Hi Steve -

Thanks for following my saga.

Our band is organized through a local music store/school. They have a program where they will put together bands based on age group and assign each one a mentor. The mentor is one of the music instructors at the store. Ours happens to be a drummer, though he plays bass too.

It's a relatively new concept here. The School of Rock I think was the first school to do something like this.

The idea is to give people learning rock instruments a way to perform in front of others, much like piano or violin students will play at a recital.