We had quite a night in Murrieta for Guitar Center’s “Battle Of The Blues 2012” last night!<\/p>\n
Fortunately, between Laura and I we were able to capture all of the winning contestants on video… but the audio is of varying quality due to the different cameras we used.<\/p>\n
First round: After all 6 of us playing our solos over backing tracks the result was a 3 way tie which has never happened before that store.<\/p>\n
Here are the 3 videos from the first round – Me, Daniel Newell (great player at 17 years old), and Sultan (he just goes by Sultan so that’s all I have.)<\/p>\n
Here’s my attempt using the “Slow Down Blues” jam track.<\/p>\n
[youtube_sc url=”http:\/\/youtu.be\/7p149qQACwM”]<\/p>\n
Daniel’s attempt<\/p>\n
[youtube_sc url=”http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SlP-Qz2lkjk”]<\/p>\n
And Sultan<\/p>\n
[youtube_sc url=”http:\/\/youtu.be\/4ptj7BkVDOU”]<\/p>\n
Now, as I said the result was a 3 way tie. So the next part is a “Guitar-Off” type of tie-breaker where each of us just plays for 2 minutes with no backing track. I elected to go groove and play something to try and get the crowd clapping along and have some fun with this:<\/p>\n
[youtube_sc url=”http:\/\/youtu.be\/-at5n9lXu2c”]<\/p>\n
And now Daniel’s tie-breaker<\/p>\n
[youtube_sc url=”http:\/\/youtu.be\/sjJUnxTmp0s”]<\/p>\n
And finally Sultan’s tie-breaker<\/p>\n
[youtube_sc url=”http:\/\/youtu.be\/nEnhgZqp5YY”]<\/p>\n
The result? Daniel got the final nod from the judges and moves on to the next round.<\/p>\n
I did have fun and there were several BGU’ers out that night so having some extra crowd support was great!<\/p>\n
The big question I suppose is, will I do this again next year? Well, every year I say I won’t, but I usually end up doing it by the time it comes around. So ask me next April and we’ll see what happens \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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