Sounds like you and all had fun. Can't wait to see the pictures. Benifits are always good to do. It's like giving back to the community.
A friend of ours runs a music school and hosts a benefit for Oceans of Love every year. The band volunteers to come out, play a couple of sets, and bring some of his students up on stage. We bring extra amps and mics for it.
We had a blast, and the kids had an even better time. There was a couple of kids that came up that had some serious chops! One kid came up with a beat up SG and just ripped. He came up again later and I handed him my Les Paul and told him to have at it while I took a short break. He wailed!
Oceans of Love made a ton of money, and a good time was had by all. The school raffled off a new Ibanez guitar - I'm sure the young lad that won it is sleeping with it tonight. He was grinning ear to ear when he left.
I'll D/L my camera tomorrow morning and post some pics.
Sounds like you and all had fun. Can't wait to see the pictures. Benifits are always good to do. It's like giving back to the community.
Guitars:
Electric: Washburn HB-30, Squier Tele Custom Deluxe, Jay Turser Strat.
Acoustic: Seagull S6.
AMPs: VOX AD30VT, Peavey Envoy 110.
Modelers: V-AMP 2, Digitech RP-100A.
Pedals: Boss RC-2 Loop Station, Boss CE-5 Chorus Ensemble, Digitech Bad Monkey, Ibanez DE7 Delay/Echo, DOD VFX40B 7-Band Graphic EQ, Ibanez CS-5 Super Chorus.
Some pics:
The young lad playing my Les Paul is an excellent guitar player - effortless, smooth, and fluid. The bass player is also dangerous. They rocked on an improvised jam:
Dueling basses! They tore it up with our drummer laying it down for them:
The horn section. They came up for "Call Me the Breeze" and they were excellent. I told our drummer that we have to hire some horn players now. :
All of these kids (and a few older kids) are from the same music school. Most of them have never been up in front of a large audience before and it was great fun jamming with them. There was a lot of smiling faces yesterday!