{"id":567,"date":"2008-11-01T19:35:46","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T23:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/guitar\/?p=567"},"modified":"2011-07-19T00:08:05","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T04:08:05","slug":"playing-guitar-with-counterpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/guitar\/2008\/11\/01\/playing-guitar-with-counterpoint\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing Guitar with CounterPoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--CusAds--><p>So on Thursday Oct. 30 I was jamming with <a rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/counterpointonline\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ext-link\">Counterpoint<\/a>!<\/p>\n<div class=\"c354d1e329b235f1862b41000f5a4d18\" data-index=\"4\" style=\"float: right; margin:10px 0 10px 10px;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-3375789278566919\";\r\n\/* guitar_inpost_250x250 *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"1025806729\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 250;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>This is the band that was playing in the <a rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/nuancegta\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ext-link\">2008 Nuance Art Rock festival<\/a>. This experience was one that I will remember for years to come.<\/p>\n<p>The guys in CounterPoint are looking for a guitar player that will help round out their unique sound. As you&#8217;ve read in some of my other posts on this blog and on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guitarlicksandtips.com\/2008\/10\/14\/counterpoint-at-the-2008-nuance-show\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" class=\"ext-link\">Guitar Licks and Tips<\/a> site, I have been very excited about how these guys approach song writing and how they play, because they achieve that BIG FAT sound that I LOVE.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_585\" style=\"width: 180px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-585\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-585 \" style=\"border: 5px solid white;\" title=\"counterpoint\" src=\"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/guitar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/counterpoint.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"127\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-585\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The guys from CounterPoint<\/p><\/div>\n<p>They asked me if I wanted to jam\/try out for the guitar player role for these masters of progressive rock, when I saw them that fateful night at the show. I hummed and hawed about this for months it seemed (really it was only a couple of weeks). Then finally one night I said to my wife, what the heck and just threw my hat into the ring! That night I had a lot of trouble sleeping. In the back of my mind I was saying to myself <strong>Am I really ready for this?<\/strong><\/p><!--CusAds-->\n<p>We then set a date to get together. It was delayed a few times because of this, that and the other thing, but finally we got together.<\/p>\n<p>When we sat down in the rehearsal hall, Rising Star Studios, I was finally relaxed. You couldn&#8217;t find a nicer bunch of guys. We sat and talked for a while, they even brought a couple of beers to make the jam more relaxing, nice touch.<\/p>\n<p>I just stuck to my coffee because I had the songs that I went through at home in my old brain box running in overdrive and I didn&#8217;t want to mess anything up! 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