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After years of searching for a band, I joined an AC/DC cover band as Malcolm (rhythm guitarist). We only had 3 practices which I don't think went all that well (though I'm a perfectionist). Anyhow, the leader (the Angus lead guitarist) set up a gig at a biker hangout. I was told there probably wouldn't be very many people there. As I walked up, there were tons of bikers outside eating and drinking. Anyhow, we were to do an entire set of Back in Black. The next pic is from the stage as I was setting up before everyone came back inside. The best part was that there were 5 Marshall stacks permanently on stage, so I just plugged into one of them. I ended up bringing my Gibson ES-335. In hindsight I wished I hadn't because I sweated all over it! Here's a pic of the stage from Facebook. Unfortunately, it was snapped just as the bass player on the right stepped in from of me! You can kind of see me behind him with the burst 335. After the last song, I was already putting my guitar in the case when the owner told us to do an encore. We argued a little bit on stage of what to do. Our lead guitarist wanted Whole Lotta Rosie and I wanted Highway to Hell. The singer sided with me, so we did Highway to Hell, and it ended up being our best song IMHO! The lead guitarist didn't even know how it started, so that's me at the beginning. But the mono recording of the show was on the other side of the stage, so the other guitarist is more predominant on the recording. The song files are here (the originals were not very audible so I did some stuff on my DAW to juice them up and make them more stereo): www.soundcloud.com/capmsworkingfiles Long story short, it was fun as heck and I can't wait to do it again. The toughest part of live playing is not dealing with your own errors (and I don't think I had any), but with others. When the drummer skips a beat, singer comes in early, or even our lead guitarist accidentally skipping the Back in Black guitar solo, you have to figure out how to get yourself and everyone else on cue. I still had to call out some things to the bass player, and a couple of times I had to cue the drummer on some things since we had only played together once. Lots to work on, but all in all I think it's something we can build on!

I was yearning for a proper (humbucker ) Gibson SG! I'd been searching, preferably for an ebony-colored one. However, this one came up and it was too good to pass up, so I offered him a bunch less but we met in the middle (though a little closer to my price). It's Gibson's High Performance (HP) version of the SG Standard, - this is 2017. Pickups are the Classic 57's. Mint, including plastic on the metal case. The color is called "cherry burst" which I love - from the front it''s a burst, but looks ebony from the back. Ready to rock!

Happy Birthday, enjoy your present.

Wow, that is gorgeous! Happy Birthday and enjoy your lovely guitar. ?????

Congratulations on both the birthday and the beautiful new guitar!?

Very pretty??... enjoy?. Happy b'day too?

congrats on birthday and sweet guitar

Nerves were 0 beforehand, maybe 2-3 out of 10 beforehand, only because I knew the material so well. What nervousness I did have was over the fact that the lead guitarist doesn't know the material as well.

Wow, that's fantastic Cap. I had a listen and it sounds great too. How were your nerves? Have you got the next gig planned? Ian