FrederickRM

Just entered a contest to play at Eric Clapton’s Crossroads 2010 and I need your help! Go here: http://www.playcrossroads.com/frederickrm and vote. It does require you to create a FREE account but that’s not a hassle.

This is an absolute dream of mine and one which I will probably not be able to do much longer so I would really appreciate your support!

This is an AWESOME event and I would love to be there in the crowd watching all the incredible talent but being on stage and getting to meet them would be even BETTER!

I went into this contest knowing that I probably wouldn’t win but confident that if I did things right that I could. Well I didn’t do things right. I tried too hard. That along with some complications with a pinched nerve in my right elbow (known as cubital tunnel), making it hard to hold on the pick, I lost in the store finals. I won 1st place in the preliminary round but that doesn’t mean a lot. I’ll try again next year and bring my blues “A” game. I lost the blues completely in the store finals. I didn’t deserve to win it really.

Here is the first round video:

And now I have the second round up:

On The Recording Project forums a gentleman named Moon posted a track in which he wanted several guitarists to post their take on jamming over it. His intention was to take them and mix them into a full song. I was lucky enough to get 2 of my takes chosen for this and I think its a fun song. I did the acoustic guitar track (on a really badly setup guitar that buzzed a lot) and the solo electric guitar which follows it and appears again at the end. I need to fix some of the notes one of these days but for a one-take-fun-jam its all good. The track ended up being titled FALLING.

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If you like blues rock music then check out this interent radio staition: http://www.bellyup4blues.com/

Well I went in and won 1st place at the King of the Blues preliminary round 1 at Guitar Center. Next is the store finals on Sept. 10th.