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Title: Had a fantastic jam yesterday
Post by: Johnny Mac on June 22, 2009, 01:57:50 PM
Me and another guitarist/singer, a sax player, a great drummer and bass player. Its such a good buzz when it all works well. I lent the other guitar player my strat with Irish Tours and he was very impressed with the sounds he was getting. I played my Feline Lion through a Telenordia compressor into my Koch clean or with a little gain for some leads.
Title: Re: Had a fantastic jam yesterday
Post by: 38thBeatle on June 22, 2009, 08:01:29 PM
Cool, do you think a band might form Johnny?
Title: Re: Had a fantastic jam yesterday
Post by: Denim n Leather on June 22, 2009, 08:10:08 PM
Awesome!

Tell me more about that compressor! Did you use it for clean tone only?
Title: Re: Had a fantastic jam yesterday
Post by: AndyR on June 23, 2009, 08:50:55 AM
Nice one, glad to hear it's getting going :D
Title: Re: Had a fantastic jam yesterday
Post by: Afghan Dave on June 23, 2009, 09:04:25 AM
Are you mainly keeping your Koch clean playing with these guys?

You could try plugging through a small dirtbox first like a tubescreamer it things are feeling too loose.
Title: Re: Had a fantastic jam yesterday
Post by: MrBump on June 23, 2009, 12:38:22 PM
Are you mainly keeping your Koch clean playing with these guys?

You could try plugging through a small dirtbox first like a tubescreamer it things are feeling too loose.

NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Had a fantastic jam yesterday
Post by: Johnny Mac on June 23, 2009, 02:32:20 PM
It's a bit early to say Steve but we all really enjoyed it and are keen to jam again. We all have different tastes in music but are just playing for the sake of playing. It all seems open minded for ideas so a few rock tunes may come too. The other guitarist/singer does some kind of musical teaching for work and did a great job of arranging. He had a few lyrics and chords for a few songs that we worked on.
Then we did a huge jam around James Brown's The Chicken which was fun.
Yes Ben I used the compressor on clean and dialed a funky sounding clean tone in with the mids backed off, used the neck pickup mostly. I kept the compressor on for a few leads with a small amount of gain.


No dirtbox needed Dave as my Koch is filthy enough as it is!  :lol:
Title: Re: Had a fantastic jam yesterday
Post by: _tom_ on June 23, 2009, 02:34:08 PM
A Johnny Mac thread is not complete without Koch jokes and other such smut :lol:
Title: Re: Had a fantastic jam yesterday
Post by: Johnny Mac on June 23, 2009, 02:36:31 PM
A Johnny Mac thread is not complete without Koch jokes and other such smut :lol:

Dave started that one Tom!  :lol:
Title: Re: Had a fantastic jam yesterday
Post by: 38thBeatle on June 23, 2009, 07:30:48 PM
Yeah he was probably thinking about Vince.
Title: Re: Had a fantastic jam yesterday
Post by: Johnny Mac on September 15, 2009, 08:55:09 AM
This project is still going each week. We've been rehearsing 4 hours a weeks since June and its tight as a Nuns arse now! Its a mixture of some of the singers own tunes which are pretty good and some old funk tunes at the moment. I've been using my Midi guitar in some parts putting a rich Hammond organ under some of the guitars and Sax. Plus a Sitar sound on another! Mostly just putting lots of clean funky chords sometimes hitting the wah for a few bars, then letting rip with some solos. The rest of the band are really good musicians. I'm loving it so much!
Title: Re: Had a fantastic jam yesterday
Post by: AndyR on September 15, 2009, 09:28:09 AM
This project is still going each week. We've been rehearsing 4 hours a weeks since June and its tight as a Nuns arse now! Its a mixture of some of the singers own tunes which are pretty good and some old funk tunes at the moment. I've been using my Midi guitar in some parts putting a rich Hammond organ under some of the guitars and Sax. Plus a Sitar sound on another! Mostly just putting lots of clean funky chords sometimes hitting the wah for a few bars, then letting rip with some solos. The rest of the band are really good musicians. I'm loving it so much!

Nice one Johnny - I was wondering what had happened to you the other day - and then suddenly you started posting again... really glad to hear it's going well :D
Title: Re: Had a fantastic jam yesterday
Post by: Johnny Mac on September 15, 2009, 10:14:22 AM
This project is still going each week. We've been rehearsing 4 hours a weeks since June and its tight as a Nuns arse now! Its a mixture of some of the singers own tunes which are pretty good and some old funk tunes at the moment. I've been using my Midi guitar in some parts putting a rich Hammond organ under some of the guitars and Sax. Plus a Sitar sound on another! Mostly just putting lots of clean funky chords sometimes hitting the wah for a few bars, then letting rip with some solos. The rest of the band are really good musicians. I'm loving it so much!

Nice one Johnny - I was wondering what had happened to you the other day - and then suddenly you started posting again... really glad to hear it's going well :D

Not been on too much lately. My laptops giving me jip, a hal.dll file is missing what ever that is when its at home! Plus the Desktop was playing up. I've been lurking though  :)
Title: Re: Had a fantastic jam yesterday
Post by: 38thBeatle on September 15, 2009, 07:45:09 PM
Hey Johnny I am really chuffed for you getting a band together. I too have missed your posts.
Title: Re: Had a fantastic jam yesterday
Post by: Spitfire on September 16, 2009, 10:39:41 PM
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Title: Re: Had a fantastic jam yesterday
Post by: Philly Q on September 16, 2009, 10:43:18 PM
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Urgh, what's the use of jam with no bits?  :x

I'm sure Johnny's jam is far superior.  Although I do have reservations about sax players.
Title: Re: Had a fantastic jam yesterday
Post by: Ian Price on September 16, 2009, 10:49:27 PM
This is the jam I use - it's great:

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Title: Re: Had a fantastic jam yesterday
Post by: CaptainDesslock on September 16, 2009, 10:50:37 PM
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Urgh, what's the use of jam with no bits?  :x

I'm sure Johnny's jam is far superior.  Although I do have reservations about sax players.

same here about that sax players.......what are you gonna if he makes you play pwopa jazz? Jazz guitarists are crazy fiends, i cannot even begin to comprehend their ways!
Title: Re: Had a fantastic jam yesterday
Post by: Ian Price on September 16, 2009, 11:03:16 PM
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Urgh, what's the use of jam with no bits?  :x

I'm sure Johnny's jam is far superior.  Although I do have reservations about sax players.

I know the basics range is all based on being cheap but cheerful but I really don't understand how they can put "lss fruit" on as a selling point! It's JAM!!!!!

Back on thread - I really need to get jamming more regularly to keep my licks in shape.
Title: Re: Had a fantastic jam yesterday
Post by: FernandoDuarte on September 16, 2009, 11:04:54 PM
Although I do have reservations about sax players.

I love sax, trumpet, etc :o
Like the ones on Amy Winehouse! That's so cool
Title: Re: Had a fantastic jam yesterday
Post by: Spitfire on September 17, 2009, 08:44:27 AM
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Urgh, what's the use of jam with no bits?  :x

I'm sure Johnny's jam is far superior.  Although I do have reservations about sax players.

I know the basics range is all based on being cheap but cheerful but I really don't understand how they can put "lss fruit" on as a selling point! It's JAM!!!!!

Back on thread - I really need to get jamming more regularly to keep my licks in shape.

Less Fruit.. spreads more easily, those optimistic folks at sainsburys, always looking on the bright side.