All Hands/2015 Whistler/jam band
Work Week Jam Session (TBD / Draft)
The idea is to have a selection of musical equipment available in a room during the work week. Mozillians who play instruments can come down get together with other musicians and either Jam something or work on a specific tune whether it's original material or a cover. We'd be looking for singers, guitarists, bassists, drummers etc.
The idea is that we'd rehearse during downtime in the evenings so that we could play a set at the end of the week.
Before we get this idea off the ground the first part of this is finding out if people are interested in doing this and if there is enough interest from Mozilla musicians.
If you're keen to play please add your name and details to this table:
| Name | irc nick | Instruments | Musical interests | Bringing own instrument |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stuart Colville | muffinresearch | Guitar, Bass, Digeridu | Jamming/improv + covers | No |
| Eli Perelman | Eli | Drums | Jamming/improv + covers | No (maybe an auxiliary electronic pad) |
| Chris Mills | chrismills | Drum kit, hand drums/percussion (e.g. Djembe), vocals, lyric ideas, guitar (badly) | whatever comes up | I could bring hand drums, but not drum kit ;-) |
| Paul McLanahan | pmac | Guitar, Vocals | ALL THE THINGS! (I'll try anyway) | No |
| Daniel Maher | phrawzty | percussion, berimbau, vocals, lyrics | down for whatever | wavedrum (maybe) |
| David Durst | ddurst | keyboards | preferably not pop, but that's me | (I wish) No |
| Michal Dziewonski | drums, karaoke-grade vocals | jamming and post-sludge electronic ambient ;) | Nope, I can bring drum sticks, though | |
| Alon Zakai | azakai | Guitar (mostly but not only classical/nylon-string) | Rock, Bach, anything else | No |
| Dan Gohman | sunfish | keyboards, backup vocals, non-drumset percussion, schlagenfrappe | I'll try just about anything but preferrably no ukeleles | No |
| Mark Reid | mreid | Guitar, Bass | * | No, though I could possibly bring a little pedalboard for some fx & tuning |
| Example | Example | Example | Example |
Instrument Hire List Draft
Here's what we'd likely need to hire. Note: Don't add to this it'll be updated based on the table above. If you're a brass/woodwind player it'll probably be possible to bring an instrument as the size wouldn't be too much of a problem (That is assuming we're not talking about tubas :)).
| Description | Quantity |
|---|---|
| PA + Mixer (this will be room-size dependent) | 1 |
| Vocal/Instrument Mics + stands + leads | 5 |
| Electric Guitars + guitar stands + strap | 2 |
| Acoustic (ElectroAcoustic) Guitars + acoustic stands + strap | 2 |
| Bass Guitar + stand + strap | 1 |
| Bass Amp | 1 |
| Guitar Amp (Fender Deluxe or similar) | 2 |
| Keyboard + stand (something that can do good electric / acoustic piano sounds) | 1 |
| Full drum kit + stool | 1 |
| Hand percussion (bongos, tambourine, cajón, etc.) | ? |
| Kick drum mic | 1 |