I'm playing in several different groups doing everything from Black Gospel to stuff that is borderline Metal. Many nights we are doing a lot of improv Spontaneous stuff. Anybody else here a worship player??

I played in my church band for about 3 years. But when we moved to a new church the band had all the the guitarist it needed. So I guess you could say I'm "retired".

I occasionally fill in on drums on Sunday mornings. I've only played 3 or 4 times.

The last church we attended, My wife and I played on 3 different Sunday worship teams, a team of our own that played a devotional set on Saturday evenings, and a Harp and Bowl team on Saturday nights. Stayed pretty busy. Played styles ranging from middle of the road modern worship(Sundays) to highly improvised free-form music(Harp and Bowl), to blues-tinged Christian rock. At the moment, we are between churches, but the two of us rattle the walls here at home once or twice a week.

I haven't played in a worship project in almost a decade. I took a couple of years off from being Baptist to play on the praise team for an AoG church. We didn't get too experimental, but some Sundays I (the bass player) would throw in some extra licks. That would, in turn, inspire the guitarist to throw in some extra licks and more distortion. By the end of the set, we'd be rockin' even the slow tunes. The people loved it, but the pastor would fuss at us for "overplaying" nearly every time.

Nowadays, I don't play much at all. I don't know of anyone who wants to even jam. It sucks.

I used to, but I just didn't care for my experiences in the worship teams around here. I much prefer a band setting.

Man I rocked HARD for several years at a Mega Church. We did some stuff that bordered on Metal and I ran a 100 watt half stack on stage. We ran 4000 or so on Sunday morning with levels on stage at 120db or better and FOH ran at 110.
I wailed my brains out every Sunday Morning Sunday night and Wednesday night there for 4 years.
Got a BUNCH of clips and wish i cold post um but ---the board won't let me yet.

The wait time is over so I can post a couple clips.
These are from the Old mega Church I was running a 100 watt Carvin X100B halfstack here and playing a Carvin V220 both 1988 models.
http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=4453782
http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=5049360
Here is a Vid from a local Labor day fest in 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hVVMU7Ombg
And some spontaneous improvised on the spot stuff from a meeting we did several months ago 1990 Carvin X220C through my 25 watt Zinky Blue velvet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzLclauwQBE
better audio only recording from the same place but a different meeting again improvised spontaneous tune written on the spot. My wife says this stuff reminds her of the Jam Band stuff from the 60's-70's with folks like Airplane and the Dead and she don't like it much LOL.
http://www.box.com/shared/m1k7am911s
Last Saturday night with an ol bud I was using my PRS Custom 24 through the Zinky
http://www.box.com/s/fepoff1flrz2vap2pee1

Wow that is one beautiful looking church.
For some reason I couldn't get the soundclick links to open (might have something to do with me being at work). But I checked out the youtube clips.
Very cool!

Ascension, you are truly blessed to have had that kind of experience in a worship band. My wife and I are still looking for some folks to put a band together with. In all honesty though, I don't believe we'll find those folks until the Lord has completely worked me through some issues, one of which is pride. Not a thing I enjoy admitting, but pride is a great deal of the reason I haven't had many good experiences band-wise. Keep us in your prayers, please.