t have this until 3 days before the show! I’d like to also announce that I’ll have special guest Mark Penza doing a few songs during my break. The Wednesday Living Room open mic rocked…

One cool thing about having a website is you get to see how people found you. If someone types in www.bengarvey.com into their address bar that doesn’t tell me much, but if they do a search on google for “acoustic shitheads” and my site happens to pop up (it doesn’t, yet), I’ll know visitors of…

20-26 inches is the forecast and now it looks like everyone is getting President’s day off. I put up photos of the storm in my new gallery, including one of an SUV limo.

I added a real photo gallery to the site, so now I can handle images a lot better. So far I have galleries for pictures of my shows, flyers, instruments, and some random pictures I’ve taken with my camera. Update: I’ve also added a prototype of a flyer for this weeks show! Let me know…

Last night I saw Adrien Reju play with her band for the first time and they put on a great show. The Grape Street Pub always sounds good, even upstairs unless the bass drum of the downstairs band is competing for decibels. Andrew booked me to play on Saturday, February 22 at 8:00PM. This is…

If you’re looking for an elite drummer, this guy might be the one you’re looking for. His resume sounds awesome, so give him a call if you need his services:Roger W. Parr, Jr. rogerparrjr@aol.com TECHNICAL SKILLS: DRUMS: 20+ years performing, recording, and International touring experience Excellent feel, perfect time, great chops, all styles, sight-reading Pro…

I’ve mentioned MP3.com’s new 3 song policy for non-paying members before, but now they refuse to support your account unless you pay up. Local performer John Shaughnessy emailed their support staff after his attempt to retrieve his password was unsuccessful.”I am having problems getting to my admin page. No 4 digit code is ever sent…

Forgive me for wanting to play a simple game of god damned pitfall. I had just completed a lengthy review of Close Encouters of the Third Kind and was ready to submit it to this site when the Shockwave installer for Pitfall closed all my browser windows for me, leaving me like I just jumped…

I love how ticketmaster keeps me informed about great upcoming shows (Cher, Tom Jones, etc.). Hopefully they’ll inform me when they get some competitors. The last show I went to was $18.00 per ticket including a $5 service fee. That’s almost 40% of the price! They do nothing but sell you access to shows they…

Monday night open mics at the Living Room have been officially canceled and from the looks of it Wednesday nights are on life support. There wasn’t a huge shortage of performers, as Jason Wheatley, Roz King, Vinnie and a father and son duo all came out to play, but an unusually low number of people…

Despite the rain I’m relieved the cold left. My car was so covered in salt that deer came out of the woods to lick it. I like snow as much as the next guy, but when temperatures of 35 and up are considered nice weather I’ve had enough. The Columbia disaster was a terrible setback…

Yesterday I had an interesting conversation with someone over IM who thought I was his mom. It illustrates the dangers of not memorizing the usernames of your loved ones. In retrospect, I wish I had played along with it longer. Edman725: hi GarveyB: hello? Edman725: http://gameloaded.co.uk/index.php/mainpage_url/details2.php/code/5271/Mafia Edman725: look now GarveyB: do I know you? Edman725:…

I just remembered Maria told me last night the Living Room is doing away with Monday night open mics. Anyone know if this is true or not? I’m not really surprised considering the turnout on Mondays and hopefully this will make Wednesday more popular.

Count me among the fans of Jeremy Hollis. He went on early last night at the Grape Street Pub open mic and I remembered seeing him a month or two go. His website is worthless, but his music isn’t. His acoustic guitar / harmonica combination reminds me of what I like most about good folk…

This is the first message I’m posting with my new computer (check out the specs). I ordered all the parts from GoogleGear.com and put them together. This is the first PC I built myself, so I’m just happy to have it up and running. I haven’t been out to any open mics lately, but I’ll…

Arghhh! I’ve been a long time user of MP3.com and despite all the changes they’ve made in the past (slow song approvals, paying for premium placement, etc.) I was shocked to get this in the mail: “After January 31, you will not be able to display more than three songs on your Artist page. If…