What Year Is It? Fender Strat

[ErikH]

Re: What Year Is It? Fender Strat

Wow, getting in with players older than you is the best thing you can do. You'll not only get lots of playing time but you'll also learn a lot about yourself as a player, how to play well with others, and define your own style over time. That can only benefit you in the long run. My hat's off to you. That is excellent that you're able to do that.

My band does Sweet Home Alabama too. That's actually my daughter's favorite Skynyrd song...lol. She loves to dance to that one. We're a classic rock cover band, touching the 60's through to the early 90's even, but our main focus that we're trying to put together is those great songs that just aren't heard anymore. We still do some of the standards that everybody hears every day but we also have those that haven't been heard in years that people go, "hey, I remember that song." We're still in the practicing stages and getting our lists together and we just got a new bass player so it's taking some time.

 

[rockinangus]

Re: What Year Is It? Fender Strat

Yeah, Next Saturday the older band is playing at this party for 250-300 people. I can hardly wait. I'm ready to shred for that party. I take lessons from a professional guitarist that is in his late forties but is still a kid like me in a man's body. He started playing when he was 12 and turned pro at age 16 and he is phenominal. He teaches at a couple of places here as well as at a comminity college here. He plays in a number of bands and just released a new cd. When he was younger he opened up for Johnny Winter and remember Black Oak Arkansas? Jim Dandy to the rescue? He opened for them to I guess. I am learning how to read and also music theory and all that good stuff.