I joked on Facebook about Jerry Garcia not needing lyric sheets for the thousands of songs the Dead performed, and a friend of mine pointed out that Jerry had a teleprompter hidden in one of his monitor wedges, and before that he screwed up lyrics all the time. The idea of glancing at a lyric sheet on stage DOES give me pause. Probably, and I’d love to hear your thoughts too. Is it uncool to have charts or an app on stage? I’d rather minimize those instances while performing, so… I think I’m going to get one of those lyric-scrolling apps for tablet. So with many hours of cover songs plus 100+ originals in my head at any given time, I’m bound to flub a few lines. You gotta get the order right, otherwise the whole rest of the verse is screwed, much like the character in the song. But even in a classic like Squeeze’s “Tempted,” it’s tricky to remember when the dude is buying a toothbrush and when he’s buying a novel. I try not to cover songs if I hate the lyrics. It’s just that the list of cover songs I “know” is getting long enough, and I play each one of those songs infrequently enough, that I just can’t trust myself to remember which nonsense lyric starts the first verse and which inane babbling begins the final one. I’ve gotten to the point where I’m thinking about leaning on a crutch on stage: a lyric app, a songbook, some loose napkins scribbled with a few words, anything. Relying on lyric sheets or chord charts during a performance
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