What do you consider your biggest musical accomplishment?

I need to add one other thing from my post above, regarding a musical accomplishment -

That was getting my playing, my chops to a point where I could play whatever I had in my head. I practiced like mad, every day. Even on vacations I had a guitar even if it was just running through my daily practice routine. Years and years ago I had read where Steve Morse said, if he takes a day off it takes him two days to catch back up - something like that. I took that to heart.

So really from about '92 to 2012, all the bands I was in, I felt like I could do and play anything I wanted not to mention having the confidence to do so. I mean I was at NAMM one time ripping away in front of Guthrie Govan and it didn't phase me.

Right now, I play so little and I look back at that time frame, playing was a breeze. My existence on guitar was to get better. It really was the driving force of me being a musician. My last time on stage, I knew that was it. I knew this was as good as it was going to get for me and when I walked away that drive went with it.

But yeah musically, that time period, very proud of that.
 
So far my biggest musical accomplishment was releasing a demo on a Swedish label that had reissued a few cult classic FWOSHM bands I'm a fan of (Witch, Mistress, Overdrive, etc.) and my band's "contract" was even written by Janne Stark from Overdrive himself. Since then I had a sadly short-lived full-band lineup, and then went on to play Blades of Steel Metalfest even after losing all of my band members (long story). It was an honor to play BoS cause many of my favorite cult bands like Slauter Xstroyes and Cirith Ungol had played it, and I got to meet some new music connections.

Now I'm in Sweden and writing new material for an album that I will hopefully start recording when I get back to the US.
 
jabps said:
I need to add one other thing from my post above, regarding a musical accomplishment -

That was getting my playing, my chops to a point where I could play whatever I had in my head. I practiced like mad, every day. Even on vacations I had a guitar even if it was just running through my daily practice routine. Years and years ago I had read where Steve Morse said, if he takes a day off it takes him two days to catch back up - something like that. I took that to heart.

So really from about '92 to 2012, all the bands I was in, I felt like I could do and play anything I wanted not to mention having the confidence to do so. I mean I was at NAMM one time ripping away in front of Guthrie Govan and it didn't phase me.

Right now, I play so little and I look back at that time frame, playing was a breeze. My existence on guitar was to get better. It really was the driving force of me being a musician. My last time on stage, I knew that was it. I knew this was as good as it was going to get for me and when I walked away that drive went with it.

But yeah musically, that time period, very proud of that.
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That’s a wild journey.
 
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