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Thank you, Toney.
You have helped me and many others on this forum. Guidance from a professional is more than most of us could hope for.
We appreciate you, sir.
Popster and the Casemonster

"Daisy a Day" by Jud Strunk    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vY5mDmGQIs
I play it in C.

I lost my favorite family member.
A friend told me to separate out my selfish grief at not getting to see her again from my grief for her loss.
That lessened the pain a little.

Our cow wouldn't give us any milk so we sold him.

The crowd shouted, "Olay" as the bull ripped Hernando's Hideaway.

I bought a box of powdered water but I didn't know what to add.

A friend told me my hair is getting thin. I said, "That's O.K., who wants fat hair?"

What do you get when you drop a piano down a mine shaft? Ay flat miner.

Back in the 60's, I played trumpet and trombone in rock/soul bands.
My good wife bought me a guitar and 3 months later, after two lessons at our local music store, I was jamming with local pickers at a country western bar.
I found that learning new (to me) songs was the best way to get better. New tunes are still the best way for me to break out of a picking rut. A new song will usually teach me new chords and inversions as well as how they should be used.
I will soon be 68 and it takes me much less time to figure chords and strum patterns than before. It takes me more time to memorize lyrics than before, darn it.

SouthPaw41L has the right idea. Keep it simple onstage.
My partner, John Reno, jettisoned his piano and all stomp boxes. he plays his Taylor through a stereo chorus all the time and has almost no dead air between tunes. He never takes papers onstage. If he doesn't know it, he doesn't play it. John believes he can do a better job with his eyes on the audience.
I play less often and allow myself a Korg A-4 effects pedal to change the sound of my hollowbody Gibson. I have a play list of memorized tunes that should get me through a four hour gig, but like Toney, I have a fat book with 400 tunes in it on a heavy music stand with a light. I line up and bookmark selections in my book on a break so I can get from one to another quickly.
I fear dead air and tuning loudly onstage. My A-4 pedal has built-in silent tuning.

"It's all good" is an expression used to sum things up that means nothing.
So easily refuted, it is a mystery why so many say it.

We have a local band that made good called "Wet Willie" that used to be called "MOM" which stood for Mobile Overland Motherf#%^@s.

In high school, I played drums in a dixieland band for a Christmas gig at Folsom prison. It was kinda scary.
The inmates liked us but they were allowed to come up on stage and talk to us.
This big scary guy wanted to play my drums and I was not about to say no. He sat down and put his foot on top of my bass drum and pounded 'til his hearts content. Nobody said anything to him including me. I just smiled and nodded until he got down.