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Image as a hired gun

Jeordie can play the hell out of a bass, and Aaron North is a sick guitarist, in my opinion. That was a great version of NIN as well. And Aaron's antics and leaps were amazing, for my money.
 
Jeordie can play the hell out of a bass
Didn't mean to imply that he was a hack or anything. I'll tell you, though, I saw Marilyn Manson years ago before "Beautiful People" hit, and either Manson had him on a short leash or he has improved a lot since then. I never walk out on a show but I bailed on that one. Funny how I like NIN really well but I bailed on a band Trent discovered ;)
 
Ok, so I had to look up who these people were on Wikipedia. This seems really stupid to me, since Sha Na Na appears to have been a group that was all about recreating the image of 50s rock. Somebody going into a band like that and refusing to play 50s music is just idiotic.
Well it didn't seem to hurt his career after Sha Na Na canned him. Elliott Randall is a pretty revered name in the world of studio guitarists. And yes, they were definitely a 50's revival band. Had a huge TV show in the 70's. And we still play to pretty large crowds, even though Bowzer's heyday has come and gone. The crowds we get skew to the older side, but we get a fair amount of younger people, too. No moshing, though ;)
 
I'd like to think that Trent isn't so shallow that he picked a guitarist solely on the basis of being able to leap really high. Somewhere in between all the funky hairstyles and leaping about, you have to be able to play the tunes.

Solely? I never said anything like that. Aaron can play the tunes, and he can leap really high. Unlike most other competent folks who were auditioning for the job, Aaron had something great to add to the band's visual aspect.