The Future of Rock? Let's hope! :-)

[Wasabi1264]

My 11 year old daughter as Yoko in a Beatles show at the Paul Green School of Rock Music's School of Rock Festival in Asbury Park, NJ this weekend. This pic during I Want You (She's So Heavy)...her twin brother was playing drums.

[Silver Hammer]

Thats really cool that your daughter plays the bass but you do know she broke up the greatest band ever right?

[Wasabi1264]

Originally Posted by Silver Hammer

Thats really cool that your daughter plays the bass but you do know she broke up the greatest band ever right?

We figured it would be a nice ironic joke. All the boys in the cast were in black skinny ties, and one kid even had a Sgt Pepper coat. So we had to figure SOMETHING out.

[Enden]

Originally Posted by Wasabi1264

My 11 year old daughter as Yoko in a Beatles show at the Paul Green School of Rock Music's School of Rock Festival in Asbury Park, NJ this weekend. This pic during I Want You (She's So Heavy)...her twin brother was playing drums.

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I was supposed to go to that. I wanted to see Ween, badly, but it was my cousin's wedding. Booo.


My goddamn girlfriend got to go, so...I guess she saw your daughter.

[GillesUnchained]

That's awesome that your daughter played in the SOR festival. My singer runs SOR Portland and he took about 20 kids to NJ for the festival. He did a reunion show there with his old band Dandelion.

The School of Rock is great. I've been lucky enough to have some minor involvement and it's a lot of fun. I wish it would have been around when I was 14.

[Wasabi1264]

Originally Posted by GillesUnchained

That's awesome that your daughter played in the SOR festival. My singer runs SOR Portland and he took about 20 kids to NJ for the festival. He did a reunion show there with his old band Dandelion.

The School of Rock is great. I've been lucky enough to have some minor involvement and it's a lot of fun. I wish it would have been around when I was 14.

Carl is a great singer, and Dandelion was excellent. He also is an amazing manager and that Portland school is doing great. I really enjoyed hanging with him this weekend. I manage the Baltimore and DC schools (DC did 80s Hair Metal, which was hilarious).

[GillesUnchained]

Originally Posted by Wasabi1264

Carl is a great singer, and Dandelion was excellent. He also is an amazing manager and that Portland school is doing great. I really enjoyed hanging with him this weekend. I manage the Baltimore and DC schools (DC did 80s Hair Metal, which was hilarious).

That's awesome! Dandelion had no rehearsal, and hadn't played together in years. It's good to hear that they played well. I should give Carl a call tomorrow and ask him how it went.

[Wasabi1264]

You may want to wait until late afternoon ;-) Not much sleep, although his parents outnumbered his students, so he probably didn't have to chaperone like I did. He brought a force to the festival, and yeah, at breakfast, he told me they only did 1/2 hour, but they sounded really good. I love your music (just listened to the MySpace page). Very, very cool.

[GillesUnchained]

Thanks! Carl deserves credit for a lot of that. He does all our recording. Hopefully we'll be doing more of it soon.

[22w1st3d]

how the hell does a 11 year old girl get a MM stingray before i do

[MysticMichael]

Originally Posted by Wasabi1264

This pic during I Want You (She's So Heavy)...

Certainly one of the hippest Beatles tracks ever. Sure hope she was able to do justice to that very cool bass part....

MM

[73jbass]

Whatever you do,save that picture for all eternity! That is priceless! Rock star pose #5?

[lemur821]

Originally Posted by 22w1st3d

how the hell does a 11 year old girl get a MM stingray before i do

Have a bassist for a daddy, perhaps?

[Wasabi1264]

Originally Posted by 22w1st3d

how the hell does a 11 year old girl get a MM stingray before i do

EBay find, and due to the finish, I figured if she lost interest, I could sell it for at least as much as I paid. A lot of parents buy really cheap basses for their kids, and the kids don't want to play them. I'm not advocating buying something like a StingRay for a young kid...there are some really decent low priced basses out there (I just knew I was financially covered), but that's a bass she picks up and plays daily with a lot of love and pride. She also loves my 75 Jazz Reissue and will ask to play that at times, and she is now begging for a Jazz bass of her own (I told her to save her allowance).

And yes...she NAILS those little solos in the breakdowns. Took her a bit to get them. Her twin brother plays drums on the tune, and he did some very cool fills during the end of the song. It was the first Beatles tune I had ever played them, because I didn't want them to think the Beatles were too wimpy and tame after they had spent four months working on Pink Floyd's The Wall.

There is a brother/sister drum/bass combo that graduated from the school, and they were hired by Adrian Belew to be his backup band. They are featured in the movie Rock School. They've been good role models for my kids, because they practice their tails off and sound great at a relatively young age.

Next show is "A Tribute to the Guitar Gods", and so far she's been assigned Hendrix's Axis Bold as Love and a Cream medley of Tales of Brave Ulysses and White Room.

[TaySte_2000]

Originally Posted by Wasabi1264

Next show is "A Tribute to the Guitar Gods", and so far she's been assigned Hendrix's Axis Bold as Love and a Cream medley of Tales of Brave Ulysses and White Room.

I look forward to the afro pics

I wish there was something similar to this when I was young.......er

[moogboy]

YEAH! this is awesme. i love this thread.

[SirCanealot]

Aww, so cute

The bass, not the girl. Hmmph.

Heh, train her well, man

[TaySte_2000]

Originally Posted by SirCanealot

Heh, train her well, man

*Star Wars Voice On* The thump is strong in this one *Star Wars Voice Off*

[SuperSnake2012]

I always liked the bass in I Want You (She's So Heavy). She's lucky to have a Stingray too.