Small world

If you can read this without that horrible Disney song getting stuck in your head: It's a small world, after all.

I'd met a young guitarist named Kyle Ingram a few years ago, when he and a drummer performed a morning set during the Rock Off at Peters Township Community Day. Kyle wowed the crowd that had gathered thus far by ripping up a bunch of "oldies," many of them by way of Led Zeppelin.

Kyle turned out to be the nephew of a friend of a friend, and I met up with him again at a party on a farm in Avella a few months later. And his guitar playing stole the show again.

Then, not so long ago, I ran into Kyle when he was finished with practice at the Guitar Gallery in North Strabane. I told to keep me informed about his band, and he's done so.


Meanwhile, my friend Ray from Chartiers Township was talking about his son, Joe, playing drums in a band that had a couple of really good guitar players. One of them, or course, turned out to be Kyle.

Small world.

The band, Lock N Load, has had just a handful of practices and needs to find a vocalists. But the four musicians have enough talent to perform a series of instrumentals to an enthusiastic audience, as they did last week at Bunnie's in Cecil Township.

Joe Margiotta's drum solo during "Moby Dick" received a particularly warm response, and here's the video.

While we're on Zeppelin covers, here's Kyle's "Heartbreaker" guitar solo.

And here's the whole band doing a couple of Hendrix tunes.