P.S. I know Ballroom Blitz is by The Sweet but in this show they specified that we're playing the "Tia Carrere version." ;)

That capo thing is hilarious. Imagine that from the guitarist's perspective...some random guy comes up and puts a capo on the guitar outta nowhere lol

sound guy here. Thanks for mentioning how when things are going smoothly, nobody notices us. Most of us tech guys get a rush when the show's going really well. Even when we don't know the band/artist, we're your biggest fans in that moment. Some of us joke our best compliment is when nobody notices anything, but I'd be lying to tell you we don't enjoy a "thanks" now and then.

Dude you are the most humble musician on the tube.. The way you talk about your f-ups makes you all the more relatable!!

Don't ever stop being a musician. Don't EVER stop being a story-teller. The hair! The capo!! I can't get back to my own practice because I'm crying and I can't see.

You're a natural storyteller. The Midwestern wholesomeness shines through. The quick edits really help flow. Loved it!

Look forward to the gig recaps. Keep em' coming

I am a musician too... .. This feels like we are hangin' and chat about our gig nites. .. Very friendly video

I like how respectful you are especially when someone really sucks at what they're doing... we've all been there, so it's refreshing.

Mike, this is such a great episode. Love your perspective on the show. You definitely need to recap your next shows.

Great Creepshow tshirt. It’s one of my favorite movies. 🍿

"then i get my guitar stuck in the guys hair". Not a musician, but totally something that'd happen to me. :D

Awesome gig for you! Nights like that are certainly memorable!! Thanks a million for sharing!!!

Gig recap was awesome,, give us morrrrrre!!

Analog all day, EVERY DAY!😎

I only play in my church worship band, but I relate so much to things that you say happen in this video. Things like strumming your guitar and hearing sound, and that relief that it's actually making sound at all. Also, wanting to do something in a song, but chickening out. I've done that 1000x because I'm terrible at improv (and really, guitar too) and I always will err towards making the song sound right versus doing something flashy or cool. It's church, 99% of the audience won't notice anyways.

Hey Mike, thanks for the awesome video! This was great to watch with the kids who play shows for them to see how important it is to have a great attitude and to keep going! We all love the channel. Thanks again!

Loving this series WE NEED MOREEEEEE

This was such a cool video. As somebody who hasn't really ever gigged regularly, it's awesome to get a feel for what it's like. Your explanation was so down to earth. I bet it's pretty therapeutic to run through the night like that. Even your "mistakes" tend to be really well intended and I'm sure you were the only one beating yourself up for it at the end of the day. Love the channel. Finally subscribed. Thanks!

This was a great video, the capo thing cracked me up, more stories like this would be awesome.

As a gigging musician for 35 years I'll say this bro. Those notes that you played for the outro? No one but you noticed.

I'm going to be Star Struck when I meet you, Mike!

Jeff is a dang legend. One of the best players I've ever known.

It’s good to see you so excited about a night that will stick with you for the rest of your life. Congratulations!

The guitar stuck in his hair 😂😂😂

Love this, awesome recap! I'm so glad it went well, and everyone had a great time 😊 Brynn is a cool dude, Ryan Smith did a couple interviews with him this past year and he's involved with a song writing course he does.

@The-Art-of-Guitar Back in the 80s we had "that happen" at least once at every show & practice. So thousands of times! Heck we even had a girl's hair get stuck in a guy's nose ring at a great friend's funeral. It took us/me over 20 minutes to fix. & i mostly got stuck being the unstucker, lol! Yet twas a great tension breaker that was desperately needed. It became one of the most told repetitive stories, especially at most funerals that followed, which sadly has been many; well over a hundred in the 80s & like another 100 over the following 30+ Years. Still it's funny how stories like that can live on & actually become cherished, As your story was once again a reminder of... Cheers 🤘 PS- We could help Rob Reiner do a whole Spinal Tap series! So many great could-be clips from 80s antics & beyond! Send it to The Netflix! Okay, bad puns- pss- after show late meals are great payments/thanks! Cheers, Mike & all- Keep the stories coming~

Your awesome and a great guitarist great job 👍👍

I have an EVH with a D-Tuna. The band I'm in played a Pearl Jam tribute show in my area, and one of the songs we did was Just Breathe. The song before was Even Flow. I had my D-Tuna pulled out for Even Flow and started playing Just Breathe. Yeah... so the sinking feeling when someone is in a different tuning...I know it.

What a great vid. Thanks for sharing.❤ Its kind of cool to see that even someone with your (massive) talent can have everyday human issues when playing with others. The hair tangle story had me laughing. Speaking as someone with little talent, I have had a few rare occaisions where I connected musically with another person and it's the greatest feeling in the world! Please DO share some of your upcoming gigs with us.👍 You are a very humble and likeable guy. And ROCK ON!

Love your storytime! Keep em up. Big Fan of those videos

This is a top 10 all time story. Thank you!

We were a 5-piece...lost our rhythm guitarist to rehab and our vocalist to getting fired...so, we were a 3-piece and had permission to to practice at a nightclub...ummm, bar...after 5pm, the Marines would show up...not for killing us, but to have some beers...so they were there during our practice...we, as cool as we were , asked what they wanted to hear...at the time, it was all about Ozzy...my guitarist said we can play Ozzy, but not sing it (we fired him)...they said okay...we kicked into "Paranoid" and it was cool...they loved it...then history changed...I turned my mic on and started singing...as soon as I did, the drummer and lead/guitarist lost their place; they were taken aback!!! I nailed it! The whole bar was ecstatic!!! Then, my guitarist asked if I could sing "Crazy Train"...? Yeah, I can, but not with not with that bass line!

loving the shout out. Ryche on.....

Digg'n the gig recaps! Some irl never hurt nobody. 😂

Love the gig recaps....it's like Spinal Tap ... but REAL! :D. Keep them coming because everything you mentioned is similar to what we all experience without our gigs....love the channel....

Great job! Yes, please do more of these. It’s fun to hear about all the ups and downs and reminds me how much fun it used to be to gig like that!!

Awesome story telling. Reminded me of a gig, where my lead singer and lead guitarist got into a tiff at the end of the first set, put our band into a three month break..that just happened!

I'm only up to 4.5 minutes, but I'm already thinking, "This is gonna make a good memory, a good story, and likely lead to some other great things! Well done at the gig, dude! Seriously! THAT'S how you represent! 10:30. Ballroom Blitz (by The Sweet) is one of my fav rock-out songs! I'm not familiar with the "other versions" (mentioned by you & other commenters), so I guess I have some research to do. ***Good job, all around! This video is one of my favorites of yours, idk lol. 🤪 👍👍

I enjoy these anecdotes big time... Ive been in bands and I relate to those situations... Greetings from Uruguay!

💪🏾😁This was an especially great true-to-life video! I like that you humbled yourself enough to admit your own faux pas (spelling? lol) I think we’ve all been there but if not, can certainly expect it if you gig out enough. Thank you for sharing!🤩

Super Entertaining, Thanks!

This. Was. Great.

Good job donating your time to help others!

Haha you brought a Grandpa amp to the show! This is the most relatable cover band show though. So entertaining to hear and watch!

Love Flipp, seen them a couple dozen times, the singer is a riot, if I knew he was playing I would've been there, love the channel.

I just love hearing you talk it's so relaxing and interesting

Hey Mike! It's so amazing that you got to play among these talented people! But I got really confused when you said you realized somebody was off a halft step to the other instruments. How did you know that? I thought the notes sounded the same on any tuning if correctly done. Does it mean my notes sound flatter the lower my tuning is? I'd like to know more about it.

Well played Mike 🤘💙🎶🤘

Thank you. I appreciate the video and your time and effort! It made me nostalgic to play live again!

It just goes to show you that your playing can change when you set your foot on a stage. It happens to me all the time. I know how to play a song the right way, but when I get on the stage with other musicians, unanticipated things happen 😀

Cool that somebody did Tooth and Nail. Kind of an obscure song to cover. That Dokken tour supporting Krokus was my first concert and an early favorite in H.S.

As a former Minnesotan, you buying someone Perkins afterward is very Minnesotan, brings back alot of good memories man.

Thank you for this! Good t hear tales from the road! I remember "Freak" by Flip being played on Rockin' 101.

Cool story about Flip... Many years ago when I was younger and married at the time. We are not together anymore but this is one of the good memories I have with her. It was the wife's birthday and we were at our local pawn shop where we were regulars. One of the employees came walking in and said there was this band playing down at our local music/clothing/head shop. So we decided to go check it put. We walked in and were just blown away. It was a small shop so Flip was In a small corner of the store and there were about 20 people watching so it was standing room only. Me and the wife managed to make our way so we standing right in front of the band. There rocking away and all of a sudden Brin takes his guitar and puts it around my neck hands Me his pick and starts just running around the store. I tried my best to keep up with them but me being young and haven't played guitar for very long I was lost. Brin comes running back up to the stage area carrying a vinyl record can't remeber the band it might have been theirs but that's besides the point. He finishes the last verse of the song and the song ends. They all hand me picks and say good job. I'm high on adrenaline and grinning ear to ear. Here's the kicker Cheap Trick was playing in town that night and Flip was the opening act. I was standing next to the guitarist and I told him it was my wife's birthday and asked him if they could get us into the show. He immediatly turns around and gets on the mic and says "So this guy says it's his wife's birthday and asked me to get him into the show tonight" my face is turning red and I feel my heart beating in my chest as I think I'm about to be laughed at, "I'll get you in but you have to answer a trivia question first...Who is the boss of Charlie's Angels" I froze and stuttered thinking to myself I know this but the answer wouldn't come out my mouth. I look at my wife and she's smiling ear to ear I look around at the other guests and they are all smiling and laughing. I'm crushed as I think I'm about to suffer the ultimate embarrassment and fail out when suddenly the guitarist says "Here's a hint it's in the name" Face palm and a groan as I yell out "Charlie".Everybody laughed pretty hard as well as did I. We got to see the show and it was an awesome night. Flip was phenomenal as well as was Cheap Trick. It was an amazing birthday for the wife and we had a good time all around.

You are good bro, no need to worry bro

Never give up your tubes. It's so heartbreaking that so many use computer simulation amp modelers now, but there is no substitute, When I play through my Peavey or a Mesa or a 5150, the tones that you can generate makes me think that amp modeler users don't really love the guitar. That was one of the coolest things about the electric guitar - it's not just the music, it's the way it sounds. I remember when I started and heard Brain May, Randy, all of them if it just made the hairs on my body stay on end. But man, you use a bass amp head? Is that for guitar? I'm sure it sounds good and I've heard of people doing it, but if you use that, I'll have to try one. My Peavey triple XXX though is absolute perfection.

Thanks for the shout out!

Flipp -- Nice! I'm going to have to check those guys out.

Congrats on rolling with the punches, and your new podcast is insanely good.

Damn! I wish I was able to have made that. I started playing lead guitar at Ziggys on Wednesday nights for open jam nights to help overcome my fear of playing in front of others. I'm finally out of my basement and having a blast! It feels great getting together with strangers, making music, and seeing the crowd having a great time.

Epic times and story , thanks , as a Dokken fan, the Tooth N Nail note remark was cool ✊🏻💪🏻

All great players and great people!

2:10 Yes! The best feeling!! 😅

All my gigs over the last year were no rehearsals. I always come prepared and fortunately the artist I work with is a pro and is also well prepared. For the most part everything seems to buff out better than I ever expected.

The hair thing happened to Herman Li in Dragonforce, he got stuck with his hair in the headstock of the bass (the bassplayer was passing behind him)when headbanging,the singer started to laugh then kept singing while geting them unstuck 😂

Thanks again Mike! Playing those 2 Metallica songs with you was absolutely amazing! Thanks for playing my part last second when the amp there had no distortion. Absolutely amazing last min adjustment

Great video thanks 👍🇺🇸

This is a great breakdown. Thank you for sharing the highs and lows.

That would have been a good bit for "This is Spinal Tap". Maybe it'll be on the new T.I.S.T. movie.Yes! They're making a sequel! Can't wait.

Sounds like a blast!

when u got a good drummer everything is workin the end. Drummer most important guy. You aint got the drums you got nothin.

This is nearly identical to the open jams I've played. Fun, surprises, cringe moments. It all adds up to the excitement and danger of a live Rock show 😁

These are very entertaining 🍿

Stillwater- my hometown ❤

You gotta get a Whammy, Mike, so you can go to Eb with a flick of a switch! 🙏🎸 Great video!

I think pitch shifter pedals are really good to have especially for a gig in case everyone is in a different tuning than you, I’m pretty sure that same thing happened to Metallica when they were playing fade to black. Awesome video! It was very fun to watch

2:27 Sick chorus setting! Over the years, I've heard so many non-famous guitarists getting horrible sounds out their chorus pedals, it always excites me when someone gets it right. I respect and admire you from watching your vids over the past couple of years. I would love to pick your brain a little bit about amp setups: I don't like stacks aimed at my back but prefer combo amps aimed up from the front of me like a vocal monitor. Have you seen other guitarists do this, or am I a weirdo?

Great story!! I've played a lot of benefits with local bands, and they're fun. I always made sure to practice their material plus mine, because we'd always invite each other up for guest jams. It freaked them out because sometimes they'd say "Wow, you know that too??" It would blow their mind more if they had original stuff - but sometimes I'd have to improvise that. And I always jumped in on rhythm - never lead, unless the guitar player said "Dude, take the lead here." I never wanted to be THAT guy. Wow - Steelheart! I remember them, and all the stories about the the vocalist. I heard there were betting tables at every show, and how high he'd hit. Could be a rumor......lol

I did something like that here in Nashville about a month and a half ago. I got to drum on Sweet Dreams Are Made Of These by Eurythmics and Crybaby by Janis Joplin. It was a ton of fun. I love events like that.

Nice job! This video really makes me want to get back in to a cover band.

More gig video for these

Looks like a lot of fun. Another jam is starting somewhere in the midway between Minneapolis and St Paul. Saw Brynn there for the open discussion so could be very cool -

I’m friends with Beth on Facebook because I posted a video of her from KZfaq on Cover band Central Facebook page. And lo and behold she commented she is very cool and she is an amazing singer.

Real life. Things happen. Super Cool that you volunteered to be a part of it for a good cause. You played on a bunch of cool songs. But Born with the Runs ??? If there was ever a song begging for a Weird Al cover 🤣 Great Gig Story 🤘✌️

Great video dude. Is that a Stones Hackney Diamond tour shirt?

Awesome,thx, man❤

Hearing this brings back stage fright. 😅

Spinal Tap!😂 Was the model of Stonehenge the right size, at least?

We often play DT in our local shows here in PH and it was banging at always! Especially when using EBMM JP7 woohoooo!

Haha I really enjoy this, as a fellow bad luck on the gigs, it's always the same isn't it? So meticulous with strong points how it should be done, but the universe have different plans with you on the stage:P

hahahahahaaha... holy wowsers.. stuck IN his Hair.. NO Way.. haha.. great stuff. Thanks for sharing all this.. awesome.

Saw Queen of the Ryche in Pittsburgh back in February! They rocked! No Silent Lucidity though which was kinda funny!

Man, I felt the same way a couple weeks back when we were playing with Little Texas. Here I am toting around my Rectoverb and a 4x12 cab and they're just rockin' Nuerual stuff (and sounded badass). I have a Headrush, but I've yet to pull the trigger on going fully digital while playing live.

LOL Perkins dont need to bill you, I really was amazed at Flipp, that just hit me, and Im a solid roadie for you LOL! Good times just us being us man.

20:50 - Yes, it does.

And thanks for not calling me out on adding my own spin to Steve Fossen's parts on Barracuda. :)

Good to know😊we all make mistakes😊you are great teacher😊

What a night!

I had a female singer in my band once, who used to do that to my head, whenever she hit a specific high note. I would feel myself almost blacking out, every time she hit it.