[Harp-L] Re: Never Call Out Stevie Wonder at a Blues Jam

[Joe Lempkowski <mr_jlemko@xxxxxxxxx>]

I guess I am sort of surprised by people that go to
Blues jams and bitch about the fact that everyone's
definition of Blues is different and then they act all
surprised when there is no common ground.

If you care about the quality of the music, the best
place to stretch the boundaries of musicianship is
probably not at a Blues jam.  It's probably at a band
rehearsal, where others are on the same page.

When I see guys like Hummel show up at a jam, they
don't pull out something obscure that's almost
guaranteed to sound like crap because everyone else on
the stage is clueless.  Instead, he'll pick a tune
that the entire group is going to sound decent doing
as a group.

Let's face it, if some knucklehead decides that the
group is going to play "Play That Funky Music, White
Boy" and no one else knows the tune, yet still demands
that they do it, it's going to sound like complete
garbage.

You have to work with what you've got.  Sometimes, I
get to jam with poor unfortunate people.  Sometimes,
poor unfortunate people have to jam with me.  It's
about compromise.  If you want to avoid trainwrecks,
you seek consensus.  Otherwise, a derailment is in the
not too distant future.

I guess that's a hard concept to grasp.




       
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