teamJooky & the Alnico tour

Jookyjr

Well, to start with - quick apology for the disappearing raffle thread, and to the six chaps* who were quick off the mark with their donations.  We jumped (or, more accurately, hopped) the gun a bit and needed to get a bit more of our thoughts thunk and organising organised before kicking it all off.

So, here it is, thunk, organised and rebooted, a newer, shinier thing that will hopefully make everybody smile and raise a few bob for Alnico and others beyond. We’re calling it ‘Gimme Shelter’, or possibly ‘Gordon’ for short.

But what is it I am waffling about? I’m glad you asked:

As previously mentioned, there will be a rather cute Jooky Guitar being made over the next few weeks. A build thread will show the progress HERE. This will have a quite stunning and unique top, gloriously cool Mojo Mojotron pickup and lots of other bits too. It will be a La Cabronita like no other.

We’re aiming to get it all done and done before the end of Jan, but our aim does wander a bit at times, so follow the progress on the thread.

The guitar will be raffled, with the winner getting to keep it forever after happy.

But before the raffle happens (which is basically just a dog picking a ball out of a box as far as I can see) - and this is where it gets sneaky cool - the guitar will take a little road  trip of it’s own, a tour if you like.  We may even have tour T-Shirts (I can hear TTony sighing at that one already) and a tour bus and maybe even a tour (oops, no, getting carried away with myself there) which will see it passed from hand to hand around the country and played a little bit along the way. 

For those of you old enough to remember Music Radar and the saga of the Tickled Pink One, this will be quite familiar. It was a lot of fun and there is a whole blog about it HERE. Jules @McToot still wakens in a puddle of sweat, possibly, at the thought of the organisational machinations and general herding of guitarists into a straight and orderly, well, anything.

TPOne was all about raising awareness and a little cash for Breast Cancer, and we’d like to use TPTwo to do the same for Shelter and all the work that they do for people like Andy.  So, we’ll need some PR support to max that and maybe we’ll talk to Shelter about what input they’d like to have too.

To mitigate the chaos that was TPOne, TPTwo will be strictly limited to 25 lucky people though, and it will definitely be on a first come first served basis*.  There is one small caveat - if you’d like to be one of the 25, please think about what you could do to help with the PR aspect, local events, gigs, publicity, whatever.

To be one of the magical 25 will cost £20 a head.  You get to keep the guitar for a couple of weeks  and will be entered in the raffle to possibly win the guitar. We’d also like fotos of you playing it somewhere cool if at all possible, plenty of twittering and facebookery, bonus points for gigs and festies.

Those 25 x £20s will go half to Andy’s fund and half to a donation to Shelter to help others in Andy’s situation.

And speaking of the raffle, to make it fair (and keep it as simple as possible), everybody who has made a donation to the cause so far will gain one entry to the raffle. It doesn’t matter how much or how many donations you make/have made, one entry is maximum per person. 

Of course you can still make a donation to be eligible for the raffle, even if you miss out on the tour, the more the merrier.

And that is that. Full details of the “Gimme Shelter Tour” will follow shortly where you will be able to sign-up…

* Those first 6 who jumped into the raffle as soon as we’d not thought it through properly will be refunded by our resident fat cash controller (calling @TTony), although they also get first call on one of the 25 tour slots if they’d still like to play

DefaultM

Sounds good. I was one of the first 6, but I don't see any need to be refunded because all I'll do is send it straight back to be entered in to the raffle again, assuming it's still £10?
I don't want to do the guitar tour thing because I don't think I could help as much as others could.

TTony

I'd just like to add that I'm not fat*.  

Massive thanks to teamJooky - whether @JookyChap or @JookyJr - for giving their time, energy and expertise to this.  It's another huge gesture of support for @Alnico, as well as recognising all the work that Shelter too for people with housing issues.

The benefit that we generate from this could be out of all proportion if we get the PR stuff right.  I know JC is practised at this dark art, as is @Gassage, so perhaps between us all we can generate a lot more awareness and benefit from this initiative?  Andy has always said that he'd prefer to keep it low key re his personal situation, so we'd have to focus on generalities rather than specifics, at least for now.

I'll get the 6 refunds refunded shortly.

*fat-ish perhaps?

TTony

So, to summarise;

- teamJooky are making a guitar, full of Jooky goodness.  And general Jookyness too.

- Everyone who has already donated, plus all future donors, to the Alnico fund are automatically in the raffle to win the guitar.

- But the guitar will first go on tour - like the Tickled Pink One - in a PR bid to raise awareness of Shelter's work.

- To take part in the tour, places are £20/hd (including a raffle entry) and are limited to 25 places.

Get on the tour now ... I'll use this list to keep a track of participants.  The tour schedule will be arranged based on handover logistics, and the timing of possible opportunities to use Gordon in PR supporting activities.

The first 5 slots on the tour schedule are reserved just in case the original raffle entrants (like DefaultM) want to be including on the tour.

01 - speshul91

02 - modellista

03 - lewligan

04 - robwright

05 - 

06 - Wazmeister

07 - Monquixote

08 - Roland

09 - failed_astronaut

10 - 

11 -

12 -

13 -

14 -

15 -

16 -

17 -

18 -

19 -

20 -

21 -

22 -

23 -

24 -

25 - 

Note - colour coding indicates

- in for the tour but not paid yet

- in for the tour and paid up.

Wazmeister

Yep, Im in...

Jookyjr

@Wazmeister said:

Yep, Im in...

Cool - welcome aboard

monquixote

I'll play if no one minds a mod being involved

TTony

@wazmeister and @monquixote are both on the tour list.

@alnico has agreed to mastermind the logistics of the tour, but he'll need to balance the ease of handovers (ie trying to arrange a more-or-less geography based sequence so meetings in service stations can be arranged) with opportunities for participants to use the guitar in a PR-friendly opportunity, so it'd be really helpful if those participating can think about where/when/how they'd use the guitar and the relevant dates.

Luckily, I'm leaving all of that detail to Andy!!

Wazmeister

Well, my PR will sadly only be through this forum... I dont do Spacebook (as my mother called it), so let me know if this is no use to you

monofin

Put me down for the tour.
Also, my donation was made direct so does that mean I'm included or it just those made via the fretboard?

Jookyjr

@monofin said:

Put me down for the tour.
Also, my donation was made direct so does that mean I'm included or it just those made via the fretboard?

All donations count toward the draw - @Alnico will give us a list of the non paypal ones Glad you are on the team Jase 

TTony

Got the list of donors from Andy. Everyone who donated will be in the raffle/draw.

Tour place/tickets are separate (there's close to 100 people who've donated, so the tour could be severely over-subscribed if we didn't separate them).

p90fool

I was one of the first 6, can you still accept my payment or do I need to send it again?

failed_astronaut

I'd like to be in please. Will it be the usual fretboard email address for the donations? This place is genuinely fantastic sometimes

iseverynamegone

@ttony please don't refund me put it in the pot. Ta.

TTony

Thanks guys

@p90fool - do you want to be in the tour schedule, or just the draw? 

@failed_astronaut - yes, usual addy - are you in for the tour (£20), or just the draw (£10 suggested donation)?

@iseverynamegone - thanks, will keep the cash and just put you in the draw.

Roland

Tour please. How do I pay the £20?

failed_astronaut

Payment for the full shebang sent.

TTony

Roland said:

Tour please. How do I pay the £20?

admin@thefretboard.co.uk - please add your u/n and "tour" into the notes.

Gru

Good luck to everyone that plays on the tour.

I could buy a load of full size cardboard celebs to watch me play in my lounge and take photos, but i wouldn't do it justice (and would be a waste of money)

Also, to everyone that has contributed or organised this great event. Well done!

TTony

Gru said:

Good luck to everyone that plays on the tour.

I could buy a load of full size cardboard celebs to watch me play in my lounge and take photos, but i wouldn't do it justice (and would be a waste of money)

Or, you could invite a load of theFB peeps over and tell them to stand very still in a cardboard-cutout sort of way.  

Much cheaper.