Just a follow up, last thursday I had a bad night.
Friday jammed with another group, drums, bass, 3 guitars, keys and this chick singer and everything we did was like butter. Ussually when you get 3 guitarist in a room its a cluster f**k, but in this situation it worked. Bill kinda held down the big open chords, I went for inversions around the middle of the neck on my LP and Billy was playing a strat and filling the gaps. Just had this massive wall of sound, and everyone was respective when it came to playing solos. I just wish I had a recorder for that one.
Sat Ive been playing with this garage band, a guy I went to HS with, who over time has become a pretty good guitarist. We play classic rock, southern rock and I guess you would call it outlaw country. The bassist got a new 5 string bass and asked me to eq his setup, which I did and in my mind it sounded a lot better. Then my buddy from HS asked me to set his amp up and the pa, so I was able to get rid of all the little obnoxious feedback issues, and we sounded a lot better, this group I have a lot of fun cause Im basically the lead singer on top of everything.
Last night monday we had our open mic, which was really cool. With the weather man of our regular people didnt show up, so being the house guitarist I get a lot more playing time than usual. So at one point the bassist got into this fusion type vamp and we just went off for about 10 minutes. The guy that runs the open mic, said afterward, man Ive never heard you play like that before, you were wailing, and hes a guy that sings in one of the best local rock bands in my area. I thought I was slightly off, but everyone there was patting us all on the back afterwards, I kinda went into my Jeff Beck mode, I was playing my Ibanez with the locking trem so I was pulling notes in and out of key so to speak.
Kinda weird last thursday I was all down on myself and today or last night I felt great.
Music is a roller coaster
Friday jammed with another group, drums, bass, 3 guitars, keys and this chick singer and everything we did was like butter. Ussually when you get 3 guitarist in a room its a cluster f**k, but in this situation it worked. Bill kinda held down the big open chords, I went for inversions around the middle of the neck on my LP and Billy was playing a strat and filling the gaps. Just had this massive wall of sound, and everyone was respective when it came to playing solos. I just wish I had a recorder for that one.
Sat Ive been playing with this garage band, a guy I went to HS with, who over time has become a pretty good guitarist. We play classic rock, southern rock and I guess you would call it outlaw country. The bassist got a new 5 string bass and asked me to eq his setup, which I did and in my mind it sounded a lot better. Then my buddy from HS asked me to set his amp up and the pa, so I was able to get rid of all the little obnoxious feedback issues, and we sounded a lot better, this group I have a lot of fun cause Im basically the lead singer on top of everything.
Last night monday we had our open mic, which was really cool. With the weather man of our regular people didnt show up, so being the house guitarist I get a lot more playing time than usual. So at one point the bassist got into this fusion type vamp and we just went off for about 10 minutes. The guy that runs the open mic, said afterward, man Ive never heard you play like that before, you were wailing, and hes a guy that sings in one of the best local rock bands in my area. I thought I was slightly off, but everyone there was patting us all on the back afterwards, I kinda went into my Jeff Beck mode, I was playing my Ibanez with the locking trem so I was pulling notes in and out of key so to speak.
Kinda weird last thursday I was all down on myself and today or last night I felt great.
Music is a roller coaster
"A winks as good as nod to a blind man"