Lot's of Denver harp players haunt this forum, so...
Tonight I plan to have my beast Bassman amp and the new Mission Delta Sonic amp on stage for players to use. Hope you can come and play!
The Mile High Blues Society and Ziggies team up to host the baddest blue jam in town every Sunday. The jammage begins at 7pm when The Blues Allstars take the stage. Bring yer axe 'n' Let's Boogie!
Bad Brad Stivers leads the Blues Allstars, with Mac McMurray on bass and Bruce Collins on drums. Rick Davis on harp, with special guest Nic Clark.
For nearly four decades the Sunday Jams at Ziggies have been the heart of Denver's blues scene. All blues players are welcome! Working pros come to try out new chops and hook up with friends. New players come to pick up riffs, style, and attitude. Lot's of blues fans come for the great music and to be part of the the blues brotherhood.
Doors at 6pm, music at 7pm. Come early to get signed up. We provide the backline (drum kit, bass amp, guitar amp, etc) and you provide the badass boogie.
Very cool jam! A member of this forum showed up with his big Meteor amp. Nic Clark took delivery of his new 3x10 Mission amp and it killed right out of the box.
This is kind of cool. Nic's new custom amp was finished about an hour before the jam, and had never been tested by a harp player. This was the first try, and Bruce Collins -- the amp builder -- was nervous. Nic spent a few seconds with the amp settings and then played this song. Not bad.
The amp is a 44-watt Mission Chicago with three 10-inch speakers. The speakers sound a bit stiff and need breaking in. They are two Eminence Lil Buddys on the bottom and a Jensen P10Q smooth cone on the top.
The amp will go back to the shop for a final tune up before Nic plays a set with his band at the Greeley Blues Jam, a big blues festival in northern Colorado this weekend.
The amp sounded big; as big as my Bassman. It uses the paraphase inverter that Bruce modeled after the circuit in the Masco ME-18 amp. When it all gets dialed in that gives it the signature colorful crunch tone. Not quite there yet.
In this set Nic is playing with some jammers, not the host band, and as you can hear they are not tight. That's the way it sometimes goes at a blues jam...
Thanks for hosting , Rick. Thanks, too, to Tweedaddict who sold me the Meteor. Hope I can do it justice once I learn to dial it in better and sharpen my chops now that I can hear myself.
Nic's a tough act to precede or follow. You're a journeyman player yourself and your amp demos don't do your playing justice. We've got to get some clips of you here. :)
PeterG, -- "journeyman player" -- I like that a lot. I am a blue collar player, certainly not a master craftsman like Nic and several of the regulars here. I work hard at it and I do what I do. Thanks for the nice compliment!
Glad you are digging the meteor Peter. Try a good jt-30 with it. And/or an EV 638... To my ears they both sound super through it... Lotsa fun that amp. Cheers. MikeG
