role model
this whole guitarshredshow thing as well as the boxing of my old photo prints got me thinking about my guitar hero years. as a teenager, I spent most of my spare time playing the guitar. I played in several bands (with such cool names as "fulminant", "headache", "abbots bromely horn dance", "bb crew", and "point of view") and rehearsed every free minute. my rehearsing location was in a costume storage room (very good for acoustics) which in turn was in a former slaughterhouse (very bad for ambiance).
I mostly rehearsed two-handed tapping. not because this is something anyone would actually want to listen to, but because jennifer batten was my superhero and jennifer is miss-two-handed-tapping. for non-guitarreros, jennifer was jacko's-big-haired-guitar-player:
in the early 90ties, michael jackson was still famous for his music, and jennifer rocking the superbowl in 1993 was among 100 greatest moments in guitar history:
so jennifer batten was my guitar hero role model. luckily, she wasn't my webdesign role model.
