I'm not seeing the need for the tool kit....maybe just one small phillips head. ---------- Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. - Charlie Parker
Thanks Todd !! ---------- Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. - Charlie Parker
@Bluzdude46- I can probably drive to Baltimore,although you're coming my way and we might hook up closer to my way. And I can drive stick! Contact me off post and we'll hash it out.
ok welli think im going to fly to memphis then rent a car there. is any one else going to memphis an would like to meet up an split the price of a car??? ----------
1) Running totals are 47 people for May 22-23 and 40 for May 29-30. Since Jason's manager has already penciled in the earlier weekend--hoping, for good reason, to hold the later weekend for possible festival gigs and the like--it seems extremely likely that the earlier weekend is the date
2) I spoke with Kevin Moore, Mr. Satan's official "roadie" down in Florida. Although he believes that it is very likely that Sterling will be able to come up (and thus that Satan & Adam will be able to play), that is NOT yet confirmed. Since I consider the presence of Satan & Adam, all three of us (w/Dave on Drums), absolutely crucial to the success of this event, there remains a big "if" in this whole enterprise.
3) Brandon Bailey gave me his commitment some time ago, so he's part of this for sure.
4) I spoke to Terry "Harmonica" Bean about the weekend in general terms about two months ago, but I have not confirmed his appearance yet or negotiated his fee
5) I have a phone number for Eric Deaton; I have not yet spoken to him about all this. He would be an excellent guy to back up Jason
6) ....but I'm also exploring the possibility of substituting Bill "Howl-n-Madd" Perry and his band for Eric Deaton. Perry is an incredible blues musician from the north Mississippi hill country. Here's a video of him playing solo that gives you some idea of what he's about:
7) Foxfire Ranch is available, affordable, and the owner, Bill Hollowell, is totally game.
The point of this advisory is two-fold:
1) The basic threshold of interest in the event has clearly been met. You guys are interested, and May 22-23 works for enough of you. Barring completely unexpected developments, that's going to be the date;
and
2) Now that I know there's enough up-front interest for this thing to fly, I'm beginning, or deepening, negotiations with the people who need to come together on the supply-side of the equation.
I will certainly keep you posted. But that's where we are right now. It would be a very bad idea for anybody to make firm plans to come down here on Memorial Day weekend. But right now isn't the time for anybody to make FIRM plans for that earlier weekend, either. Just make contingency plans. I'll let everybody know with a big loud Hell Yeah!! when we're good to go.
1) Four or five people have asked about whether they might bring a non-harmonica-playing GF, or SO, or friend. The answer is yes. Since the event is partly about clinics and partly about live music of the concert variety, we will be charging non-playing adjuncts some fee, but certainly not full price. My basic feeling right now is that if the event runs for $125-150, we will add a $50 fee for that second non-playing person. Something like that. Just so you know.
2) If we've already got strong interest from 47 people--which is actually more people than that since people who said they had a 75% chance of coming on a given weekend were counted as .75, not 1--and Jason and I haven't even begun to promote this thing via YouTube and other methods, then the event just might turn out to be a heck of a lot of fun. 100 people? I know that Foxfire's gazebo is spacious enough to handle that many, even on a rainy day, but we'll make sure of that.
The weather in north Mississippi in late-ish May is fantastic, for the most part.
Tuckster: If you and or bluzdude are coming thru central Ohio, I would carpool and share expenses. Based on size of vehicle we could pick up Phogi in Louisville. I just got back yesterday from Austin Texas. I sat in with Jimi lee for 2 nights. How much fun was that!! Now I need to watch my dollars, so carpool sounds great. I can take as much time as anyone needs, either weekend. And I Thank You K.C.
Hey Adam! I'm desperately sad I couldn't be there but I'm soaking up all the excitement and anticipation from all the posts here. You lucky people.
I'd like to participate though by offering to provide any graphics/artwork which you may want for promoting your shindig on the web or YouTube. I'm thinking in terms of the graphics I created for HPC3. I'm open to ideas and can let you know whether I can do justice to any suggestions you may have. ----------
ok mick, we will talk when the date gets closer so hopefully we will arrive at similar times.
adam i have a concern. you said in an earlier post that the instructors will be telling individual people what to do an what they need to work on etc... is this going to be possible with 100 people there? is every instructor going to deal with every student also? cause what if some one wants lessons or advise from certain instructors but only gets 1 of them? or none. iv never been to anything like this other then your last clinic but 100 people really seems like allot to me, an i picture this like hords of people gathering around the instructors an people like me in the back not being able to get any time in. can you provide some insight as to what kind of structure you will have? ----------
@jon: I can't specify anything more until a) Satan and Adam and other participants are confirmed; and b) Jason and I have had a think the entire event through.
We're not even at save-the-date time, much less a formal offering. Your question is quite reasonable and we'll certainly take it into account as we move forward. All will be clarified in good time.
One of my models, strange as it sounds is the sort of teaching weekends that I've gone to at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY. You sit in a room with a hundred other people and a wise person talks. You raise your hands and ask questions at appropriate moments. The difference in such a context between 50 and 100 people is relatively meaningless. And of course the difference between "Miracles and Forgiveness: A Weekend with Marianne Williamson," and Hill Country harmonica is....well, we'll be much louder, drink much more, be much sloppier, won't eat sprouts or tofu, won't drink green tea, and will cultivate madness and grievances, along with miracles and forgiveness. Plus there will be chances to jam, both on stage and informally, and there will be evening concerts that don't involve the Hare Krishna. Free love, too, for some of y'all, if the girls show up.
Actually, don't expect THAT sort of miracle.
But no: for the relatively modest price we're going to be asking, we're obviously not going to be able to give the level of one-on-one service that Jon Gindick gives in his five-day, $1000 jam camps. And that's as it should be. We're not competing with Jon. We're looking to do something different: shorter, perhaps more intense, with significantly more in the way of live music NOT performed by attendees: i.e., concerts. Jon specifically instructs his jam camp coaches that the camp is NOT about them. In Barrett's masterclass, it's the other way around. We're looking for a middle ground.
To be continued.
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One of THE primary goals of the whole thing, I should say, was to create an event at which the whole thing Jason and I have been doing--YouTube madness, this website and its many students and its forum--could, for one charmed weekend, blossom into an actual, on-the-ground community.
