Jamming with Alan

I got to jam a little with my friend Alan this weekend. This is notable for a couple reasons.

1)Alan is famous for being the rhythm guitarist in the wildly popular, yet short lived Portland band called Netochka, and played at Satyricon which no longer exists.

2) When I began learning guitar in earnest Alan explaind that while open chords were cute and all, I would open a new world of playable music by learning barre chords. I essentially ignored this because barre chords are hard to learn and I felt that I was doing fine without them.

So continuing the "I learn something everytime I sit and play with other people" theme, Alan gave me a quick and dirty barre chord lesson, and explain in his "I'm an engineer so it makes more sense to me" way how practical they are. I beleive that this might have gotten me over the hump as long as I execute on that lesson in the next few days.

Thanks Alan.

Also Alan loaned me a Digitech RP6 DSp pedal to try out. I did a little quick research and the pedal appears to have been introduced in 1996. I am pretty sure that my RP80 is a newer better version of that pedal, but I am anxious to take it through it's paces. Added bonus is that it has a lot of leds, and is way more sturdy than the newer digitech pedals.

Again. Thanks Alan!


The Digitech RP6