Wycombe High Jam + Gear fest - 18th November 23

Jonathangus · October 2023

With just a few of us, I reckon a gearfest is the way to go. Do we have a venue?

TheMarlin · October 2023

Gearfest appeals!

Winny_Pooh · October 2023

https://www.weststarstudio.com/

?

Neilybob · October 2023

Jonathangus said:

With just a few of us, I reckon a gearfest is the way to go. Do we have a venue?

Gearfest sounds great.

@Winny_Pooh said:
Gear fest and jam?

2-3 rooms

https://www.weststarstudio.com/

23 or 30 Sep

I'm bringing guitars and amps.

I guess jammers will sort their setlist and the rest of us bring gear.

Flip · November 2023

I would have thought that to be discussing choice of dates three weeks from the target period should tell you something. Successful events don't just happen at short notice and you're competing with guitar fairs, open mic nights, jam sessions etc and individual diaries around the country.

Add to that the target location that means many people travelling a couple of hundred miles and buying a night or two in a hotel, well I think it's all a bit optimistic.

Sorry to pour cold water on an idea but you should also remember that the guitar is an instrument not a style of music. A bagpipe convention for example might attract people who by definition would tend to favour a reasonably well-defined musical genre. On the other hand folk fans, classical enthusiasts, heavy metal players and jazzers - all guitarists - might well feel fairly remote from each other even though they all play the same type of instrument.

I'm sure the organisers have an idea about this but asking if someone knows a drummer or a a bassist a month ahead of target date begs the question what sort of musicians are you looking for? Jazz kit drummer? Conga expert? Orchestral percussionist? Do you want readers or someone who's got a tambourine?

My suggestion would be that the organisers start work now on an event for 2024. Decide on the genre, the venue, and the music. Publish the music for the readers, the chords for the strummers and the sounds if possible for the ear players. Accept that the list of fretboarders interested in your event wont be universal but hope it includes enough to make the effort and expense worthwhile.

Winny_Pooh · November 2023

No. This is a local meetup, for local people

Small is fine. It can be a trial run for something bigger later. If that's even desirable in the first place.

soma1975 · November 2023

I just wanna have a go on other people's kit. We can muck about playing with some bloody backing tracks for all I care.

sev112 · November 2023

Flip said:

I would have thought that to be discussing choice of dates three weeks from the target period should tell you something. Successful events don't just happen at short notice and you're competing with guitar fairs, open mic nights, jam sessions etc and individual diaries around the country.

Add to that the target location that means many people travelling a couple of hundred miles and buying a night or two in a hotel, well I think it's all a bit optimistic.

Sorry to pour cold water on an idea but you should also remember that the guitar is an instrument not a style of music. A bagpipe convention for example might attract people who by definition would tend to favour a reasonably well-defined musical genre. On the other hand folk fans, classical enthusiasts, heavy metal players and jazzers - all guitarists - might well feel fairly remote from each other even though they all play the same type of instrument.

I'm sure the organisers have an idea about this but asking if someone knows a drummer or a a bassist a month ahead of target date begs the question what sort of musicians are you looking for? Jazz kit drummer? Conga expert? Orchestral percussionist? Do you want readers or someone who's got a tambourine?

My suggestion would be that the organisers start work now on an event for 2024. Decide on the genre, the venue, and the music. Publish the music for the readers, the chords for the strummers and the sounds if possible for the ear players. Accept that the list of fretboarders interested in your event wont be universal but hope it includes enough to make the effort and expense worthwhile.

All excellent points.
I look forward to signing up for your event in due course

what dates and locations are you planning for

Flip · November 2023

Winny_Pooh said:

No. This is a local meetup, for local people

Small is fine. It can be a trial run for something bigger later. If that's even desirable in the first place.

Perhaps I missed it in an early post. I though Fretboard was national or even international so ignore my suggestion as you wish.

Winny_Pooh · November 2023

Flip said:

Winny_Pooh said:

No. This is a local meetup, for local people

Small is fine. It can be a trial run for something bigger later. If that's even desirable in the first place.

Perhaps I missed it in an early post. I though Fretboard was national or even international so ignore my suggestion as you wish.

That was mainly a joke in the vein of "local pub for local people"

sev112 · November 2023

Ok chaps, how many are we for this, and what’s it costing us. I am certainly up for coming along

on previous meet ups I’ve sang and played (I think) Since You Been Gone / All Night Long (both Rainbow), Sweet Home Alabama, and played bass on Black Magic Woman and something else that I can’t recall. I’m sure I could re-work those out again.

any other suggestions for some things to strum along to

soma1975 · November 2023

If we are going to play music and not just play with gear I fancy doing something Crowes that ISN'T Hard to Handle. Maybe Remedy or something off SHAMC?

Or I like the idea of a Hendrix jam track like Who Knows, Hear my Train or similar where everyone can have a bit of fun but it's also fun to sit back and play some rhythm and fills?

lovestrat74 · November 2023

I thought it was going to be a gear fest now rather than a jam, no? That's what I told my boy so he may have made other plans.

I guess we need to confirm what it is and as Sev said, the cost etc.

Neilybob · November 2023

lovestrat74 said:

I thought it was going to be a gear fest now rather than a jam, no? That's what I told my boy so he may have made other plans.

I guess we need to confirm what it is and as Sev said, the cost etc.

I honestly don't think we have enough time to setup a jam so definitely do a gear fest instead.

Should I start a new thread for the gear fest?

soma1975 · November 2023

Gearfest absolutely fine by me.

Neilybob · November 2023

Moved here instead because as they say third times a charm! Pffffft

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