The camps have put aspiring rock stars through the paces of the music industry and given them the chance to play with some of their heroes
Fishof aims to make the camps just as valuable for the headliners as the campers. “They become so enmeshed in it, because it's not a lot of people. They're fellow musicians,” he says. “I told Slash, ‘Just come for a few hours.’ He ended up staying for 12 hours. He told me it was the hardest thing he ever had to do.”
Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason went one step further when he led a camp. “I asked Nick Mason to come for a few hours and said, ‘You’ll enjoy it.’ Four days later, he was still there,” Fishof recalls. “He decided to join a band. He said, ‘You know, I never get to play a Monkees song with Micky Dolenz!’”
Fishof says he’s witnessed his camps inspire attendees to pursue the dreams they put on hold."One lady came in and said, ‘Yes, I got a little depressed [after I left the camp], but I've made a decision: I'm not going to be a lawyer anymore. I’m going to do my passion, and I'm going to become a writer,’” he says. “She said, ‘I took what I learned from these musicians, who decided not to be the norm. They decided they weren't going to take a regular job.
He continues: “Joe Perry said it best once at a camp. He got up there and he said to a guy, ‘What do you do for a living?’ And the guy said, ‘I'm a doctor, and on the weekends I play guitar in my band.' And [Joe] turned to the guy and he said, ‘Listen, you're a musician first. You’re a guitarist first. You do that medical crap to pay for your guitar.
Perry will return to headline another camp from March 10-13, 2022, in Deerfield Beach, Florida. “I don’t really do much to get ready,” the Aerosmith guitarist tells. “I just bring along a couple of guitars to make sure I can show somebody something on a riff that I might have written in an open tuning or something like that. But that’s it. All I can do is show up, and I’m dragging 50 years of experience with me.
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