South West Jam - Factory Studios (Bristol) Edition - 8th June 2019

mrkb · April 2019

Paid

Brocco · April 2019

Thank you Mark - list updated. Let's have your song suggestions!

fandango · April 2019

mrkb said:

Paid

Thanks Mark.

Brocco · April 2019

Calling on everyone to have a think about who you can nudge about this event to get numbers up

Funkfingers · April 2019

Here is the song list, so far.

Song Title	Original Artiste
Comfortably Numb	Pink Floyd
Rock And Roll	Led Zeppelin
Sit Down	James
Rocks	Primal Scream
Just Like Heaven	The Cure
Hero	Foo Fighters
Move Over	Slade
Almost Cut My Hair	Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Bad Company	Bad Company
If You Want Blood (You Got It)	AC/DC
All Right Now	Free
Motorcycle Emptiness	Manic Street Preachers
Teenage Kicks	The Undertones
Girl From Mars	Ash
The Wind Cries Mary	Jimi Hendrix
Alive	Pearl Jam
Ironman	Black Sabbath
Arc Of A Diver	Steve Winwood

Some of these are subscribers' first choices. Others are alternative suggestions until better ones are nominated by new subscribers. I am certain that you can come up with some thing better.

Legionreturns · April 2019

Have we actually got anywhere near covering costs yet? This looks very under subscribed at the moment

roberty · April 2019

Legionreturns said:

Have we actually got anywhere near covering costs yet? This looks very under subscribed at the moment

What's the target dude and how far along are we

Brocco · April 2019

The cost is approx £560 (which includes an allowance for a drummer, gives us a studio with engineer, two rehearsal rooms and a chill out space). We therefore need a minimum of 21 paying attendees.

At this point we have 9 confirmed attendees, 6 of whom have paid. My guess is that 5 of us who are currently only listed as organisers will also want to participate in the main room sessions and would therefore pay subs (@Alnico, @dazzajl, @fandango, @Funkfingers and myself), so that gives us 14 people, 7 short of what we need.

Our fallback would be to adjust the booking so we have less rooms and therefore need fewer attendees. The minimum cost (studio+rehearsal room+drummer) is likely to be circa £425, which would be covered by 16 paying attendees.

Legionreturns · April 2019

@Brocco if the recording element is expensive I could always bring my R16 and handle recording. 8 track in, so we can mix and master afterwards.

munckee · April 2019

Morning chaps, its water rats in woking on saturday. After last years, which was my first ever jam, I was full of beans and raring to jam again - might be worth sticking a note on the water rats threads on next week and catch some enthusiasm!

Brocco · April 2019

@Legionreturns - we are being charged £250 for the studio & engineer, so maybe there is scope to lower that particular cost?

@munckee - thank you, will do

Alnico · April 2019

I haven’t paid yet.
Payday is 25th.

Consider me in.
I wasn’t going to take part in much of the main room but I’m not going to not-pay, just been the most difficult couple of financial months we’ve known for ages.

@Brocco ;
I’ll PM you this weekend.

Funkfingers · April 2019

Brocco said:
fallback ... adjust the booking ... fewer attendees.

It is generous of the venue to be flexible over this aspect. Is there a cut off date when commitment has to be made to one size of event or the other?

Brocco · April 2019

@Funkfingers - I defer to @fandango...

fandango · April 2019

Hi guys, sorry, work and looking for non-guitar ways to spend my money has kept me from updating until now.

I’m not sure what to say..... but I’ll try ......

The next time I can check the paypal account to see who's paid, will be tomorrow (friday) evening.

There’s space for more people, definitely. It would be great to see the next darthed raise a hand and commit to the challenge. I’m pleased to see a few established faces are making the effort. Many thanks, guys.

To those who have just returned from a gap year Outer Mongolia and are reading this wondering what I’m blathering about - go read about Sasquatch Feb 2018 for a taster as to how much these jams can help improve your guitar playing.

Would really love to see more south westerners wade in and make Bristol Jam 2019 a success.

@alnico - I feel your pain with the lack of moolah. Whenever you’re ready.

Brocco said:

@Legionreturns - we are being charged £250 for the studio & engineer, so maybe there is scope to lower that particular cost?

I challenged them when I booked it, but it needs to be worthwhile for the engineer to get out of bed. I got the impression they weren’t going to let anybody else play on their desk.

It’s now dinner time and I’m hungry, so I’ll try come back and continue this later......

roberty · April 2019

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Alnico · April 2019

@fandango ;
Thanks man.

I'll make sure it's done on the 25th.

Funkfingers · April 2019

roberty said:

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Morse Code, eh?

roberty · April 2019

Funkfingers said:

roberty said:

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Morse Code, eh?

That's morse code for 'fat fingers'

Legionreturns · April 2019

@fandango as I said earlier, if you want to, and it's possible to avoid that cost, I can handle the recordings and won't need to use their studio or control room. As long as we can DI or mic everything we're fine. I've got plenty of cables, can borrow drum mics (although if anyone local has them, that would be better) and have at least one SM57 for micing a guitar cab. I have a bass amp with DI out, as well as a couple of guitar amps, vocal mics and a snake to get it all to my portable desk. Can even use my PA if that helps.

mrkb · April 2019

Ive got an e906 to mic a cab with if needed.

fandango · April 2019

Legionreturns said:

@fandango as I said earlier, if you want to, and it's possible to avoid that cost, I can handle the recordings and won't need to use their studio or control room. As long as we can DI or mic everything we're fine. I've got plenty of cables, can borrow drum mics (although if anyone local has them, that would be better) and have at least one SM57 for micing a guitar cab. I have a bass amp with DI out, as well as a couple of guitar amps, vocal mics and a snake to get it all to my portable desk. Can even use my PA if that helps.

That would halve the venue-related costs. And we’d only lose one room.

roberty · April 2019

I've got a C414...

Legionreturns · April 2019

roberty said:

I've got a C414...

We should be good for 3 amps then, and DI bass.

Drum mics, I'd only stick 2 in, kick and overhead. That would leave 2 channels for vocal mics.

roberty · April 2019

Legionreturns said:

roberty said:

I've got a C414...

We should be good for 3 amps then, and DI bass.

Drum mics, I'd only stick 2 in, kick and overhead. That would leave 2 channels for vocal mics.

Nice! Sounds like a plan then

Legionreturns · April 2019

Things that would make my life easier if we go down this route:

Fixed backline of amps, set loud and clean, so that people can plug their boards in but levels stay roughly the same

Anyone local who has a decent bass amp with a useable DI, would save me humping mine down the country.

If anyone can lay their hands on some drum mics, it means I'll not need to borrow them.

A second person willing to learn how to share desk duty (so I actually get to jam!)

Not having to spend days mixing and mastering afterwards. The raw stems can be sent to whoever wants to do this. I've just got far too much on, and, without wanting to sound harsh, I'm doing this for free to make the event financially viable.

Is that all fair enough?

mrkb · April 2019

I’ve got kick and snare mics - 1 of each, and a small mixer if you need to create a drum mix

munckee · April 2019

For water rats we are doing a mixing challenge with the stems.

mart · April 2019

I can bring a bass amp with DI, and I’d be happy to share some desk duties - I’m no expert but I do have a little bit of experience, so with a few hints should be able to manage.

roberty · April 2019

I can mind the desk too

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