I taught elementary school for a few decades and a couple of the younger teachers and I got together and played some music after school. On the last day of my last day of teaching, in June of 2001, we put on a show for the kids in the gym. Most of our repertoire was songs that I had just been introduced to by the other two guys, Ian and Jim - Bands that I never listened to, like
Green Day and
Blink 182, so I insisted that they learn at least 3 songs that were written before they were born.
Two of the songs I suggested and they agreed to have already been done in this thread -
Sunshine Of Your Love and
Born To Be Wild. We also did a generic blues. This is one of the few electric gigs I have done. I still own the Tele, but it comes out about twice a year at the most.
Jim Noble, the drummer, showed up with "
Jack & The Jims" on his bass drum, so that became our name. We played our last time at my retirement party in my local pub that weekend.
Here's the only photo I have of that band. Ian Jack, the lead singer, who is the same age as my kids, didn't make it into the photo.
Ian is on the right of this photo about 20 years ago. My son Clay is playing the Tele.
My apologies for the thread drift.