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The rock group Trans-Siberian Orchestra is coming back to VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena on December 11 for their \u201cGhosts of Christmas Eve Tour.\u201d<\/p>\n
Al Pitrelli, the guitarist and musical director of TSO, sat down with WOKV\u2019s Chase Bunker to talk about what it feels like to perform in front of crowds, how TSO revived his Christmas spirit, and how he was almost the guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne.<\/p>\n
\u25b6 Listen to Jacksonville\u2019s Morning News Interviews<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n When talking about what it feels like to perform in front of a large crowd, Pitrelli says, \u201cThere\u2019s two things, the first is that it\u2019s a dream come true ever since I was a kid. You know, when first saw The Beatles on Ed Sullivan [Show] in \u201864, I was two years old at the time, but I remember I was transfixed to, you know, the old black-and-white TV with the rabbit-ear antennas and going \u2018oh my god this is the greatest thing I\u2019ve ever seen.\u2019 And then going through the public school system and the music department, and being in the large ensembles playing for, you know, parents in the audience, that was fun. And you know, your first cover band in junior high, there was Lynyrd Skynyrd, Allman Brothers, Leslie West, and Johnny Winter cover tunes, and you know, young ladies acting in a positive manner, and I was like \u2018oh, I\u2019m onto something.\u2019 Then just playing live and just enjoying it and playing in clubs, and then the venues got bigger, and to play in arenas that are sold out is fantastic. But the more important part is that I look out and I go, \u2018people are enjoying something that I helped create.\u2019 And that, to me, is the equivalent of watching my children go out into the world and having people fall in love and admire them and exceeding all my expectations, and that\u2019s what really hits with me. Here\u2019s something I did 30 years ago that\u2019s still important, and people love it, and I\u2019m really proud.\u201d<\/p>\n Tickets are on sale now<\/a>. Check out the full interview<\/a> to hear how one song helped rejuvenate Pitrelli\u2019s Christmas spirit and how he was almost Ozzy Osbourne\u2019s guitarist.<\/p>\n You can hear more of Chase\u2019s interviews in the Chase Chats section<\/a>.<\/p>\n Read more local news from WOKV<\/a><\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and traffic app. And click here<\/a> to subscribe to our daily 3 Big Things newsletter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The rock group Trans-Siberian Orchestra is coming back to VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena on December 11 for their \u201cGhosts of Christmas Eve Tour.\u201d Al Pitrelli, the guitarist and musical director of TSO, sat down with WOKV\u2019s Chase Bunker to talk about what it feels like to perform in front of crowds, how TSO revived his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[380926,380929,368436,306982,33128,380927,380928],"class_list":["post-2051312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artists","tag-al-pitrelli","tag-allman-brothers","tag-christmas-eve","tag-lynyrd-skynyrd","tag-ozzy-osbourne","tag-trans-siberian-orchestra","tag-vystar-veterans-memorial-arena"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2051312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2051312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2051312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2051312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}