Solo piano gig, 4/17/08

Tonight, my goal is to play three albums back to back.

I've never done Pink Floyd's Animals before. There are five songs on
it, the first and last of which are short and nearly identical. The
middle song is the one I've been playing with the G Tones and talked
about earlier on this thing. It's the second and fourth ones that I've
never played in full before. But I just saw a band called Several
Species play Animals the full way through at a show last month, so I'm
belatedly inspired by that.

I'm going to gear myself up for this occasion by first playing another
classic album the whole way through. That's the Beatles' Abbey Road.
Now, I've played this album by myself a few times in full before, and
the B-side medley portion with a band a number of times, but never
with all the lyrics printed out. (Oh, and I'm adding "Don't Let Me
Down" to it, even though it doesn't belong there. It fits musically in
between "Sun King" and "Mean Mr. Mustard.")

After Animals, I will play another Pink Floyd album straight through.
The Dark Side of the Moon is another one I've played in full before,
both with groups and without, but never with my own set of lyrics
printed out.

So it'll be a night of challenges but a night of fun. I'll pull it
off. And whenever I can't remember parts of songs -- Animals' fourth
track, "Sheep," is the one song that will probably screw me up the
most -- I'll just jam.