The very next concert DVD in my NetFlix cue is a Journey concert from 2001, but I got an early taste last night when I had the privilege to see Neal Schon jam with the Miles Schon band at a music store.
It was at a promotional event at Bananas at Large in San Rafael for an innovative, new amplifier company based in nearby Vallejo called Grid1. Neal’s son, Miles, gave an in-store performance with his band at the event. Miles is also a great player. The amp, which was running the whole time on battery power, sounded awesome. It also helped that Miles was playing a killer gold top Les Paul that I believe was a Neal Schon model with a Floyd Rose and some extra switches.
It looks exactly like the guitar Neal is playing in this little clip:
It was at a promotional event at Bananas at Large in San Rafael for an innovative, new amplifier company based in nearby Vallejo called Grid1. Neal’s son, Miles, gave an in-store performance with his band at the event. Miles is also a great player. The amp, which was running the whole time on battery power, sounded awesome. It also helped that Miles was playing a killer gold top Les Paul that I believe was a Neal Schon model with a Floyd Rose and some extra switches.
It looks exactly like the guitar Neal is playing in this little clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDg1pFIytS0
Unfortunately, my BlackBerry doesn’t have a camera, so I don’t have anything to show from the actual event. But there were a lot of video cameras there. If I find any video online, I’ll link to it.
This made me hearken back to the jam I had the honor to be part of a couple years ago with Ross Valory, the bass player in Journey. It’s good to see those guys hanging out and jamming when they’re not on tour. Good stuff.
And Bananas at Large is a fun store. They have a zillion pedals and some cool Zemeitis guitars, including a real beauty that looks like this:
Unfortunately, my BlackBerry doesn’t have a camera, so I don’t have anything to show from the actual event. But there were a lot of video cameras there. If I find any video online, I’ll link to it.
This made me hearken back to the jam I had the honor to be part of a couple years ago with Ross Valory, the bass player in Journey. It’s good to see those guys hanging out and jamming when they’re not on tour. Good stuff.
And Bananas at Large is a fun store. They have a zillion pedals and some cool Zemeitis guitars, including a real beauty that looks like this:
And they also had a wacky Yamaha pseudo guitar with buttons on the fretboard. I've only seen this "guitar" once before, and that was at the Yamaha Music Center in Tokyo. It's a fun little toy. This is a picture of it in Tokyo along with a handsome and talented guitarist:
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