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With a myriad of jams and live music venues out there these days, it can sometimes be hard to decide just where to go to get your weekly “fix” of music. I aim to either help this, or make it worse. I have a few places that I go to frequently, which will probably end up being a regular feature here, but there are a few places that I go, where I get to hear bands that don’t go to my regular haunts, and I want to make sure that they are covered as well.
The format will not be very structured at first, at least by my standards, but I will eventually come up with a review method that I like and will probably evolve into a standard format. I’ll not only discuss the band whom I’m listening to, but also the venue, the people, and probably the most important part (to me), the jams that inevitably break-out around the hallways and openings of the various places.
I’m hoping to not only express my feelings of what is going on, but to give a full picture of the overall feel and what is happening at each of the places I visit. Many of these places don’t have a web presence, and may not ever, so I hope I can do them justice here with this format. I subscribe to the phrase that pictures are worth 1000 words, and I will post pictures as I can remember to take them, but I rarely think about taking pictures when I’m knee-deep in a Bluegrass jam.
I’ll say now that I’m not going to be objective about some things. I have a very rigid structure in my mind about good music, and if things don’t fall into that structure, I’m going to speak my mind. This may make some folks mad, in fact, I hope it does. I don’t want ill feelings, but if someone is doing something that they shouldn’t I feel someone should let them know how bad it sounds so they can decide whether to continue or not. I think I should also say that I am not a standard audience either. I have had 20 years of musical training and experience, so I’m not going to be hearing things from a layman’s ear. I will hear certain intricacies that a general listener will not hear, and I hate that to an extent, but it’s the way things are, and I’m not going to apologize for it.
So here’s to hoping for a steady blog topic, and many, many opportunities from such. I’ll post my first review/comment blog later today or tomorrow, after my weekly visit to the Oolenoy schoolhouse jam (Pumpkintown, SC).