Dad played his guitar,
for years only by himself.
Now makes up lost time.
Back in August of last year I made a blog entry from a trip out to Casco Bay for a family jam session.
Well, these sessions go on year round but usually at my Aunt Sandy's house. I attend them when I'm not booked for a weekend job. We usually have upwards of 20 people attend. This week's PAW (above) comes from the session that we had on Saturday.
Growing up, my instrument has traditionally been a bass guitar (currently a fretless Dean acoustic Performer), but I've been playing a six string guitar (just got an Alvarez professional Folk anniversary 2005 all mahogany...ooooh) at these jams and am learning the mandolin (got a cheap electric Fender to learn on.) I occasionally play the bass if ma tante takes a break.
My dad has played the guitar for as long as I remember and he did very well that he imbued me with my love for music by teaching me to play as a kid, but being hard on himself as a perfectionist, he had always just played mostly by himself or immediate family for a very long time. These sessions now attract a lot of folks who aren't family and they have him out of his long time self imposed shell, having a ball and learning a lot more about his instrument again. I'm proud to say that he can now knock out a lot more wicked lead riffs for quite a number of songs that I'll never figure out on a six string.
Dad with Pete jamming in the background. This was shot hand held in low light at 1/6 of a second, but I liked it (even with motion blur) so here it is. I call it "musicians in funny hats."
(D70 w/18-70 Kit lens)
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