our jam last night

John Roche · Post by **John Roche** » 9 Oct 2008 11:29 am

I sat in on a jam last night , just a bit of fun for us old guys, but we had a girl fiddle player turn up , have a look she is very good...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JFIX-BdW7A&fmt=18
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ1JI1pdE5A&fmt=18

James Kerr · Post by **James Kerr** » 9 Oct 2008 3:20 pm

John,
We need more of you on here to keep our side of the pond up, where are all the recordings, I found two with your name on them from Frank Ifield days, on You Tube.

James.

Bent Romnes · Post by **Bent Romnes** » 9 Oct 2008 3:38 pm

John, that was great. The Sierra came thru nice and clear. I'll second James..we need more of you man.
Bent

Jim Wilson · Post by **Jim Wilson** » 9 Oct 2008 5:03 pm

John, Real nice job the Steel comes through nice and clear, Hard to do at some Jams i have been to, you do a nice job playing. Jim W

Robbie Crabtree · Post by **Robbie Crabtree** » 9 Oct 2008 8:19 pm

She is good and so are You, Good job

John Roche · Post by **John Roche** » 10 Oct 2008 3:04 am

Thanks for all the nice comments,
James, look me up under " derfdv " on youtube.
Bent, the sound on the Sierra is very clear, but at the end of the night I found that the pickup was not seated correctly , as you know the pickup can be removed by sliding it out, I had removed it to show the fiddle player and did not replaced it all the way in making the sound a little thin.
The fiddle player name is Julie Clements. If you look up Backporchpicker on you tube you will find a lot more of her.
At this jam we are not told the name of the song before we play it , the singer just says "G chord walking bass" and off we go..keep us on our toes.. thanks John

Ken Byng · Post by **Ken Byng** » 10 Oct 2008 6:33 am

Nice one John. She is much better looking than our fiddle player and plays in tune (ouch!).

You must have been with Robbo for quite a few years now.

John Roche · Post by **John Roche** » 10 Oct 2008 7:21 am

Ken, I have been working with Robbo on and off since 1978, as I have only came back from Spain for a few months I have not played with him for about 10 years,
Julie Clements is quite a player , there are a lot of her playing up on youtube.
As for my playing it is getting harder , I suffer from a lot of pain from my neck down both my arms with loss of feeling in my left hand..
I still love doing the jam session every week..
Here is a link to one of Julie's videos.. she is sitting with the band ..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPHr8qSFFGQ

John Roche · Post by **John Roche** » 12 Oct 2008 3:02 am

I found another from the same night, Crazy, Not a song I played before..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ1JI1pdE5A&fmt=18

Brian Kurlychek · Post by **Brian Kurlychek** » 12 Oct 2008 6:44 am

Something I have never been able to figure out. When you guys talk, its with the english accent(for lack of a better term) But then as soon as you sing, no accent?

James Kerr · Post by **James Kerr** » 12 Oct 2008 11:54 am

Try this for size then :-

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=O3tNylJr7Z4

James Kerr.

Jim Eller · Post by **Jim Eller** » 12 Oct 2008 12:00 pm

John,

Nice. Thanks for posting.

Thanks again for all the work you did for me.

Jim Eller

Brian Kurlychek · Post by **Brian Kurlychek** » 12 Oct 2008 5:53 pm

James Kerr wrote:Try this for size then :-

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=O3tNylJr7Z4

James Kerr.

I see.

John Roche · Post by **John Roche** » 13 Oct 2008 3:39 am

Jim, thanks. sorry I'vnot been in touch for a while but with moving back to the UK for while and sorting things here we have been quite busy...John

John Roche · Post by **John Roche** » 22 Oct 2008 6:11 pm

Brian, it's very hard to explain why us english talk with british accent and sing with an USA accent, maybe it's because we listen to country music from the states,
as country music is more lightly to come from the USA then we pick up the accent from the songs
it would not sound right to sing a country with a cockney accent...