After watching this video (below, read story first), I threw up in my mouth a little. When I was 12 hockey, getting into trouble and girls were my main topics of interest. I was dead set on becoming a Hockey player. I even threatened to run away to Canada because Omaha was a terrible hockey town. Trouble, well that just always seemed to find me. I got pretty bad luck. Girls, I was doing all right at that point in my life but wanted a new reason to step my game up. Guitar. "Chicks LOVE musicians. They get laid all the time." Said my dirty little mind. Well, with some help from friends, I figured out chords and "Day Tripper" within the first few weeks. I got better, mainly by listening to my favorite music and figuring out what they are playing by ear. It did alright, I suppose.
Fast forward to now. I play rhythm guitar (hopefully soon have some leads) in Harlott (www.harlottrock.com). We're a pretty fuckin bad ass rock band. I'd say we have a strong rock sound, not pussy stuff that's generally classified as "rock" these days. And we usually blow people away. We get the "Wow, why aren't you guys playing arenas" comments and the "Did I just get my ass kicked, I'm pretty sure your band just kicked my ass" comments. Actually, I made up the last one, but we've had similar comments. Anyway, the point I'm trying to get to is I don't consider myself a bad guitarist. But I'm not GREAT by any means.
So today I google worst guitarist. Why? Fuck if I know. Maybe it's my new obsession, finding people that are awful at things and laughing at them. Then why the hell did I find this? I was searching through some pretty awful guitarist when I found someone that commented "You think he's bad, check out this chick". Apparently that was Eddie Van Halen that made the comment, cuz she does NOT suck. I'm sure there are better ones out there, but you're missing the point. She's 15, I'm 27.
For a while I thought I could rip up the neck. I could play a little bit of "Eruption" about 10 years ago. F that, I suck. So, next years goal? Shred a little more. Maybe I'll get some dignity back.
It could be worse, I could be THIS GUY!!!!
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