For our grand finale, I sang “I Miss Buffy T.V.S.,” which sums up my feelings about my favorite TV show ever.  We got the crowd singing along, and it was truly a joyous noise of geektacular fandom. Watch my face when I ask the audience to sing along; I’m so happy they actually, like, sang along!  Amazing.

A couple shout-outs:  The backup dancers are, again, the icing on the cake.  Their commitment is truly laudable.  Also, that drummer?  The one who’s been keeping that rock-steady beat this whole time?  Fourteen.  FOURTEEN.  (Or possibly fifteen.  You get my point, though, right?  Incredible.  The whole band is actually really gifted, but the rest of ‘em are in their 30s, so it’s less impressive.)  (Sorry, old people.)

Thanks, Englert Theatre!  Thanks, Joss!  And thanks, you crazy Buffy fans!  We are of one tribe!

This was the first time I ever wore leather pants and afterwords, I was like, Why am I not wearing leather pants every day for the rest of my life?

(Answer: leather pants are not conducive to aggressive cookie-eating.  Their loss.)

This is the second of three clips I’m releasing from last year’s BUFFY LIVES! Tribute night at the Englert Theatre.  This is a song about my favorite character on the show, Xander Harris.  It’s pretty inside baseball, as they say, so if you don’t know who Xander Harris is, you may not dig it.  Then again, I am wearing leather pants.  There’s entertainment value in that simply for the novelty of it.

My favorite thing about this clip is the crowd noises.  Listen for the “Awww…”  Fantastic.

And in the “even more awesome” department, my friends and I performed a few numbers off my I Miss Buffy! Megan Gogerty’s Awesome Tribute Album to kick things off.  It was the first and perhaps only time these songs had ever been performed live anywhere, and it was sort of a magical evening for me.

I’ve been threatening to put some selected video up for about a year now, if only to prove to the world how cool/nerdy we die-hard Buffy fans are, and here’s the first clip.

If you’re not a Buffy fan, then 1) Drop what you’re doing and go watch Buffy; and 2) You should know that “Mister Gordo” is Buffy’s stuffed pig who’s mentioned maybe twice in the whole show.  So this song is less in-jokey and more silly-with-a-Buffy-gloss.

Also?  The backup dancers kinda make the whole show for me.  (Thanks, Schmanglins!)

Enjoy!

But before that happened, Megan Gogerty and the Big Bad did a little rockin‘.

Video will be coming shortly.  Until then, enjoy some of these backstage pics of the band gearing up for their first (and possibly last) live performance of songs from my album.  Dig it!