Topic: My jam with some friends
I've gotta tell everyone about my jam I went to last night. I work with a bunch of guitar heads and we've talked for years that we should get together and just jam a bit. Last night was our 2nd jam we ever did. Last month was the first but we didn't have a drummer back then. My friend Shane brought his cusin Jeff who has been playing drums for the last 30 years. Jeff brought everything together with the help of a lot of beer as well. So anyway let me tell you about the gear for a second. Shane had a Marshall JCM 600 50 watt head and 4x10 cab, One Les Paul Classic, and a 2007 Les Paul Standard. A guy named Chuck had a Squire strat but shane let him play through his Peavey Classic 50 4x10 amp. Then there was me I had a American series Stratocaster that I did some mods to and a Telecaster that didn't cut the butter at all, though a Fender hot rod Deluxe 40 watt combo 1x12. Also the key to the night was lots of beer and maybe some strawberry moonshine 
Songs came off as someone would start playing and Jeff the drummer would lay down the beat. Jeff was flat out the best drummer I ever played with he was awesome! I know I'll forget something but here we go a set list was something like this:
1) Wonderful Tonight - warmed up with and it was horrible
2) Cocaine - Slightly better but no vocals due to lack of power on our pa system
3) Voo Doo Child jam - We had no vocals but I made the vocals out with the guitar which sounded kind of cool it was one of the best jams of the night
4) Strangle Hold - we did this song twice last night because we thought the first time was alright and later we got the mics working better.
5) Tuesdays Gone - We still didn't have vocals but we could have been playing this as if we really were a band and got paid to do this.
6) 12 Bar Blues in C - this was just a jam and when we did this the whole place exploded. If your short on matterial a good blues jam is always a must! You'll see a couple of these.
7) Dear Mr. Fantacy - The highlight of the night plus we had vocals~! Shane sang and played the first solo, then he did another solo at the end, at the end he nodded to me and I hit my boost pedal and held on tight for 2 or 3 mins. That was the best song we covered the whole night and I'm pretty sure that was the one to smoke em if you got em.
8) 12 bar blues in A - We slowed this one down a bit and played a little bit of rockabilly in it, that was when our friend Don came down and I said we should play an Allman Brothers tune for Don and let him sing.
9) Whippin Post - That was not a good choice of songs for band that didn't know how to play it that was drunk out of their minds. Don did great and the song was ok at points but it fell apart at the end.
10) Stormy Monday - We played a few other things before this but I forgot what it was now. Don sang this one and it was our best blues number of the night. I could have jammed to that one all night long.
11) Gimme Three Steps - I've never played the song before and litterally just stated jamming with them and did my best turned out alright, I had a good solo for it.
12) Don't ask me no questions - Our best Skynyrd song of the night. Don and the guy who had the house sang that one and I knew that song well. It was very close to the orignal except I'm not Steve gains and Shane isn't Gary Rossington, and Chuck.... He's Chuck, lets leave it at that.
13) Cat Scratch Fever - I left after Dont ask me no questions but the rest of these I'm listing are songs we did that I just cant remember where we played them but we did. They weren't the stand out songs.
14) On the hunt - sounded pretty good
All in All a great night of music in front of a few close friend and new friends. We had a ball and if your not in a band or if your not jamming with someone I advise you to find some like minded friends and play your butt off. We started around 5pm and I left at 9:30 it was more fun then any concert I ever went to and this was FREE except for the BEER. Sorry this was so long but this was more for me to remember last night then anything else.
