Hi all !

I finally had my fist gig last night ! and it went surprisingly well. There are some really nice fellas here who play together for some time and wanted to put up the show. They contacted me 4 days ago and asked if I want to help them with the second guitar. I said yes of course. Fortunately I knew some of the songs that they were playing and we had a hour of rehearsal before the show. It was mostly blues so it was easy to follow but still, it went surprisingly well and I got to play the intro for Voodoo Child

Maybe continue as a band together if everything goes well.
I'll post some pics when I get them.

Oh and my new AMT SS-20 preamp was amazing. I don't know how much of the applause were for my improvisations of for the sound of this thing but it cut through the mix like the knife through butter

Great experience !

Woot!!! Congradulations Rhoads!!

Hey man,

Congratz with your first gig. I remember my first, being very nervous !! It's a difference, right ? : playing at home or in front of an audience. Obviously you had a great time and that's very nice. I've seen all your REC takes and you are a very good guitar player with a lot of talent, so I have no doubt that the public liked what you did !!!! The frequency of your REC takes shows everybody at GMC that you're very very hungry. That's great man !!! Keep that up !!!

All the best

Nico

Those are things that you gonna never forget! Congratulations

ALEX!!! Congrats man! How'd it go? Where did you play? Pics, maybe?

Sweet! Glad your first experience was a good one! Now keep doing more shows!! And take pics so we can enjoy em!

Thanks a lot guys !

So it was an underground bar here in Sibiu, there is a concert there every week or so. The strange thing was that I wasn't that nervous (as I thought I will be) but I was feeling very weak. I don't know why, maybe I wasn't rested enough, or because of the rehearsal before.. I had to drink a liter of mineral water with lots of sugar to get me on the feet. But after that it was all good.

We started with the Chameleon song from Herbie Hancock just to get in the groove and the and then Voodoo Child ( where I got to play the intro ) and everybody got on their feet and start cheering and it was I got on steroids )

I am still waiting for the pictures though. I'll post them these days

Heeeeey, congratulations Alex !!

Look forward to seeing the pics !

Finally ! Some pics

Ahaa you're playing with Dragos the bass player do you know One Side Real Day?

He he, small country Yes, of course I know them

Their drummer is my neighbor now and I used to talk a lot with Adi, the vocalist his sister is a good friend of Mira's

Wow congratulations on your first gig! Place looks great too - I played in a similar looking bar. It's always great when you get a feedback from the audience - it boosts your playing considerably

That's a cool looking venue !

Congrats! The pics look great, too!

wow - what was the sound like? The ceilings are like you're playing in a tube - that's gotta cause some interesting sound wave collisions!

and you can smoke in public venues there huh? It's outlawed here in California. If you wanna smoke, you gotta step outside like 25 feet away from the entrance of the venue. Haven't seen any smoke in a restaurant or bar in 20 YEARS.

congrats dude! you look good on stage!