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VOU CA N'T SOLO FOREVER sed to rehearse and have jam sessions after hours at a little music shop 1opened in Busselton, West Australia. vo uld invite people to play and we would go for it for hours until we were exhausted. One time there was this really nice local guy that was truly a gentleman. He was really into the guitar, but hadn't played with other peopl e very much, 50 1 invited him to jam and he got very excited. On the day of the jam he brought ail his equipment. He had a nice Les Paul and a beautiful Fender amp. He looked like a pro sitting over there across the room from me! We tuned up our guitars and decided we would start with a little blues jam, and of course 1 let him take the tirst solo. Everything went OK (though you could tell he was a bit nervous). He was actually a pretty good musician and 1 was happy to be there with him watching him play his blues licks with some good solid backing. But after he'd been soloing for a few minutes, it became apparent that something was up; he was so into what he was doing, combined with a truly heightened nervous state, he couldn't stop himself from playing! 1 can't remember how we got him to quit playing, but anyhow it was a great spectacle, and 1 was kind of happy to just be there as a witness. The point of the story is that you need to have a plan B when it's not your turn to solo. Vou can't just keep soloing until the band goes home! Be good at being a rhythm guitarist as weil, so you're fun to be around if you want to get into a band.

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