
Nita Strauss may be one of the most in-demand guitarists on the touring circuit – she's currently on tour alongside Apocalyptica before gearing up for her reunion with Alice Cooper for the spring and summer jaunt – but that doesn't mean she's immune to bad gigs. But what would she say was her worst gig ever?
“I was fortunate to have played the worst gig of my life early on,” she tells Guitar Player. “When I was 12 or 13, I joined my first band, ODA. I have no idea what the initials stood for, but I guess they meant something. I was still in middle school, and everybody else in the band was in high school.