We're All In The Mood For a Melody

This month, a local creative group I belong to called The Placer Creative Community posed a creative challenge to it's members in which a theme or subject is chosen and the members contribute a related creation by means of whatever their artistic talents may be. The theme settled on for this month's challenge was, "I love this bar". At the group's last meeting we were talking about some local entertainment establishments that are coming soon to our community, Toby Keith's "I Love This Bar" being one of them, and somehow "I Love This Bar" seemed like as good a theme as any!

My contribution is based on the fact that I love piano bars. I love the way that great songs banged out by amateur piano singers are somehow great enough to bring an entire establishment of patrons together in sing-a-long appreciation. For my cast of characters, I could think of no better source than the regular crowd from Billy Joel's "Piano Man". There's, John at the bar who's quick with a joke. Paul, the real estate novelist. Davey who's still in the Navy. The waitress, ever practicing politics and the old man making love to his tonic and gin. But of course, let us not forget the man we've been coming to see, to forget about life for a while.

Josh