That's right bow to me!
Why was this man bowing?  Well, you're about to see in a
moment because today I wanna share with
you a clip from one of my live shows of
one of my absolute favorite things to
perform the Musical Mind-Reader.
By far one of my absolute favorite
things to perform whenever I have a live
band present at an event, and the fun
part about it is that the band has
absolutely no idea how it works.
Every member of the audience is asked to
write a song request for the band on
little slips of paper.  Those slips are
placed into a large glass bowl on the
very front of the stage where they
remain in view the entire time.
Several blindfolds are examined by a
member of the audience and set aside on
the table.  Then one at a time randomly
selected audience members are invited to
come onstage and freely and randomly
select one of the slips containing a
song request.  They then write the song
title on a display board facing the
audience.  Keep in mind at no time neither
I nor any member of the band ever see
what is written upon the board.  Neither
is anything spoken or communicated
non-verbally.  In fact, I am blindfolded
completely upstage and keep my back
towards the audience.  No gestures or
signals of any kind are made and there
is no one present in the audience
sending signals for messages of any kind. I use no stooges, confederates or plants
in the audience.  Yet one by one the band
is able to not only know but play the
song requests that the individuals are
thinking of.  To then make things even
more ridiculous, the band are handed the
blindfolds that were just examined
earlier and they placed them on as we
get ready for the finale.  The clip you're
about to watch is from a live
performance for a large corporate
banquet I did in a Casino ballroom some
time ago.  One man in the audience was so
confounded that he challenged me to let
him come up on the stage and see it for
himself.  This is what happened.
Who wants to do the LAST one?  You know I do, cause I'm suspicious!
[laughter and applause]
He thinks I've got eyes in the back of my head or something!
Here's what I want you to do, sir.  Your name is Ross?  Or Russ?
It's Russ.  Russ? Okay.  Here's...
[laughter]
Here's what you're gonna do.
In fact, I want you to go give these blindfolds to each of the band members.
We're gonna really up the ante a bit on this.
We're gonna give them each a blindfold which there gonna wear.
In case you're thinking maybe I'm sending them a signal of some kind or some electronic thing
or someone in the audience is cueing them in.  I guarantee there's nothing of the
kind.  So here's what I want you to do, sir.  I want you to reach in we're going to pull out
one last slip--a green slip.  Toss these
away.  And, you're gonna reach in, just dig around
and just pull out a green slip and hold onto it.  I just want you to know that this is not a "bowl."
A bowl?  Okay.  A glass tube.  So just grab ONE.
ONE slip?  You got ONE slip?  Let me see it, just hold it up!  Just hold up the slip.  Okay.
Set these aside.   With R.S. back here.
Here's what I want you to do, sir.  I want you to...got your slip?
And I'm going to endeavor.  Here's your sharpie.  Have you looked at it yet?
Not yet, no!
Okay.  I'm gonna put this on.  Now band I want you...they've already got theirs on. Okay, awesome.
[laughter]
So that...I love this kind of improv-type stuff.
Here's what I want you to do sir.  You're gonna take a look at...I'm gonna look away
And we're not going to say a word.  I want you to just open up your slip, concentrate on whatever it
is written on there to draw it on the board. Again, audience do not mouth it, do not say anything cause
this time I'm not even going to say any
special words I'm not going to do
anything; gesture or anything.  I'm just 
gonna be like this.
Let me know when you're done, sir.
Yep.
Okay.
[laughter]
Want you to do me a favor, sir.  If you've written it down, go ahead, put the marker down and have a seat.
Give it up.  Give him a round of applause!
[applause]
Alright.
Okay, boys.  HIT IT!!
[Band immediately starts playing Johnny B. Goode]
[laughter and clapping to the beat of the song]
Give it up for these guys, they're wonderful aren't they!
I'm Curtis The Mentalist!  Thank you so much!
They were a lot of fun and I really
enjoyed performing for them.  Thank you
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