Originally Posted by: haghj500Kasperow,

I'm thinking you may want to learn more than one song in the 6 weeks. Reason: If they do pick you up, you will have to learn a lot of songs in a short period of time to be ready to hit the stage with them. If you have one song down and 2 or 3 more kind of worked out you will be in a better position to impress them and cut down what you have to learn before you're ready for the stage.

I would wish you luck, but if you are ready you will not need it. Go rock them.[/QUOTE]
Good point. I just didn't want to set too high expectations for myself until I find out how easy or hard the songs are. The more of their songs I can learn before rehearsing with them, the better for everyone involved. Like you say, I'll have less songs to learn before being gig-ready, and I won't be holding them back as much. I don't intend to focus too much on their solos just yet. I'll rather improvise some of my own in the beginning.

[QUOTE=VinceMarrone]If you really want this gig, you should learn all of their tunes you can listen to. Learn them as well as if you were there when they wrote them. Learn them inside out and upside down and work on some cool parts you can put in there to make them sound even better. As long as you have an amp that sounds OK, don't worry about the gear. You can buy that later. If you make it sound like you are the only one who can play those tunes as well as them, guess what? You will be playing those tunes and more with them. There will not even be another choice of guitarists in their mind. You will be the ONLY choice for them.