Originally Posted by: Steve BarrowGreat chops Rich! Surely you and your bandmates must now include a blues like this in the Radio Gap setlist? It would be a brilliant counterpoint to the rock songs. Anyway, it's lovely stuff - thanks from a huge fan of blues guitar! Steve[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Kasperow]I second this. Your Blues playing is good enough to justify throwing a Blues Jam into the setlist :) Just do like GNR in their early years. Their setlists often contained a Blues Jam before the last song, which is a trend they've taken up again with the current lineup... What's even better, is that this sounds exactly like something I'd expect GNR to pull off before their last song!

After hearing this recording a few more times (okay, maybe a dozen or two), I've found that this thing gets stuck in my head and it just won't go away!

Well, you guys will be happy to know that a blues jam of sorts is being added to our setlist. It seems my bandmates share your enthusiasm for my blues playing. :-) We are working on "I Shot the Sheriff" and they want to vary the song form where we come in quietly playing a verse with me improvising a bunch of mellow bluesy stuff. We then go through the song as usual, and then I get to blues jam at the end over a verse, which is pretty long in this song - a good 10 bars to put the tubescreamer (emulated) to work. We started working on this a couple of days ago and it sounds *really* cool!! Hopefully it wasn't a fleeting moment of inspiration. I'll be sure to share a recording once we have a clean full take or a performance of it. It will probably be a couple of weeks.

I find myself humbled and flattered at the same time that they wanted it this way. It will be really interesting to see how this goes over with an audience. *That* will be the true test.