All Hands/2015 Whistler/jam band
Work Week Jam Session
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.
Activity location
Rainbow Theatre, Lower Level, Whistler Conference Centre
Times activity will be available
Roughly 6pm till about 11.30pm, Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday.
Tuesday 23rd June participants
Key holder:
Other attendees: gfritzsche
Wednesday 24rd June participants
Key holder:
Other attendees:
Thursday 25rd June participants
Key holder:
Other attendees: gfritzsche
Track list
Put the details of any tracks you're interested in covering so other like-minded musicians can have a listen and maybe work out some of the parts. Put your name too so we know what day you're playing.
| Name | irc nick | Song/Track + Artist | Resources (e.g. audio (e.g spotify) etc) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chris Mills | chrismills | Something by Black Sabbath, Metallica or the Dead Kennedys, cos it's easy to play drums to | Trawl on Youtube |
Raw participant list
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 |
| Chad Weiner | chadw | Bass/Vocals | I'm in a Phish tribute band so...let's call it jamming/improv | 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 mainly love metal/prog/punk/horrible noise, but I am very open minded. | 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 |
| Rehan Dalal | rdalal | Guitar, Vox | I'm open to anything | Yes, I'll have my baritone Strat. Will need an amp. |
| Gerv Markham | gerv | Vocals | Happy to try anything | Yes :-) |
| Georg Fritzsche | gfritzsche | Bass | jamming, funky stuff, rock, odd rythms | No |
| Syd Polk | sydpolk | soprano or alto sax + flute | jazz, classical, soul, funk, r&b | yes |
| Jb Piacentino | jb | Vocals | About anything, pref rock | Sure! |
| Nihanth Subramanya | nhnt11 | Guitar | Blues/rock, but probably anything else as well. | No :( |
| Matthew Ruttley | mruttley | Classical Guitar but can stretch to others | Early Music, Lute, Swing, Contemporary classical | No |
| Myk Melez | myk | Drums | I like both kinds of music. | Not likely. |
| Jeremie Patonnier | Jeremie | Guitar | Jamming (Rock, Funk, Jazz, whatever) | No :( |
| Justin Terry | jterry | Guitar (Electric/Acoustic) & Mandolin | Classic, Funk, Folk, Indie, Jam, most things | Bringing my Mandolin, but would love to jam on a guitar too! |
| Bill Walker | bwalker | Keyboards, backup vocals | Jazz standards and rock covers | Will bring jazz fakebook PDF's |
| 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, but make it big enough to handle drum input + all the possible inputs below) | 1 |
| Vocal/Instrument Mics + stands + leads | 8 |
| Electric Guitars + guitar stands + strap | 3 |
| Acoustic (ElectroAcoustic) Guitars (at least 1 of which has nylon strings) + acoustic stands + strap | 3 |
| Bass Guitar + stand + strap (one 4 string bass and one 5 string, perhaps? Make sure at least one is 4 string) | 2 |
| Bass Amp (at least 2x10"/2x12"? e.g. SWR Redhead) | 1 |
| Guitar Amp (Fender Deluxe or similar) | 2 |
| Keyboard + stand + stool (something that can do good electric / acoustic piano / organ sounds) | 1 |
| Full drum kit + stool, with double bass drum pedal? | 2 |
| Kick drum mic | 2 |
| Hand percussion (bongos, tambourine, cajón, etc.) | ? |
| Spare strings for all the guitars and basses | ? |
We are unable to rent: Digeridu Berimbau Schlagenfrappe