Feb 23, 2012 Jam Session

This jam session took place last week at Astoria Soundworks in room C. I guess we had slacked on booking the room until it was pretty late so we ended up in one of the premium rooms which isn't all that bad but it costs more. I think we got a more spacious sound due to the bigger space. We also checked our volumes better this time. We got scientific and used a decibel meter because I have a hard time playing drums when I can't hear them over the guitars. It seems no matter how low his amp is Eric can find extra juice in his massive guitar rig.

My recommendations for this jam would be Spaghetti Western which was kind of fun. Circus Tent is silly but kind of cool. And Floppy Green Thing is my favorite but it's 19 minutes long. For FGT Jamie started tapping out a cool rhythm so I followed on the drums.

I find my mistakes a lot more tolerable than usual. I think i managed to find more graceful ways out of bad situations. I tried switching up the rhythms quite a lot and Jamie and I are learning how to telepathically stop and start at the same time. Great fun. I also spent a lot of time mixing this down with some new studio monitors as well. The bass guitar sound was almost entirely too low frequency to be heard so I EQed and compressed the bejesus out of it.

Lately we are sticking with the same line-up for the entire jam. I think we're trying to play more seriously in preparation for a gig opportunity some time in the near future.

If you make it all the way to the end of Floppy Green Thing, please listen till the end. It's freaking hilarious!

Fuzz Bucket:
Eric : guitar
Jamie : Novax CH7
Dan : drums