........that's because weekend warriors with average abilities need love too.

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I love ya!

Next time I find my way out to Bellevue to visit my family I'm gonna have you prove it.

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our is a mix around here. you find beginners as well as seasoned pro's and even guys/gals that belong to bands already. its a novelty to the pro's, its fun. around here ya never know who is gonna walk in. heck, start your own, be the MC of the jam night somewhere.
has a set for the beginners, and then the intermed, then the advanced.

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"The good thing is in a club situation, most of the patrons are trashed and really can't tell the difference."

The first time I played on stage was at the Fat Cat Sunday night blues jam, what an experience. I asked them to play Pride & Joy, an easy song I knew very well... or at least I thought so. As soon as the band started my mind went blank and my hands refused to work. After standing there for the better part of an eternity I turned down the guitar volume a bit and started playing a shuffle in E. When it came time for a solo the band leader looked over and said "you ready?" to which I replied with a deer-in headlights-look and shook my head. Luckily the band was on top of it and avoided the trainwreck I almost caused. Everyone applauded and the band was cool about it, bought me a few beers and told me to come back and try again.

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very cool story right there. thats the way it should be too, everybody helping everybody out. well, did you ever go back?

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63supro
"The good thing is in a club situation, most of the patrons are trashed and really can't tell the difference."

my town has no special blues club. the artists play in pubs till clubs or arena.
the räucher offers live session one time in a month.

cheers

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Buds on Broadway. This is the only jam I know of that you dont have to sign up 2 weeks in advance for. The other places in town want you to sign up and give you a 10-15 min time slot. I don't like that. It takes the spontinaity out of grabbing a couple of guys you've never played with and seeing what happens!

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I better start woodshedding

[quote="Voodoo Blues]The first time I played on stage was at the Fat Cat Sunday night blues jam, what an experience..................[quote]
About 10 years ago my bandmate drummer, and longtime friend, married off his daughter.
I hauled one of my guitars down to Florida because we had already talked about sitting in with the band, and I had a short phone conversation with the leader and pretty much told him to expect something by Chuck Berry. Notwithstanding the brief mental preparation, and some brief noodling with the guitar solos that afternoon in my hotel room, the performance was pretty much spontaneous, he having not been at a drum kit for over thirty years, and the two of us having not been on stage together for that period of time as well. To everyone's surprise, delight, and amazement it was flawless. There are some things which, once in place, you can dig down deep and call on. Same thing when I played at my son's wedding reception, and reception of another friend. It's always there for you. Once you've developed a comfort level with being in front of a crowd, it's a no-brainer.

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Yeah a few times, the next time I went I followed a kid who did an amazing job on Voodoo Chile, he blew the roof off the place.

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we dont see many cover tunes during jams in the 2 places i pop into from time to time.
you tell them the key and its off you go, or they tell you the key whichever.
every so often you will hear a classic come up but not many.

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"The good thing is in a club situation, most of the patrons are trashed and really can't tell the difference."

My youngest son can wail on that song,he does a great job on it.
He brought a Strat to me to work on because the middle pup had died,it was a guitar I've been letting him use...he started off apologizing about a few frets in the 12th area on the neck that had some grooves cut into them.He said he had done some "mic stand slides" ala Hendrix and the strings had cut into the frets.When he saw the results he said the crowd loved it but it wasn't worth damaging the frets to look cool.
Blues jams draw many guitarists who think there's nothing to playing blues,and you can tell who they are easily.
I was at a jam in Alabama one time before one of the Allman Brothers concerts,for a big party with some guys I had never played with,we were playing everything Allman and some kid asked to join in,so a guy asked him what he was going to play,he stammered for awhile and said,"Well,I can play the slide part in the beginning of Statesboro blues"......the other guitar player said "Well,hell,we can all play that!".....I felt sorry for that kid.

yeah that was uncool in my opinion. so did the kid play?
you will find some attitudes sometimes there at the jams. not often but it happens.

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"The good thing is in a club situation, most of the patrons are trashed and really can't tell the difference."

Too bad he wasn't Quinn Sullivan.

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