Here's a video of our final mega-jam with Return to Forever on Stanley Clarke's iconic song "School Days." Even watching this now, I can't believe it happened. After a brief run-through during soundcheck, we just jumped right into this madness, and somehow I think it came out pretty good. Considering my heart was pounding through my chest when I had to solo after Stanley, I managed to play some stuff that I'm not completely embarrassed of, you can check that part out starting around 5:45.
What an incredible ending to an incredible tour, not only was it a dream come true to tour with RTF, I got to meet (and play for) a lot of my heroes who happened to be in the audience (Victor Wooten, Vernon Reid, and Chester Thompson just to name a few.) One of the best perks was that after Chick Corea had been sitting in with us on a regular basis I got to the point where I was actually comfortable playing with him, rather than just thinking "holy s#!t I'm playing with Chick Corea!"
Now that I'm back home I have a few awesome gigs coming up before ZPZ heads out to England for some shows. First, Gryphon Labs will be back at Molly Malone's on Friday Novemeber 4th. That's a Friday night, and we go on at 11 pm, so come get your weekend started with us!
Then, I'm really excited to be a part of The Show Must Go On, a Queen tribute with all proceeds going to AIDS Project LA. The band features Brendon Small (Dethklok), Mike Keneally, Bear McCreary (TV composer for Battlestar Galactica, Walking Dead), as well as Joe Travers and Rick Musallam from Gryphon Labs, and many others. This one-time-only show is Nov 9th at the Roxy, get your tickets now!
Wow that was really hot! What a groove you all created!. Love it.
Too cool Pete, what a feeling. Thanks for sharing the video with us. Life is GREAT!
hey pete.these are from the houston show...and the jam cruise
and houston 06...dd
How cool is that? It is awesome when one gets to play with an idol (I felt that when I got to play with you guys on Halloween 2008). You want to impress but you want to be true to yourself -- that tension is remarkable. It either drives one to the heights of creativity or banal narcasistic idiocity (I pray that I didnt fall into the latter -- it is clear that you most certainly found the former).
Awesome stuff Pete.
The Queen Tribute gig with Mike Keneally et al sounds awesome too - if you get the chance please (!) upload vids of that for those of us on the other side of the world :)