Sherry and I spent last night enjoying the blues stylings of co-worker Joe Ferraro and his band playing a short set at the Blue Cafe in Huntington Beach. Joined by a few dozen friends, had a wonderful time out of the office, and seeing the personal and human-side of life. He’s inspired me to begin developing a blues-style of guitar playing. Will definitely keep track of his future gigs.
Well, its been 6 months since I started playing guitar, and here are the songs being worked on - in no particular order. If you are a musician, I’m sure I’m not dazzling you with fantastic chord progressions or frenetic fret-boarding, but I’m having fun:
Badge - Cream
Ramble Tamble - Creedence Clearwater Revival
I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Won’t Get Fooled Again - The Who
Sheena Is A Punk Rocker - The Ramones
Rock and Roll High School - The Ramones
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
House of the Rising Sun - Frijid Pink
Mad World - Gary Jules
Rock and Roll Queen - Mott the Hoople
Sweet Jane - Lou Reed
Working on the chords, arpeggios and trying not to watch the fingers. Probably spend an hour or two each night, and the finger-tip callouses are thickening on the left hand. Starting to sound like music, and when I plug into the practice amp, I can sense a rocknroll-geezer in the making.
