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Sounds good. And it seems to be a sax player with the right attitude to RockSax. The shirt and the hairstyle is also important ingredients to get the right groove. I play better à la Clarence Clemons in my armless red sweater.
I know some musicians, and some are teachers as well, that could help you.
The drummer in our band is former "hard rock" drummer. He played on quite big arenas in Berlin back in the late 60's ans 70's. He wanted to play some Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin ... songs so we decided to play "Smoke On the Water". It was so hard for me to get the sax into the song. I was also trying to play a solo. We played SOTW in concert A. I had my friend over for a RockSax workshop and I asked him what I should do. He took the sax and played the solo and also demonstrate how to play along with electric guitar to make it more interesting. It sounded so good. He cut the solo up into pieces and explained what to think of; use the B blues scale as frame/ground (B D E F F# A, just one sharp!), the necessary repetition is important, through in some other tones, don't play it cheerful and no big intervals ..... and the cooperation with the electric guitar; practice to keep it "short" and nail every tone, the high baffle mouthpiece with lots of edge and cut through is helping up a lot ...... . With this I just want to point out that it's possible to play and think out of the frames with the right support. Lots of competent Rock sax players here on CS. But to meet the right person in real life is better.
I often wonder: If a sax teacher, with jazz background, have place for one more student before the schedule is full. One student wants to learn/play jazz and the other wants to learn/play Rock & Roll Saxophone. Who will the teacher choose?
