{"id":8901,"date":"2022-03-17T07:34:05","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T12:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/?p=8901"},"modified":"2022-03-17T10:01:05","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T15:01:05","slug":"random-thursday-the-spd-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2022\/03\/17\/random-thursday-the-spd-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Thursday: The SPD Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Faith and begorrah, it’s Saint Patrick’s Day, and the Gazette is assuming a [very temporary] new look. Notice anything different?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Actually, my immediate family — which, AFAIK, has no Irish heritage — has sort of a special relationship to SPD. I was born in the little Texas Panhandle town of Shamrock, and my brother was born on Saint Patrick’s Day (happy birthday, little bro!). So, we’ve got that going for us.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Anyway…<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last Tuesday night, Debbie and I attended a “dueling pianos” event at the Horseshoe Bay Resort. We had never done that before, and our expectations were way off-base. Instead of Chopin and Mozart and Dostoevsky — uh, maybe that last one isn’t who I’m thinking about, now that I think about it — we were treated to Aerosmith and Snoop Dogg (or whatever he’s calling himself today) and Charlie Daniels. The DP act was the Killer Keyz<\/a> (very catchy), and their show was one of the more fun things we’ve experienced in a while.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It wasn’t just a couple of guys playing a predetermined set of songs on their pianos; the whole show was comprised of songs requested by the audience (consisting of around 500 people of all ages, from children through none-of-your-business). But to clarify, if you asked for a song and accompanied it by folding money, that was a “request.” Songs unaccompanied by pictures of dead presidents were “suggestions.” Pretty sure no suggestions made the big time, unless they were duplicated by people paying for the same song.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The evening was both a concert and a sing-along, and most of the songs were well-known to almost everyone. I mean, who can’t sing along with Sweet Caroline<\/em> or American Pie<\/em>? But then the KKs launched into Bohemian Rhapsody<\/em> and I realized that there are a lot of people who had too much time on their hands at some point in their lives. I mean, the audience did sound impressive, but Debbie and I had nothing to contribute to the effort (we totally nailed American Pie<\/em>, though).<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m telling you all of this simply to say that no matter how good you sound as an audience when you sing Bohemian Rhapsody<\/em> near the end of a two hour concert (did I mention the cash bars stationed at every corner of the really big room?), you’ll never top this version:<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n