Three Good Measures, take two?

[annathepiper]

For casirafics, solcita, and ceallaighgirl: The surviving MP3s from the jam sessions of Three Good Measures, circa 2001-2003, can be found on my web page here. All the Jam Reports are now archived in my LJ memories here.

Side note to wingedelf, sarekofvulcan, and howlinhobbit (and actually, anyone else in the local crowd who has any interest in GBS-style kitchen-party-type jam sessions, not to mention the consumption of PIE): there was talk last night of potential interest in a resurrection of Three Good Measures!

So consider this post a general gauging of interest. In TGM's prior incarnation, the way it worked was that we met on Sunday afternoons, generally every other week unless we really needed to practice hard (as we did for Monica's wedding), and hung out for roughly three or four hours, playing music, and having solarbird record us on her minidisc player. Then we'd have pie and review the recording, try to learn from anywhere we screwed up, and decide whether or not we had any publically listenable takes of stuff. If we did, Dara would make MP3's and I'd post 'em!

Since I know that people tend to have busy busy schedules and other commitments--I myself am trying to write, after all--and since Dara and I are now located in Kenmore, I know this might make getting to us a bit tough for some folks. I'm thinking maybe something on the scale of "monthly" might be a nice place to start if we wanted to make a serious effort to do this.

If folks are really interested in this, drop me a comment. I'd also like to invite anyone interested to join the mailing list we still have up for the jamming group, since several of our prior jammers are not on LJ and I would want to get in-depth discussion of any plans going on there.

Comments

Pie?

[sarekofvulcan.livejournal.com]

I'm in. :-)

Re: Pie?

[annathepiper]

Hurray! :)

hm

[wrog]

I'm tempted to ask whether you want/need a keyboard player.

Admittedly, I'm perhaps more of a jazz person than a folk person, and I don't know beans about GBS (apart from that one song you posted about last year), but there might still be a fit.

Re: hm

[annathepiper]

In times past, while we played a huge amount of Great Big Sea songs just because a big core of us were raving GBS fans and that's the stuff we wanted to play, that wasn't all we played either. We periodically did pick up other things, generally spurred by people saying, "I really love such-and-such, we should try that!" That's how Monica got us to tackle "You Woke Up My Neighborhood" by Billy Bragg, which turned into another of our group favorites. :)

We also sometimes did stuff that really wasn't folk at all--a few songs written by daspatrick, and "Stray Cat Strut" of all things, whenever we felt like breaking out Patrick's and spazzkat's electric guitars.

I would pretty much expect this to be a fundamental tenet of a second version of the jamming group, too. Lots of GBS to be expected, periodic bursts of other folk music as well, and occasional incidents of something completely different.

Long story short? If you'd be interested in attending, we'd love to have you. One of Great Big Sea's songs, "Goin' Up", is all about the "kitchen party" concept and has a line in it that goes "there's thirty people in the kitchen and there's always room for more".

That applies here. :)

[howlinhobbit.livejournal.com]

w00t!

More jam reports on the way then?

I find it hard to picture my instrumentation with GBS type songs... replace the bodhran with washboard? I dunno...

You allow "audience who occasionally strum along on uke"? :-)

[annathepiper]

If I can actually corral people into doing this, then yes, this means more jam reports!

And you've read them, so you know that we did periodically play other things besides GBS and even sometimes other things besides folk. I expect much the same to happen this time around, but I would like to encourage anyone who would like to explore any music near and dear to their hearts and reasonable for whatever mix of instruments shows up to say, "Let's play THIS!"

Also, listeners and people who just want to hang out would also be very welcome. That's what the whole kitchen party concept is about, anyway. :)