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From: midnig~acline.co.uk (David Michelsen)
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 96 14:12:25 BST
Subject: Newbi on Mic

Steve Jennings talks about the jam at the prince of wales, at which his
band are the host musicans. I share the duties of getting folk up. Like any
other jam sessions we have a rare old mix of shit and sugar. Because Both
Steve & I are very able players our main problem was in getting harp
players who were less good up. The jam continues to get more than it's fair
share of good musicans, I alow folk to say who they would prefer to go up
with and most folk get no more than 3 songs, though if we have a real
quality player and the list isn't packed too tight they may get 5 numbers.
All of the players who come to our jam are very suportive and if
some one has sung badly out of tune then they are quite lightly to get a
number of offers of help with that problem area, rather than just being
dammed as being no good.
It took quite some coaxing to get some of the less experenced
players up to give it a go. It is not at all unusall to find Steve or me
giving them tips on riffs, positions and when to leave spaces.
There used to be any number of venues where a newbi could cut thier
first playing teath but now with harder times and the TV offering so many
alterntives the number of venues where live music is performed has been cut
radically. So now it is only at the relitivly few jam sessions that a newbi
can start to get those "on stage comunication skills".
Luckly we don't seem to get those players who think that the sun
shines out of their fundiment, whilst in truth they play like what does
come out of their fundiment. Even if we did get players like that they
would soon get the message as no one would elect to play with them.
We all had to start somewhere and I get the impression that some
of us forget that we too had to start somewhere and like as not we didn't
sound that good.
All it takes is a word in the ear, from who ever is acting as stage
manager, to make the evening go well with no one overstaying their welcome
on stage. It helps to mix the more expearenced acts in the biginers, that
way you don't have an untutored noise going on for too long.-David

Dr Midnight AKA David Michelsen, 6a Plesant Row, Woodford, N'hants,NN14
4HP, England. Phone or Fax 01832 735860