and “Feel Like Making Love”) says he asks only two things of his campers: show up on time, and make sure you’re in tune. “You’d be amazed at the amount of time that’s wasted because Joe Blow hasn’t tuned his bloody guitar,” says Kirke, who will be attending his seventh camp in Las Vegas this month (other scheduled guests include Joe Walsh, Mötley Crüe singer Vince Neil and Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash). “I’ve come to an age now where I like to give something back,” says Kirke, explaining his ongoing involvement in the camp. “And it’s very flattering when people come up and say, ‘I grew up with your music, and by the way, how do you play this, or what’s the chord structure to that song?’ It’s part of my makeup now,” he adds. “I just want to impart some of my knowledge to people who have a desire to improve their playing.” And sure, some camp attendees indulge in the rock and roll lifestyle while away
from their families. Not that they get any sympathy from guys like Kirke— who, with his 70s peers, practically invented the concept of rock and roll debauchery—when they show up for rehearsals hung over. “Every camp, I’ve had some relative youngsters who come dragging their arses in the next morning, and they’ve been in the bar until one in the morning . . . and if only they knew what we went through in the 70s. My God,” says Kirke, who has completed the 12-step program. “They couldn’t hold a candle to us.” Dalrymple says he was content to simply have a few beers and mingle with his
fellow campers and counsellors, even occasionally throwing some good-natured jibes at counsellors like KISS guitarist Bruce Kulick and Slaughter guitarist Mark Slaughter. “I would walk by them and say, ‘You need any help with the guitar, or are you OK?’” he says. “They were just laughing. I don’t think there was an egotistical person there. When you actually sit down and start talking to them, they’re just regular people,” he says. “This is fun for them too, and each one of them has told me that.” Dalrymple says he’s already considering attending a third camp in 2008—if he can get his wife to agree. “It’s not something that you do once and say, ‘Okay, that’s as good as it’s ever going to get,’” he explains. “That’s what I thought with the first one, but when I went to the second one it was even better. I could do this every year.” There may still be no cure for the summertime blues. But Dalrymple seems to have come up with a pretty effective wintertime prescription.
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