Re: Sit-Ins (sessions)/MORE

[Barry Schaede <barrys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In my experience it's all amplified.  Even the folk venues I play with my 
acoustic trio generally require amplification.  An awful lot of subtlety 
gets lost this way.  I don't think I've ever had a memorable or moving 
time at a blues jam. It's all a big competetive game.  This is why I 
never go anymore.  When I do go I won't sit in.  I just go to see if 
anything's changed.  It never has, same people playing the same 12 songs 
the same way letting the same 5 friends get up and play.  Maybe my 
experience is narrow.  Someone out there tell me about a good blues jam 
experience.  I did goto a small coffee house in Phoenix once called 
Fiddlers Dream.  They do truly let up any who wants to play.  The 
audiences are rapt.  You get thrown out for talking.  The parking lot is 
full of musiicians playing.  The place is a closet.  (small)  It's all 
acoustic.   You'd never get within 3 blocks of the place with an amp.  FJM