Fretboard Jam - 2017 Leicester - 2nd September - Running Order V4 Now up!!

darthed1981 · September 2017

Thanks to all for a fantastic day today was a lot of fun and great to be there learning, playing and being in such a supportive environment.

Great to put faces to names and to meet such a lovely bunch of people!

spark240 · September 2017

I can only echo what's already been said, good venue, good organisation, I honesty it didn't think all the songs would get done ! ...but they did with time to spare, so well done all!

aord43 · September 2017

Yay...it happened! As well as echoing the thanks to the organisers and "house band" (well done guys, that was excellent work!) I would like to thank those who helped me practice on the day and those who I played with.
Cheers all. Brilliant day.

paulmapp8306 · September 2017

Great day. Good to catch up with those I've met before, and to meet those I haven't.

Everyone saw play did really well, from the experienced to the anxious. Hope everyone else got something from the day.

Thanks to all those involved in the organisation, including those not present.

Bridgehouse · September 2017

strumjoughlamps said:

@octatonic was blooming awesome, twas watching him that made me realise I want to spend more time and effort drumming..

and I have forgot his name, playing the PRS in the jam room, really enjoyed his calm and methodical persona.

was great putting more faces to usernames.. and I am chuffed to bits I got up and sang Pretty Vacant

I thought your rendition of Pretty Vacant was bloody marvellous! Well done

Nikko · September 2017

Great day! Well done to everyone that took part, and especially those that organised the day.

Was good to meet you all, and finally put some faces to names. Was disappointed in my personal performance, but at the same time was inspired by some truly great players that have shown me today what time, patience and a hell of a lot of practice can help me achieve.
I hope to be able to come to many more jam days.
My wife looked at my t-shirt and just went 'oh...right'

Thanks again everyone.

bigjon · September 2017

Good to meet you all, cheers for a very enjoyable day.

Bridgehouse · September 2017

bigjon said:

Good to meet you all, cheers for a very enjoyable day.

Your stamina is to be applauded....!

not_the_dj · September 2017

Should we let these threads sink and start a new "post jam" thread for the photos/vids/general congratulations to all for a great day?

Just an idea to make it easier for everyone to view it rather than hunting in these mammoth threads.

Bridgehouse · September 2017

not_the_dj said:

Should we let these threads sink and start a new "post jam" thread for the photos/vids/general congratulations to all for a great day?

Just an idea to make it easier for everyone to view it rather than hunting in these mammoth threads.

That's quite a good idea, actually.

@TTony - I'll start a post Jam thread and you can let the others sink so @ThorpyFX 's post gets some proper air time

Legionreturns · September 2017

Nikko said:

Great day! Well done to everyone that took part, and especially those that organised the day.

Was good to meet you all, and finally put some faces to names. Was disappointed in my personal performance, but at the same time was inspired by some truly great players that have shown me today what time, patience and a hell of a lot of practice can help me achieve.
I hope to be able to come to many more jam days.
My wife looked at my t-shirt and just went 'oh...right'

Thanks again everyone.

Don't put so much pressure on yourself Nick, you did absolutely fine mate and it's a difficult thing to do! I'm absolutely certain I sounded fairly horrendous front of house both playing and singing and definitely made plenty of mistakes despite only doing relatively simple rhythm parts. Absolutely loved the experience though, can't wait to get better and do it again!

Thanks for the guitar stand and was great to meet you and so many other genuinely nice people. Fab day!

impmann · September 2017

Nobody should feel disappointed - the audience loved it.

mrkb · September 2017

I can't only echo the comments of the other 'inexperienced jammers' I had a blast - thanks all!!

vasselmeyer · September 2017

I'm sitting here in my campsite in Northumberland reading about you guys having an amazing time. I'm also having an awesome time looking in one of the only Dark Skies areas of England but I'm slightly jealous of you all.

Bring on the Northern jam!

TTony · September 2017

Home

Drummer of the day award goes to @octatonic - 5hrs of pretty impressive playing!
Keysman of the day award goes to @Horse - for another 5hrs of pretty impressive playing.
Stepper-in of the day award goes to @bigjon for playing a variety of instruments and vocals across the majority of songs.
Above and beyond award of the day goes to @Legionreturns for a huge journey to collect ChrisMusic and (presumably) return him
Goldtop of the day award to @impmann ;;
Organiser of the day, week, month, year award @Bridgehouse for getting it all to happen (particularly with his day job workload too)

Guitarist of the day award to everyone who got up, plugged in, and played or just watched and appreciated - because that was the whole point of the day.

So, same time, same day, same place, next year .....

Alegree · September 2017

impmann said:

After much consideration, I'm bringing the Tele partcaster fitted with a set of @Alegree Cirrostratus pickups - I'm guessing few folks will have heard Alex's pickups yet and they are great IMHO.

I *could* (if there is space in the car) bring the Jazzmaster (GSPBases body, paint by Rich, Mascis neck, Mojo pickups, Mastery bridge/trem) if there is any interest to anyone who'd like to have a play around with an offset.

Let me know... :-)

Hope they went down well

Thanks for the representation.

impmann · September 2017

Sadly at last minute, the Tele stayed home due to bad rattles after changing the strings and no time to sort...

Bridgehouse · September 2017

impmann said:

Sadly at last minute, the Tele stayed home due to bad rattles after changing the strings and no time to sort...

That gold top was a bit average tho, wasn't it?

viz · September 2017

spark240 said:

I can only echo what's already been said, good venue, good organisation, I honesty it didn't think all the songs would get done ! ...but they did with time to spare

Over-excited drummer probably.

Bridgehouse · September 2017

viz said:

spark240 said:

I can only echo what's already been said, good venue, good organisation, I honesty it didn't think all the songs would get done ! ...but they did with time to spare

Over-excited drummer probably.

Nah, we have him tramodol..

It was actually more likely that we didn't have to stop and restart many songs at all... in fact, I was staggered by the quality right across the board. Some songs could have been gigged as-was and would have been judged to be perfectly acceptable in most scenarios..

TTony · September 2017

The version of Comfortably - at the end of the day when everyone was exhausted - was particularly stunning, IMHO.

Flink_Poyd · September 2017

TTony said:

The version of Comfortably - at the end of the day when everyone was exhausted - was particularly stunning, IMHO.

That and the early play of Foxy Lady, @bigjon bought the energy to the frontman role

ennspek · September 2017

I'm gutted I missed it in the end, unavoidable sadly, but it seems like it was a great success.
Thanks to all those who put the time in, @Bridgehouse I'm particular.

thomasross20 · September 2017

Videos..?

TTony · September 2017

thomasross20 said:

Videos..?

digitalscream said:

TTony said:

Bridgehouse said:

aord43 said:

Not sure who's responsible for the video but, per pre-jam discussion regarding permission/veto, I am fine with video of my performances being released, if the others are OK with it. That's Mustang Sally #2 and Sunshine of Your Love #2.

@digitalscream - I believe his intention is to chop the video up and distribute to those playing, who can then choose to keep, destroy etc.

@digitalscream - how about we (as in, mainly you)

Chop the video up into the individual songs
Sync the sound
Upload to our YT channel in private mode
Create a new - temp - section here, accessible only to those who played on any of the tracks
Publish a link to the tracks in that section (thread per song perhaps)
Collate the release approvals in each thread
Release to the wide open world
If you're happy doing 1, 2 & 3, I'll deal with 4, 5, 6 & 7

??

Sounds like a good plan.

Fair warning to everyone - I've got 32GB of video and 8GB of audio to go through, and I'm decorating the lounge this week. It might be a week or two before it's all ready to go.

I'll probably end up tweaking the audio a reasonable amount too (probably just compression and EQ), but I'll also keep an ear out for any amusing/embarrassing conversations held near the mics...

Bridgehouse · September 2017

@TTony - I think this thread can sink now (sob!) as we have the other chat sticky thread for the photos and vids..

Don't worry folks, there will be plenty more sticky threads about upcoming jams in the future

TTony · September 2017

Bridgehouse said:

@TTony - I think this thread can sink now (sob!) as we have the other chat sticky thread for the photos and vids..

And now it sinks ....

Adji · September 2017

Glad you guys had a good time. Pics look great, hopefully I can attend one (in a personal capacity) in the future!

mrkb · October 2022

Ive just had a flashback to this event - was amazed to see it was 5 years ago now (though I guess 2 years of covid changes made it seem longer)- it got me out of the bedroom and playing live with others. I was at the Bristol jam last weekend - so its legacy still lives on!

Bridgehouse · October 2022

It was the first of a kind and was huge fun I must admit. Sad that one of the leading protagonists there is no longer with us….

In fact, one of the leading protagonists from the southern jam is no longer with us either.

Very sad.

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