Western Jam, Firebird Studios, Bristol, 25th February 2024

bobblehat

Sundays are fine with me

roberty

Sunday, bloody Sunday

Neilybob

I'm interested in playing.

I can do Saturday or Sunday's. Though I'm not available the first weekend of February. 

Vibetronic

stratman3142 said:

Would a Sunday instead of a Saturday be easier for some?

That would be awesome, but I don’t want everyone putting themselves out just because Saturday is awkward for me. If it’s easy for people that would be great though as I’d love to come.

Brocco

mrkb said:

If Andy isn’t able to do any drumming in Feb, I’m happy to do it again. Would probably be able to add 6-8 new songs in to existing ones IF they can be decided on early enough for me to get them notated and learnt.

Brocco

Thought we could start suggesting tracks we have not done before. I have always liked Slade's version of the Janis Joplin track Move Over (for which there is little in the way of online resources).

stratman3142

I'll start a song list shortly including @Brocco's suggestion.

Some thoughts below, but feel free to shoot me down, or chip in with other ideas:

It would be good to have some new songs, so should we add about 6 to 8 new songs as suggested by @mrkb ;;;

I think we had more than enough songs at the last jam. Perhaps we could also drop a few from the current list to keep the total number to about 25. That would give a bit more time for some polishing up, multiple runs throughs with different line-ups etc.

Also, it might be nice to allocate up to a hour to talk about and try gear. I know at least a couple of people brought amps to try out, and there wasn't time to give them a proper run through.

Brocco

in terms of finding a date in February that we can all make, I can't do the weekend of 17th/18th unfortunately and @Neilybob has advised that he is unavailable the first weekend (3rd/4th), so how is everyone fixed for 10th/11th or 24th/25th?

stratman3142

At the moment I can make your suggested dates. Are we going to try a Sunday this time?

Brocco

I believe everyone confirmed that Sunday is okay for them, so suggest we try and find one that works for all of us as a first step

Brocco

As it is only 14 weeks to our first potential date, Sunday 11th Feb, it would be good if everyone could please confirm if this date works?

stratman3142

Sunday 11th Feb is good for me.

roberty

I have nothing on that day as of now

mrkb

I don’t even have a 2024 calendar to write anything on - so I must be free then.

bobblehat

I have nothing on that day as of now

SPECTRUM001

I am going try to come along too. As long as you really don't mind players with (very) * limited ability. Is there a list/place to nominate songs ?

*no false modesty - it's true !!

roberty

@SPECTRUM001 yes mate nominate away

stratman3142

I'll start a list once we have some more song nominations.

stratman3142

Does everyone think that we should keep many of the songs from the previous jam, so it isn't a major learning curve for everyone (especially @mrkb ; if he's the only drummer)? But it would be good to have a few new ones.

roberty

I took on a little bit too much last time and wasn't prepared enough for all of them. I could learn maybe 5-10 new ones for Feb depending how familiar I am with them already