Introduction Me Bolton

[robaldo]

Hello.

Rob from Bolton, playing ska with a bit of jazz.

I love the irony of having spent many years learning to play jazz (which I now play quite regularly to a handful of 70 year olds at a local club), while the ska stuff that took about fifteen minutes to master gets me up in front of 10,000+ people in festivals everywhere!!!

:S

Pet hates: guitarists. Ack!

 

[Saxlicker]

Welcome Rob!

I love Jazz and also play Ska,

What your Ska band band called?

 

[saxismyaxe]

Hello Rob, and welcome! 🙂

 

[Bobby G]

Hello Rob and welcome. I also love jazz and ska. I've played jazz (not well, as a relative beginner) and would love to play ska/reggae etc. Room for one more in your band's section?

I would agree with your pet hate with one qualification - I like a guitarist who doesn't have to be LOUDER than everyone else put together, yer clipped ska or funk rhythm guitar is fine by me.

Perhaps you should ply your jazz trade down here (Herts & N. London), some of the clubs have an audience with a much lower average age than 70. Well, down around 55, anyway.

Happy blowing, Bob

 

[robaldo]

The band is called 'The Uplifters' (www.uplifters.co.uk)

I never met a guitarist who doesn't have to be louder than everyone else, Bob. What's his name?

 

[Bobby G]

It's me! If I'm playing guitar, I'm very much a rhythm player, or solo acoustic. If I'm playing rhythm, it's almost like my playing would only be noticed if I stopped. I prefer being drawn in by music to being battered around the eardrums, even though I like some loud and wild stuff. It's a matter of approach I suppose. Anyway, this is your intro thread so I'll stop now.

Cheers, Bob

 

[robaldo]

" It's me!"

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh. They all say that!

It'd be like confessing to being a crap driver.

 

[Bobby G]

Yep, I'm a crap driver too.

 

[Pete Thomas]

Hi and welcome to the Breakfast Room. Me too a Ska fan (but I also play guitar quietly but drive quite well)

 

[robaldo]

 

[ken]

Welcome to the forum.

Another guitar player here... I 'ride', be it good, bad or indifferent :S