Western Jam 7th October 2023 @ Firebird Studios, Bristol

stratman3142

I've ended up with quite a few songs with improvised guitar solos. Well at least I'll be improvising and not playing things note for note, as my memory isn't that good

It would be good to take turns and share things out. So if anyone fancies a go at some of the solos on songs I'm doing, I'll step aside or revert to rhythm.

For example:
'Call Me The Breeze' and 'Keep Your Hands To Yourself' are just 12 bar type songs in A, so they're good for improvising over. 

Also, I'm happy to stand aside for the Outro solo on Comfortably Numb, if anyone else fancies a go.

Vibetronic

All sounds great - I should be there c.11-1130 once we've got our daughter up and through the bath! Gear-wise I'll have my AX8 again, but have a big Fender Champion now that I used as a power amp instead of a frfr.....anyone welcome to use but sounds like there'll be loads of stuff there. Oh and a couple of guitars, but @stratman3142 I might take you up to the Eb tuned one for the Poison song

Vibetronic

Btw for anyone coming from north of Bristol down the m5 ( @Brocco for one!), the traffic there is particularly crap at the moment. As far as I recall it's nearer Cribbs - roadworks making it go down to one lane, taken me ages to get through on a couple of recent trips - but the tailbacks went back quite a long way....

Brocco

cheers @Vibetronic, I experienced that myself yesterday, and whilst travelling along at a glacial pace, I had time to read the advance notice announcing that the M48 Severn Bridge is closed for this entire weekend, which may be worth knowing for @bobblehat and @mart.

mart

Brocco said:

cheers @Vibetronic, I experienced that myself yesterday, and whilst travelling along at a glacial pace, I had time to read the advance notice announcing that the M48 Severn Bridge is closed for this entire weekend, which may be worth knowing for @bobblehat and @mart.

Thanks for heads-up, but hopefully the M4 bridge and M49 will be open.

Vibetronic

Brocco said:

cheers @Vibetronic, I experienced that myself yesterday, and whilst travelling along at a glacial pace, I had time to read the advance notice announcing that the M48 Severn Bridge is closed for this entire weekend, which may be worth knowing for @bobblehat and @mart.

No worries. Having posted that, I’ve somewhat belatedly realised that I may have to change my own departure time a bit!

stratman3142

Just checking the key of 'I Believe In A Thing Called Love' with @Neilybob ;, @Vibetronic and @roberty to make sure everyone's learned it in the same key.

On my song list, I put the key of F#m for 'I Believe In A Thing Called Love'. Can I just double check that, as there a versions in Gm?

I'm pretty certain we did it in F#m previously.

mrkb

Make Rob sing it as high as possible his delivery is superb.

Bennyboy-UK

I’m really looking forward to meeting eveyone!

guitargeek62

Same! It’ll be my first tFB/MR group meetup in a loooooooooong time.

Also rather looking forward to making some proper noise too, as it’s been about six years since I last played* with others

*Guitar

guitargeek62

Oooh - shall we do name badges? I’m useless with names but I’ll recognise your handles/usernames  

Vibetronic

stratman3142 said:

Just checking the key of 'I Believe In A Thing Called Love' with @Neilybob ;, @Vibetronic and @roberty to make sure everyone's learned it in the same key.

On my song list, I put the key of F#m for 'I Believe In A Thing Called Love'. Can I just double check that, as there a versions in Gm?

I'm pretty certain we did it in F#m previously.

That’s the first chord I have so all good

roberty

I am really bad at names

roberty

mrkb said:

Make Rob sing it as high as possible his delivery is superb.

Might be a bit less screechy if I'm not trying to play the riff at the same time

Neilybob

Apologies all, I can't make it to this jam. 

stratman3142

Neilybob said:

Apologies all, I can't make it to this jam. 

That's a pity after you were the one to drive things to make it happen, which is much appreciated. So thanks for making it happen.

Hope to see you at the next one.

roberty

Neilybob said:

Apologies all, I can't make it to this jam. 

No worries mate. We will catch you next time

Jonathangus

Neilybob said:

Apologies all, I can't make it to this jam. 

Aw, crap.  Hope everything's OK, dude.

Vibetronic

Neilybob said:

Apologies all, I can't make it to this jam. 

Bad luck mate, you’ll be missed. Hope everything is ok.

Vibetronic

My route is now telling me to  avoid the m5 so will take slightly longer (although I suspect if I did take the motorway I’d be even later!). Still hope to be there c.1130 but potentially may be slightly later. We are moving relatively quickly for a Saturday morning though!