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Location: NJ | Once again, this year’s Friday Evening Post-Tour Jam will be held at Ski Sundown which is only a couple miles from the Factory.
As GREAT a time as we had (indoors) last year, the previous year’s outdoor foray was AWESOME!!
If you were there last year (or the year before), you KNOW how cool the place was.
If you weren’t, you’re in for a treat!
Hopefully, this year’s weather will cooperate with us.
Unfortunately, Matt Smith will be out on tour this year and will be unable to join us.
Consequently, Al has accepted my offer to act as a somewhat de facto “emcee” for this year’s festivities.
The evening will transpire pretty much like any other “OpenMic” that we’ve ALL been to (Sign-Up Sheet, Time Limit, etc.)
The “challenge” we’ll have THIS year, is that we’ll probably have the largest number of people participating than we’ve EVER had.
Unfortunately, we’ll be working within the same time constraints for the venue as we did in previous years.
In past years, we’ve had instances where the first few “acts” might come up and do three, four and sometimes five songs,
and then by the end of the night, we’re “out of time”, and there’ve been people who’ve been “edged out” . . .
In order to alleviate this, I’d like to institute an “INITIAL” limit of two tunes.
You sign-in, you come up and do your two songs, and allow the next person in line to come up.
If/when it gets to the point that we reach the end of the list and nobody “new” wants to come up, we’ll open it up to those who’ve already “been”
to re-“sign”, come up and do one more tune (or possibly two, depending on how we’re doing on “time”).
I just want to ensure that everyone there has a fair opportunity to participate, if they’d like to.
I’d also like to ask that we do this on somewhat of an “Honour System”.
If you want (or have arranged for) other members to come up and accompany you, PLEASE do so!
I’d just like to ask that we don’t have four guys up there all at once, all doing EACH member’s allotted 2 tunes – in effect doing 8 songs.
I’d like to keep this thing “moving along”, and it’d be nice to “mix things up” . . .
So . . .
As soon as we’ve gained access to the P.A. system, I’ll open-up with two real quick (I don’t play solos) tunes, while people sign up
(Jeanette will probably be there passing around the Sign-Up clipboard, if need be), and we’ll go down the list.
I’ll introduce each participant as they come up, and (if need be) assist with plugging/unplugging of instruments.
Please bear in mind, that the last allotted “closing” slot will (as in the past) be reserved for the OFC All-Star(?) Band.
(Bush isn’t the ONLY one with “Executive Privileges” :-)
The good folks at Ovation/Kaman have gone out on a financial/logistical “limb” to do this for us EVERY year (for 5years, now!)
and it really IS a HELLUVA lotta fun!!
It’s usually at THIS point in the All-Day Event that people have decided that they NEED t’come back again “NextYear”.
I sincerely hope that such will be the case Next Week.
See Y’There!!! |
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Location: closely held secret | Thanks for doing this, Cliff.
Originally posted by cliff:
I’d just like to ask that we don’t have four guys up there all at once, all doing EACH member’s allotted 2 tunes – in effect doing 8 songs. Question:
If we're doing 2 songs together with a group of people, will we be allowed a "solo" song (at some other point in the evening)? |
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Location: Carle Place, NY | Great job of doing the pre-jam orientation and organizing Cliff!! |
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Location: NJ | ". . If we're doing 2 songs together with a group of people, will we be allowed a "solo" song (at some other point in the evening)? . ."
Yeah, sure . . . I don't see why not . . .
Look, . . I don't wanna' be the "SongNazi" . . .
I just wanna give everyone a chance.
We'll just exercise "CommonSense"
(yes, I just realized what a ridiculous comment that just was . . .) |
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Location: closely held secret | Sounds great, Cliff. I'm sure you'll be an "entertaining" MC. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Cliff, If I planned on 2 songs which each had three verses but I left out the last verse of each song could I do another two verse song? Well, or maybe I just do a one verse song and then for the second song I could do the whole thing and the bonus third song could be limited to two verses, but maybe not the actual first and second verse because probably the third verse has the outro, well does that count as an additional verse? Or vice versa I could only do first verses, versus trying to actually do the verses in reverse order ... |
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| And what's going to happen to the common-sense when the emcee is on his second bottle of tequila? |
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Location: south east Michigan | Our songs are really short.
Can we do 3?? :D
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Accually I think that having someone at the helm will work out better for everyone.
Good idea
Thanks Cliff. |
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Location: NJ | ". . And what's going to happen to the common-sense when the emcee is on his second bottle of tequila? . ."
That's when Templeman and I do an interpretive dance depicting his "Townes VanZandt" story . . . |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Cliff,
Sounds good to me...I'm looking forward to this...Thanks for the hard work!
Blessings! :rolleyes: |
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Location: NJ | btw;
we WILL have a "Gong" . . . AND . . a "Hook"!!! |
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| Better to have a "Bong" and a "Hooker". Always so close cliff, so close.. |
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Location: NJ | The bong and the hooker'll will be up in Al's room while he's down in the lobby Thursday night . . . |
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Location: Athens, GA & Gnashville | I'll be in Al's room entertaining the hooker!! |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | With the bong? |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | Will American Trilogy count as one or three songs???
Any other medleys out there? |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | I am sooo Envious... (sob)...I do Wish that I could be there...arrange it in Danmark next year... :)
Vic |
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Location: NJ | thanks to cliff for volunteering to get this one organized.
If it was left up to me who knows what would happen.
anyone needs to do some extra tunes they can take my slot. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | I dibs Alices Restaurant and The Canadian Railroad Trilogy!
But I might need a little help with the costume changes. Any volunteers?
(Oh wait! I'm not going.....nevermind.) |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Cliff, do you remember just trying to get us to go to bed at your place??
Good luck with that....
(You want I should call my Italian relatives? Two are already accompanying the Wabbit from Oregon) |
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Location: NJ | Jeff;
shhhhhhhhh!!! . . .
This whole thing's just a clever "ruse" on my part . . .
I just wanted t'make sure that I got my two tunes "in" EARLY.
Then I'm taking a bottle of tequila and hot-wiring the ski-lift.
It could turn into a Free-for-All,
for all I care . . . . |
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Location: closely held secret | So, it'll be just like last year. |
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Location: NJ | well, yeah . . . |
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Location: Nashville TN. | Are we going to need a PA ???
I have a Fender Passport 150 and am Local.
Mics evrything needed. |
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Location: south east Michigan | The kind folks at the factory set up a great PA sytem for us. There is even someone there to tweak the knobs. Your own personal sound man.
But thanks for the offer PEZ! |
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