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Posted by: Ben Higgins Jul 10 2011, 10:20 PM

Hi Guys, my band The Reckoning played a gig Saturday night and here's an audio track of us playing Phantom Of The Opera by Iron Maiden. It's rough and the audio is from the mic of the video camera !! So be kind.. buuut the really cool thing is that GMC's very own Chris Evans was filling in on second guitar ! He drove for over 3hrs to play the gig and he is an absolute star for doing it.. thank you Chris !!



Here is the thread where I mentioned that we're looking for another guitar player.. Chris is helping us out again later this month but in the meantime we're still looking for a permanent member as we can't make him drive all around the country with us !!

http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/guitar_forum/index.php?showtopic=39716

Posted by: The Uncreator Jul 10 2011, 10:30 PM

That was actually pretty awesome man, sound quality wasn't too bad. Nice to hear, this was like the first song I learned back in the day that I considered "difficult"

Nice job as well Chris

Posted by: Chris Evans Jul 10 2011, 10:52 PM

heheh that wasnt too bad was it

what a great night, not only did I get to meet Ben and the rest of the guys in the band, I got to play the whole gig with them, and double bonus I get to do it all again at the end of the month, cool

Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic Jul 10 2011, 11:12 PM

That's awesome guys, it's great to get together and share the stage! Thumbs up!

Posted by: Daniel Realpe Jul 11 2011, 02:01 AM

nice guitar tone! great one guys!

Posted by: Ben Higgins Jul 11 2011, 08:37 AM

Thanks everyone ! Yes, not bad for just the camera's mic !

Chris was playing his sexy new blue Charvel as well....

Posted by: MickeM Jul 11 2011, 12:57 PM

Sounded very convincing Paul Di Anno Maiden era, really! Great band!

Chris, just fabolous! Pulling an entire gig off from "distance", especially after 3 hours behind the wheel that's worth mentioning too.

Posted by: Chris Evans Jul 11 2011, 01:26 PM

thanks Micke, it was a long drive, it shouldnt have been as long as that (it took me just over two hours to get home) but traffic getting there was terrible!

I had plenty of time to relax before the gig not to mention the rather tasty pizza and mug of tea that Ben`s girlfriend Ninna had kindly supplied me with

The biggest task has been learning the songs in such a short space of time, but Ben has been there either on email or skype to help with any parts and has also supplied me with anything and everything I`ve needed in terms of GPro files etc, of course playing with a band that I hadnt even met before let alone practiced with was daunting but the guys were excellent and it all fitted nicely in my opinion

Posted by: Sinisa Cekic Jul 11 2011, 02:15 PM

Great ,great ,RockOoooooooooon !!

Posted by: Kristofer Dahl Jul 11 2011, 02:19 PM

Haha wow amazing - you guys are really tight! Loved the pic with Ben and Chris as well!

Posted by: K1R Jul 11 2011, 02:25 PM

Awesome As it is from camera mic, is there any video of it?) Chris is hero here, learned the songs and travelled such a big distance to help you

Posted by: Ben Higgins Jul 11 2011, 03:03 PM

The footage was quite dissapointing as so many people got in the way of the cam, plus they turned the lights off in the room so it doesn't look very good :-( But we hope to get better footage of our next gig with Chris in just under 3 weeks time



Thanks Kris.. yes two GMC members meeting in the flesh !