You're right...
Been recording practices and I am indeed going overboard, painfully.
And I do realize that the solo on the recording is dreadful.
New genre for me, when we got the group together a year ago, our first show, we had put together a bunch of covers from all sorts of modern rock, alt, etc to see what would go over well live. In one set we did Pepper "Ashes" and the crowd went wild over that song.
So we threw everything else away and discovered a whole genre of modern reggae bands. We quickly infused a bunch of covers then started writing our own songs...
So having covered the whole spectrum of rock for the past several decades, this old dog is learning some new tricks!
Thank you for your honesty, I am already taking a different approach.