OK, I give up. I get it -- nobody's out to hear some guy playing music at the mall in the afternoon. Fortunately, I don't have any more afternoon gigs booked, and now that I'm fully convinced that they're *not*, in fact, "better than nothing", I won't book any more.
I was expecting the new big round stage over the fountain again, but apparently they're reserving the right to decide to just use the old little square one. Makes sense -- that big one is a lot of trouble, and they'll probably only use it when it's appropriate, either a bigger band, or a "bigger" name band. That's fine with me.
It was hot, but not miserably so like last time. And there were a few people out, but it was hopeless to get anything going with them. I had a brief fun time with one of the many young girl soccer teams that came by, but they took off to go get some overly-sugared juice after only a few songs.
And I had a guy perceptively ask me about the harmony box, and another guy came up and told me that he had been in a folk-song band back in the sixties, but that he'd never learned to fingerpick like me. It's always fun to talk to other musicians, however briefly.
I did make $20, which is an all-time low, I think, but still not so bad. Last time I had inexplicably sold almost all of the CDs that I had in stock, so I spent the morning making up a bunch of them, only to sell absolutely none. Maybe it was 'cuz the fountain stage is out in the flow of traffic? Probably just the random nature of the thing...
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