Re: [Harp-L] The Pain Killers - Antone's

[Joseph Leone <3n037@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tough question...Tough tough question.
Tonights house band: Baby grand piano, double bass, trap set, vibes, chromatic/singer. Plays the first set while sojourners are still eating.
 
Guests: 3 piano players, 3 drummers, 1 guitar, 1 female singer, 3 male singers. Not too hard to schedule everyone in this case. But every 
jam is different and even the same jam can BE different on different nights. Sometimes we have as many as 3 sax players...oh, and maybe
 a trumpet, OR clarinet, OR piccolo, OR melodion, or trombone, or or or. 

 With so many keyboardists, we can run continuously. We do not use a sign up, but if someone can't cut the mustard, they are told that they
 are: "Not ready". We host an open jam but we have enough visiting snow birds and locals, that we can't afford to run a Ted Mack's amateur
 3 hours.  

smo-joe


On Apr 1, 2012, at 8:26 PM, Elizabeth Hess wrote:

> Hi, Arthur,
> 
> Right, but do you stop letting people even sign up, when "the list gets full", or do you tell people, "Sorry, maybe next time," if they've signed up but the evening comes to an end and there isn't time for them to have a turn on stage, or something else?
> 
> Elizabeth
> 
> On Apr 1, 2012, at 8:22 PM, Arthur Jennings wrote:
> 
>> Hi Elizabeth,
>> 
>> On a typical jam stage, there will be a set of drums, a bass amplifier, two or three vocal mics, a couple of guitar amps and, if you're lucky, a harp amp and a keyboard of some kind. That pretty much limits how many people you can put in the band.
>> 
>> On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Elizabeth Hess <TrackHarpL@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I'm curious about "the list getting full."
>> 
>> I was recently (playing harp) at an open jam where there were many more jammers than expected, and they handled it by putting larger and larger groups of people on stage per set as the hour got late.
>> 
>> Do you limit the number of people who may sign up and then close the list?  Not that I'm in danger of running a jam anytime soon, but I'm always interested in how other people do it.
>> 
>> Elizabeth
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