Live Acoustic Fingerstyle from the Milford Performing Arts Center, round about 2006, perhaps?

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When I began re-concentrating on my solo acoustic artistry in 2004 or so, I was told that I should attend the Rose Room Revue Open Mike, and that "...they'd love you there!..." so I went and found myself, as always outside the clique that was getting the gigs. of course, having been down that road I resoved to vcontinue attending until such time as I proved my worth...during the year and a half it took before the retard who runs the thing booked me in as a feature, I got to see lots several other rose revue n00bs - who played the usual easy strummin' folky stuff favored by the host, who would often refer to said performers as "monsters" - pass me by and get features, which of couse compounded both my despair, and frustration...one night, driving away from the place, this tune popped out of my head.

I wanna get in the clique
So I can get some gigs
Does it mean i gotta play like this
I wanna get in the clique
So I can get some gigs
Does it mean i gotta play like this

Been in a bunch of rock bands
Most couldn't draw a crowd
With a god-damned box of crayolas
Maybe they was too damned loud
It seems thjat I have cursed myself
It follows me around
Does it mean I have to play like this?

I wanna get in the clique
So I can get some gigs
Does it mean i gotta play like this
I wanna get in the clique
So I can get some gigs
Does it mean i gotta play like this

After some gigs I've been told
My Talent has them floored
But the gig goes to the next guy in line
And I'm hustled out the door
Seems the best art's born of pain
Well pile it on some more
It hurts when I play like this

I wanna get in the clique
So I can get some gigs
Does it mean i gotta play like this
I wanna get in the clique
So I can get some gigs
Does it mean i gotta play like this

This folky stuff it ain't so hard
Fingerstyle I can do
Ya wanna hear me yodel
Well I f***ed your old lady too
Maybe if I was a monster
I'd seem serious and cool

You'd beg me to play like this
You'd insist that I play like this
You bet I'm gonna play like this
I'll be cryin' inside
But I'll play
Just like this
Oh yeah.