Clutch that matey! XVI

Hmm.

Today's late night gig wasn't as well as I had planned... but much of it had to do with the fact there was an inexistant audience and also the fact that I played about five songs, two on my SG and three on the acoustic.

I brought down my SG so as to have a shot at playing lead guitar with Gerry for the song 'All Along The Watchtower' in a psuedo-Dylan-rhythm-Hendrix-lead kind of song. It was relatively jittery for me especially since I really couldn't hear myself over Gerry's acoustic guitar and with Tom's mandolin piercing right over everything. Nothing against Tom, his mandolin playing surpasses my meagre mandolin rhythm skills by leaps and bounds.

Thing is, imagine standing there, with a group of people expecting you to come up with something most incredibly wonderful with that wicked-looking guitar in your hands. Then Gerry starts up all of the sudden and Tom whacks in with the mandolin... you know your guitar tone is somewhat there, but you can barely hear yourself due to the interference from the other two instruments.. it was crazy, but I pulled it off, and Mike said my lead sound was really good, and the guitar playing was 'like hendrix or something'.

Oh well, sometimes you win and sometimes you lose... and 'Highway to Hell' was even more whacked because I didn't really like the rhythm tone, and also my guitar was somewhat out of tune. Then I broke my pick, and I even did a pick scrape with it, and by the end of the song, it looked like something which a dog had chewed on, spat out and kicked into a grinder.

I just hope next week goes much better than today.


Cheers,

Crawldaddy