DeaconBlues improv jam...

[Blindboy]

During the usual milling around between songs, the other night, Deaconblues started a rhythm riff (I think it was based on a Floyd thing), then the drummer and bass player picked up on it (the bass player was doing a SRV thing), then the keyboard player and I came in. I never did figure out what the actual rhythm was, but it was a fun jam, as we just rode it where it wanted to go.
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It takes us a few minutes to gel, but we do get rolling after a bit.

[DeaconBlues]

"I never did figure out what the actual rhythm was, but it was a fun jam, as we just rode it where it wanted to go."

It certainly wasn't for a lack of trying. You did a good job of holding on for the ride. You had some serious jazz going on there at one point.

It certainly is a lot more bumpy than I remembered it. Wouldn't sound too bad(better anyway), if the first half was just edited out. The drummer and bass player had been subjected to that riff once before, but with some "practice" we as a group might tighten that up and work it into something...someday.

[MikeJackal]

Pretty funky stuff guys, so funky in fact i had to join in myself. I think your right about the riff sounds quite like "Money" at the start.
And no i wouldn't edit out anything, the whole thing builds nicely and sounds so real that you wouldn't get it if you didn't hear the whole thing.

[VikingBlues]

It does build well - organically. You've got to have the whole thing to make sense of its roots. And if you let it loop the beginning follows the end with perfect logic, like you've come round a full circle. And funky - yes indeed.

Blues with a jazzier edge - me likes 'dat - and me likes 'dis performance - a lot.

[2WheelsOfBlues]

The most world hits are born like this.........

It's funny to hear how a song is coming to live, and i think, no i'm sure it's a good song to remember.

[DeaconBlues]

Thanks, guys. It's something I think we can develop as a group. L77S, I'd like to hear your contribution to this tune.

I've always been a big instrumental music fan. Going back to the days of "Rumble", "Tel Star", "Green Onions", and "Albatross". I like a good groove. Floyd's "Money" would have been a great tune even without the lyrics, IMHO.

[HalfBlindLefty]

Darn boy, you guys have made my (string) trigger fingers itch......
Money as a Jam..... Sweet. Hate the original, but this is way... waaaay better.

[Bluez2move]

Nice organic improv fellas

had a pseudo-Jazz feel, nice

[Blindboy]

Thanks guys... glad you liked it. Maybe we can do something with it. I expect that something else will come up and distract us though... With an open jam situation, with few actual singers, we tend to do a lot of instrumental jams.

[LzyBlue]

Nicely done. I too liked the build up.....nice at first....then started tapping my foot.....then keeping rhythm with my hands....then rocking in my chair... !!

Nice jam.....!@!!