Thanks for the laugh!! What I need is an amp that goes to 11 :-). I could bring a small model of stonehenge, but that reference would probably be lost too :-(.

Despite the tradeoffs, it's fun so far. "Hard to Handle" got beaten to death here on the radio too back in the early 90's. I haven't heard it in 20 years or so, so I can tolerate it again.

The other guitar players are fixated on playing these songs from the score and getting the parts down as written. My approach has been more to get the general idea down and work out what I/we want to do with it to make it our own. It made me think of you and the frustration you have at times learning covers.

These songs really lend themselves to "making them your own" and exploring. I would bet money that the atists themselves would play different versions in concert from the album versions. I may have more creativity than I thought :-).

Here's a little something that happened that may make you laugh: somebody suggested a blues jam, but the mentor said they try to avoid that. I understand and agree with that. However, when I suggested "I Shot the Sheriff", our mentor thought it was a good idea. I though "oh yeah!..." However, the other guitar players' response was "that song is boring". What!?!?! That could easily be the blues jam you just asked for!!!

So I'm done with song suggestions :-). It's all good...