Southern California Jam

[randolin]

Since the last jam went so well I will be hosting another jam for Southern California cafe members, lurkers and other lovers of FINE music. Everyone welcome.
April 29th at 8PM at 17013 Lisette St in Granada Hills.

[Rick Schmidlin]

I will be there and will also contact Mike Mullin. I told him about the last one and he was interested if any would happen in the future.

[jasona]

I'll be there this time!

[randolin]

We need a Bass player.....anyone out there want to join us?

[Pedal Steel Mike]

I have tentative other plans for that night. Chances are I won't be able to make this one, but anything is possible.

[WireBoy]

i too have to miss this one. maybe next time.

[Jack Roberts]

Let me see if Kevin and Ron can make it. Do you want an guitar player?

[Pedal Steel Mike]

I definately can't make this one. Hopefully I'll be there for the next one. I'll bring some chord charts for a few tunes.

It would be nice if we can make this a regular monthly or semi-monthly thing. Perhaps rotating locations so no one person has to drive too far every time.

Unfortunately my house is very small and I don't have room for a large (or even medium size) group of people.

[Jack Roberts]

Kevin can't make it.

[Rick Schmidlin]

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[randolin]

We have a bunch of pickers from Saturday's jam at the Blueridge coming as well so we should have a nice crowd.

[Rick Schmidlin]

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[randolin]

Jack is Ron available to play bass?

[Jack Roberts]

More bad news. As you know he has lots of children, and they all have stuff going on, so he sends his regrets.

Maybe I ought to take up bass.

[randolin]

We Still need a bass player... anyone out there?

[Daniel Nestlerode]

I can't make it for 3 reasons.
1) I live north of the Grapevine and the drive would be prohibitively lengthy
2) I don't play bass
3) I'll be at the opening of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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have towel, will travel.
Daniel (now where did I put that babelfish?)

[randolin]

Anyone that DOES play bass want to join us?

[Rick Schmidlin]

I can't wait till tonight http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mandosmiley.gif http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[randolin]

We STILL need a BASS PLAYER...
any volunteers?

[Rick Schmidlin]

Thanks Randy, boy you had some great pickin' buddies there.We didn't even need a bass.

A fine night had.

[jasona]

Randy--thanks for a great evening at your lovely home. Interesting bit of history there.

Nice to have met (or remet in some cases) the lot of you. Rick--that Pruscha was a very sweet sounding thing, as were the Gibsons. And that Collings was a powerful mandolin.

Now the bad news: I have to practice a lot more http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

Cheers all!

[Jack Roberts]

Thanks again to Randolin

I had to leave early to pick up my son, but here is an almost complete list of the tunes played last night:

Devil's Dream, A
Fireball Mail, G
Jimmy Brown the Newsboy
8th of January, G
Dixie Hoedown, G
Billy in the Low Ground, C
Fireball, G
Bill Cheatham, D
Nobody's Darling but Mine, B
I'll Fly Away, A
Old Joe Clark
Lynch Mountain Backstep, A
Pike County Breakdown
Down the Road, B
Foggy Mountain Rock, G
(then I had to leave)

That Uke was spectacular again.

As for musicians, we had a larger group than last time, but Ron and Kevin couldn't make it, and were missed. I guess there were 4 or 5 full time mandolin pickers, 4 mandolin choppers (those of us who don't know most of these tunes-or can't play them to speed-so we just chopped along.) A Banjo, two guitars, and Randolin showing his virtuosity on guitar, mandolin, and banjo. Also, two vocalists, one bass and one "high and lonesome."

[randolin]

Thanks to all for coming and making it such a great jam.

[WireBoy]

sounds like fun. #I had to work till about 1am. #hope i can make the next one.

[Pedal Steel Mike]

I'll try and make the next one too.

For me, one of the joys of the first jam was that different people had different musical backgrounds, and we all had a chance to play things that were unfamiliar.(Yes there were some trainwrecks, but that's part of the fun.) I hope that we continue to play diverse styles of music. Next time I'm going to bring some chord charts for a few tunes.

Anybody willing to try "Take 5?"

[WireBoy]

take 5 ? # yeah !

[randolin]

Bring it on Mike !!!

[Daniel Nestlerode]

Hey, if you guys are going to make a regular event of it, you might want to post it on the California Bluegrass Association's web site calendar, here (http://www.cbaontheweb.org/calendar/index.aspx).

Plus our esteemed host just started up (at our request) a section for regional events.

Best,
Daniel

[Pedal Steel Mike]

I would prefer as much advance notice as possible. I coudn't make the last one because I had a previous engagement. Had I know about the jam earler, I would have been able to reschedule my other appointment.

The more notice we have, the easier it is to make plans to attend.