What it is really like to open up a jam

Ok, let me set the stage.

Any Wednesday night at the Tin Star. Sometime after 9:00pm. Not all the musicians have showed up yet. The good news is that it looks like all the important parts might be covered. We have a drummer. We have a bass. We have a, ... you know ... , a guitar player who knows his way around the E-String.

It's now twenty past nine. The bar owner is getting a bit concerned. Why hasn't the jam started yet?!!

The jam master tallies up what he's got to start.

The bar is only about half full. Who is here who can play? Count them up:

Drummer.
Bass.
Guitar. Two of them! Another one just walked in!
Horn!

Let's go: we're up. Here's what gets recorded as these five guys hit it, in the key of E.

Come by the Tin Star any Wednesday. Only the names change.

--Doug