A Tweet Came In And What Did I See?

I LOVE Twitter – Love it! I love the whole Internet “social” scene, and let me tell you one more reason why.

Last night I came home from my sons football dinner, I was full of pizza as if it was Thanksgiving, tired and was about to go to bed early when all of a sudden I get a Tweet via @calilewis to my iPhone to join her for a live online convert on Ustream.

I was intrigued, and decided why not go check it out to see what Cali is talking about. I arrived to the stream looking at a guy by the name of Geoff Smith playing his guitar in his home and singing. At first I was wondering what the heck, what’s the fuss all about? That question only lasted about two minutes as I just sat back and enjoyed the music Geoff was performing.

Geoff is one talented individual, he went from playing the guitar to the piano, singing any song people in the chat room asked for, and in my opinion he sang most of the songs as good if not better than the originals.

The vibe I had initially was feeling as if I was in a dueling piano bar, you know 2 guys rocking the pianos playing anything you can think of by request, but there was only one guy, a piano and a guitar! I guess where the vibe came in from was in watching and participating in the chat room. People were giving cyber tips in his cyber jar as they requested music, and cyber clapping and singing along in the room all while I was tapping my feet and singing along to most of the songs he was performing. 

I found myself watching Geoff for at least an hour… and as he was performing I was sending tweets out trying to get as many people there as possible to see this amazing artist perform live! @calilewis was doing her best to get 1000 people to watch the stream live and I was tweeting to help in the effort and I know brought a couple of people to the stream. At most however, I think there was around 300 people watching, but 300 people to perform in front of is a concert in my eyes… and this was online!

Geoff did a great job playing to the camera making you feel as if you were right there in the room with him. He even did some fun sound effects with his voice during a few performances that seriously made me laugh out loud.

Anyway, I just wanted to give a shout out to @calilewis who is one of my favorite pod-casters over at www.geekbrief.tv and say thanks for sending the tweet inviting to the stream, and a huge thanks and mad props to Geoff Smith himself for putting on a great show! I can not wait to watch him perform again! In fact, I read in the room he is doing a Christmas concert online… that should be awesome!

Below is an embedded video of his show from last night. Click play, and enjoy!

You can also follow Geoff Smith on his website www.thegeoffsmith.com and on Twitter @geoffsmith

If you get an alert from Geoff or Cali via Twitter he is going live, drop what you are doing and go watch. Trust me, Geoff Smith is so fun to watch live!

Until next post…

- Doc