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  • TJ's Acoustic Music Club - open mic night - Thursday 30th

Venue: Press Club Bar, Marks Park, Judith road, Emmarentia, Johannesburg

Date: Thursday August 30th
Time: First act on at 20:00

Admission: R25 (playing or not)

Lots of parking. Pub grub available. Bar service. TJs provide mics and PA.

I'll be there - though not necessarily playing.
    stu and I reckon we'll try making a plan to come play a couple of numbers, but considering I can't sing it'll be a duo...
      Good stuff! I might even play a few songs as well, if there's a gap. Winter nights are usually a bit quieter in terms of attendance, good for any first-timers.
        Nobody else coming along tonight?
          I'll probably be there, maybe Leftout, and Camba as well,
          coming to support the GFSA'ers as well as some mates that also want to perform,
          and of course to support my beer drinking habit,, ?
          :goodtimes:
            A good turn out, in terms of both players and audience. Even material. Stu and Vellaj did some very contemporary rock and got a well deserved round of applause. The act before them had done some classic rock radio fare (Rodriguez, Simon & Garfunkel) before going back in time to the 1940s, the Ink Spots and "Java Jive". I included a song by... well I don't know who wrote it, I suspect it's a Victorian music hall number, I know that Julie Andrews recorded it in the 50s and I heard it via Martin Carthy. A helpful gent in the audience suggested that Stanley Holloway had written it. I must do more research, but main thing is that the audience had the usual TJs "big ears", which I think is one of the club's greatest strengths.
              good variety there last night,
              Bob, you have one sweet sounding Larrivee there, :yup:
                CostaFonix wrote: good variety there ast night,
                Bob, you have one sweet sounding Larrivee there, :yup:
                Thanks. It's got an LR Baggs "Dual Source" in it - UST and internal mic. IMO the mic gives a more natural sound, a little more "air".

                I got the same system in my Morgan.
                  Nice turnout last night, had a good time.
                  Will post some pics over the weekend
                  (maybe I'll also have to change my username tp 'paparazzi') ?

                  posting pics in two batches
                    Second lot

                    Bob, you really should watch out for those faces you make :-[ ?







                      Nice pics Camba!
                      Pity XRB and Mau missed my song which featured them!
                        Looks great. I really need to make a plan to free up some of my Thursdays so I can get out there more often. I feel like I miss out every time I don't make it.

                        Who are these guys?
                        camba wrote:
                        Oh, and epic face there Bob! ? Looks like an interesting application of capos. Would have liked to see this.
                        camba wrote:
                          Thanks Bill, my pleasure,

                          you surprised me with your song about the merc in the Katanga with his Thompson.

                          Can still recall, as a kid, seeing the Tommies (British soldiers) with helmets, sten guns and khaki puttees, helping to transport the refugees across the Congo/NR border in trucks, and all the barbed wire laid out in the streets, such things remain with you.
                            deefstes wrote: Oh, and epic face there Bob! ? Looks like an interesting application of capos. Would have liked to see this.
                            camba wrote:
                            The one nearest the headstock is a regular capo, at the 2nd fret going across all 6 strings. The brass capo is at the 4th fret and is a Shubb partial capo and depresses FIVE strings. The guitar is in regular tuning for that number.

                            This partial capo, fitted so as to cover string 1-5, and with a regular capo at the 2nd fret creates an effect similar (but not identical) to drop D tuning - though the open 6th and 4th are now both at F#. So when I play a D shape (which is now F#) I have a nice bass note on the 6th string.

                            BUT remember the guitar is not in a slack key tuning. So the moment I fret the 6th string everything behaves as if the guitar is still in regular tuning. So I can play a regular G shape (now B because I'm effectively capoed at 4th fret) and still use all the little fills you get with that shape. I have access to barre chords as if the guitar is regularly tuned

                            It's ALMOST the best of both words. I say "ALMOST" because you can't play the regular E and Em shapes unless you can find a way to fret the 6th string in line with the partial capo.
                              X-rated Bob wrote:
                              camba wrote:
                              Stu and Vellaj.
                              Yeah, I recognised them but who are those other two guys, one of whom is playing a Breedlove? The other one looks like it might be a Taylor.
                                camba wrote:

                                Looks a lot like my Takamine?
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