Blues Jam nights

[Paul Cooke]

can you please give details of any you know of and review of how well they go if known

I'm trying to get back into the scene and thought this page would be useful for people to gather up all the jam nights they know of.

Gloucester and Cheltenham area appears to be dead going by web searches... so does anyone else know of any blues jam nights in this area?

[Happy Jack]

Good suggestion, Paul, but listing details of jam sessions currently running won't really work ... most of them change on a fairly frequent basis.

Might be better to post links to web-sites that either specialise in this sort of thing, e.g.

[url="http://www.bluesinlondon.com/"]http://www.bluesinlondon.com/[/url]

or which are run by specific venues/jammers, e.g.

[url="http://www.globaljam.biz/"]http://www.globaljam.biz/[/url]

[url="http://www.spiceoflifesoho.com/"]http://www.spiceoflifesoho.com/[/url]

[url="http://www.grey-horse.co.uk/gh/gh_welcome.php"]http://www.grey-horse.co.uk/gh/gh_welcome.php[/url]

[url="http://www.redliontwickenham.co.uk/"]http://www.redliontwickenham.co.uk/[/url]

[url="http://www.red-lion.info/"]http://www.red-lion.info/[/url]

I've visited / jammed at all of those five venues within the last couple of months.

[martinbass7750]

I'd be interested too - I've been attempting to put a blues band together in the gloucester area with a mate of mine for a while, but no luck finding other musicians so far.

[Paul Cooke]

[quote name='martinbass7750' post='53822' date='Sep 1 2007, 01:46 PM']I'd be interested too - I've been attempting to put a blues band together in the gloucester area with a mate of mine for a while, but no luck finding other musicians so far.[/quote]

you do realise I'm in Gloucester as well... bit problematic with your band though, difficult to fit two bassists in...

[martinbass7750]

[quote name='Paul Cooke' post='53868' date='Sep 1 2007, 03:58 PM']you do realise I'm in Gloucester as well... bit problematic with your band though, difficult to fit two bassists in...[/quote]

just like a bus - you wait for ages then two come along at the same time

I don't suppose you play anything else? or sing?

[Paul Cooke]

[quote name='martinbass7750' post='54219' date='Sep 2 2007, 03:36 PM']just like a bus - you wait for ages then two come along at the same time

I don't suppose you play anything else? or sing?[/quote]

singing would put me in the spotlight... people would be blinded by the glare off my bonce... it would mean having to find a suitable "Blues" hat... plus I haven't really sung in public since my voice broke some 35 years ago... I can do backing...

I could dig out my guitar and tune the bottom 4 strings DACD and play 7th chords to the progressions... or tune normally and double the bassline an octave higher... I've been meaning to get my guitar playing back up to scratch... no soloing or lead, just get the chords right and do the rhythm

[martinbass7750]

[quote name='Paul Cooke' post='54406' date='Sep 2 2007, 08:28 PM']singing would put me in the spotlight... people would be blinded by the glare off my bonce... it would mean having to find a suitable "Blues" hat... plus I haven't really sung in public since my voice broke some 35 years ago... I can do backing...

I could dig out my guitar and tune the bottom 4 strings DACD and play 7th chords to the progressions... or tune normally and double the bassline an octave higher... I've been meaning to get my guitar playing back up to scratch... no soloing or lead, just get the chords right and do the rhythm[/quote]

sound like you're from the same era as us - shiny domes included

hey - if you want to get together sometime to see if we can put something together, I'm game.