Got another invite

June 19:

Hello, all,
At the Wednesday night jam there was a musician that leads a jam session in a pirate ship. That's right, a pirate ship. If you've spent any time around the old Greenbrae Shopping Center in Sparks, you've probably notice (or even gone into) a restaurant shaped like a pirate ship. When first built it was a Long John Silver's type of food joint; fried fish, hush-puppies, etc.. When they closed it re-opened with Oriental food and the motif was a "Junk" boat, as you may have seen on waterways in the East.
It's changed hands a couple of times over the years, but now its theme is full-on pirate and on Sundays they have live music. This music is, of course, provided for free by the musicians participating in a (not really) impromptu jam session. Well, Steve asked me to please come by and sit in with them. "We really NEED a bass player over there!", he said.
Needless to say, I jumped at the chance to play out once more this week. Especially since Larry (Dave's Garage) has a split finger and can't play tonight. But, what I'm really looking forward to is the smoke-free jam space! So many venues are in bars and if they're the least bit popular the place just gets so hazy. I always have to shower when I come home from the Sidelines jams... blech!


PS
If you love live music, now is the time to see it. With the economy in the ruts there are LOTS of musicians out of work and willing to play at "open mics" and public jams. Check your local paper or, if you have one, the non-mainstream paper which should have plenty of entries these days.


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