this one time, at rock camp...

jon teague 'n' i dropped in to play "old blues negro" for one of the bands in this week's rock camp sesh at the ridglea. (they play their graduation concert this coming sat'day, 6.30, at 6th street live; next session starts 7.9.) this time out, camp-meister lee allen has help from top-notch instructors joey carter, andrew skates, and john shook. busy tcu faculty member/jazzcat joey seems to have drawn the "pop" band (two girls, one of whom has some keyboard training); when i looked in on his group, they were listening to blur's "song 2" while joey wrote out a chord chart (by ear) so he could teach 'em how to play it. tcu alumnus / confusatron gtrist andrew seemed to have the most advanced musos, who were jammin' blooze (and beatles "come together," shades of impulse of will) pretty much non-stop the whole time my sweetie 'n' i were on the set. (one of andrew's kids in particular had a nice peter green thang goin' on, altho i 'spect the sonic similarity was coincidental.) shook's four gtrists, who are playing stooges "search and destroy" along with skynyrd "simple man" and toadies "possum kingdom," caught on quickly to the sneaky "hidden" chords in "s&d"'s progression, but got antsy when jon took some time to coach the drummer. sorry i'm gonna miss their performance, but hopefully our participation was beneficial to them in some way. my sweetie took some pics 'n' will post 'em later on her blog.