Just finished a gig...
May. 18th, 2019 01:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnny9fingers ... in Rickmansworth with the Ska/Reggae band at a festival held at the local airfield.
A good time had by all. People bouncing up and down and generally enjoying themselves. Given that the Reggae band is a hybrid of professionals and rank amateurs this counts as a win. Everyone tried hard and the few odd dropped beats (not from the drummer, who is an old pro) didn't detract.
And just like the function band they have decided that I must do a difficult bit of guitar, so rather like the function band making me learn EVH's solo from "Beat it" (which they can't play anymore - every cloud...) the Reggae band has decided to play a Reggae version of Hotel California, much like the Moonrakers' take on it. The problem being, of course, that they change key from B minor to F sharp minor. Which makes the bends in the solo much more difficult, as they are fretted close to the nut, rather than in the middle of the fretboard. Ho-hum. The first-finger bends of the C sharp (2nd fret, 2nd string) are probably the most difficult, despite only being half-tone bends.
Anyway, I played all the right notes in the right order (admittedly with some variation in phrasing) so that was all right. If other folk didn't manage that no-one else noticed as everyone was having a good time.
Onwards and sideways.
A good time had by all. People bouncing up and down and generally enjoying themselves. Given that the Reggae band is a hybrid of professionals and rank amateurs this counts as a win. Everyone tried hard and the few odd dropped beats (not from the drummer, who is an old pro) didn't detract.
And just like the function band they have decided that I must do a difficult bit of guitar, so rather like the function band making me learn EVH's solo from "Beat it" (which they can't play anymore - every cloud...) the Reggae band has decided to play a Reggae version of Hotel California, much like the Moonrakers' take on it. The problem being, of course, that they change key from B minor to F sharp minor. Which makes the bends in the solo much more difficult, as they are fretted close to the nut, rather than in the middle of the fretboard. Ho-hum. The first-finger bends of the C sharp (2nd fret, 2nd string) are probably the most difficult, despite only being half-tone bends.
Anyway, I played all the right notes in the right order (admittedly with some variation in phrasing) so that was all right. If other folk didn't manage that no-one else noticed as everyone was having a good time.
Onwards and sideways.
