Jamming with Jamie and Niall 06/06/08

3 weeks ago Jamie Williams invited me and his friend Niall over to jam. It turned out to be a productive jam so we've made it a weekly thing. We've discovered that we like to experiment with weird syncopated odd time signatures. I'm posting some clips from our 2nd jam. We hope to have enough small clips of music that we can piece together songs some day. One of the nice things about our lineup is that we can switch places when we get bored.

1006a - mellow moody thing - Jamie drums, Niall guitar, Dan bass
1007a - we call this "six" after the time signature - Jamie drums, Niall guitar, Dan bass
1007b - driving alternative groove - Jamie drums, Niall guitar , Dan bass
1010a - jamie's funk - Jamie bass, Niall guitar , Dan drums
1010b - jamie's primus sounding thing - Jamie bass, Niall guitar, Dan drums
1014a - Niall's funk - Jamie guitar, Niall bass, Dan drums
1015a - shimmy's obnoxious drums (mostly 7/8 time) - Jamie bass, Niall guitar, Dan drums
1017d - "nine" - Jamie drums, Niall guitar, Dan bass
1017e - "11" - Jamie drums, Niall guitar, Dan bass
1018a - Ending on a good note - Jamie drums, Niall guitar, Dan bass

Guitars for sale

I'm planning to sell these beautiful guitars (sniff!)

1996 Emerald Green Paul Reed Smith CE 24 with Dimarzio Pickups and McCarty Style switches

1983 Tobacco Sunburst Gibson Les Paul Standard with graphite bridge saddles

Carvin custom 7-string electric guitar

I'm still working on the asking prices but look at how pretty they are!

Blue Sky Talent Show 2008

It was a great show! Here's the audio recording in its entirety:

The Players:
Jake Parker (mc and sideshow acts)
Tony Jung (singing, guitar, harmonica)
Joe Bonomo (singing, piano)
Kevin Daly and Jacob Carlson (funny song)
Jamie Williams (guitar and drums)
Ian Etra (plays guitar hero with his feet!)
Rob Cavaleri (drum set)
Dan Shimmyo (electric guitar solo, a.k.a. Eruption, special guest Alex Cuthbert)

bssTalentShow04302008.mp3 - whole show 164MB
bssTalentShow04302008-eruption.mp3 - just eruption 5.3MB

Will post separate tracks later when I get a chance.

More Volume! Less filling!

This week Jon turned up his amp and I moved the iPod to a new recording position. I didn't use any audio processing on this week's recordings. This is how they sound right out of the iPod. I found the only pair of drumsticks not shredded to bits. Apparently we have a termite problem.
MD: bass
JT: guitar
DS: drums
jam 1 funky warmup to some prog rock
jam 2 This one reminds me of The Police
jam 3 JT's 6/4 (twice as good as 3/4!)
jam 4 We spaced out for a bit

Sometimes I don't know when to stop

We just plugged in and started playing.
MD: bass
JT: guitar
DS: drums

jam1 warming up with some funk / rock
jam2 simple but addictive, couldn't find the ending...
jam3 jt's 3/4 thing

Double Jammy Lunch

Instead of lunch I met with MD (bass) and Jon T (guitar and guitar synth). I played drums. We charted out one jam and improvised the second. Check it out.

jam 1
jam 2

2 man blues(ky) jam

OK, I know it's been a long time... In the past few weeks there have been a couple memorable jams... MD came up with a funky tune in one of them, Maddog got me playing some old school Van Halen, but i just forgot to record them all. Well, this time I didn't forget. On Friday Jon Townley brought his semi-hollow electric and we decided to have a 2-man jam. He let me play his guitar while he played bass. We played for about 20 minutes. I'm posting the last little bit of our jam which was a basic blues pattern. I had a blast soloing over Jon's bass line and I really liked the tone I got from his guitar.

Listen to it here.