First gig....

We had our first (unpaid!) gig since Weekend Warriors, and the first with Jed.
O.K., it was Ziggy's 50th birthday party.
He is the baby of the line-up.
It has been nine months coming, but Ziggy has been busy becoming a Bass player after a lifetime on guitar, Jed has had to learn what electric guitar and a band is all about.
Tim hadn't drummed since he was 21 years old, and I suspect he wasn't anywhere near as accomplished as he is now. In the last couple of months Tim has really impressed me with his improvement, and the way he works in with either the Bass or with my guitar playing.

In the context of where we were coming from, it has taken a while to knock together about forty songs, but what makes this band so very enjoyable is that everyone is willing to have a go and share the load, every one of us sings either individually or together, and Jed has a few songs where he plays lead guitar and I comp for him.
The team spirit in this band is exceptional, we don't fight, get on well together, and encourage and support each other.

At the gig, we were a bit patchy, in my description to the others I said we ranged from very good, to terrible , to good, to excellent! I suggested we needed to work on our consistency.
The wry reply was that we could be consistently terrible on all the songs.
With tongue in cheek, I said, yes, we could manage that with a little less effort!
It was good to have that one under our belt, it was a milestone for Jed to play publicly for the very first time in his life, but by the last bracket he was really enjoying himself and was moving and grooving. We were tight and on!
This coming Saturday we have been lucky enough to score four hours in a leading studio with Jed's son engineering as part of an assignment for his audio engineering course.
Another first for the boys and the band, we hope to get a good result and are keen as mustard to be there!