Jam Session

Last night, we got together with two other families for dinner and then the three men had a jam session. The hosts have a nice little music room with several guitars (acoustic and electric), a keyboard, a mandolin, a ukelele, and a couple of drums. We, the guests, brought our guitars too, so we had a TON of instruments.

We played several songs and improvised quite a bit. I had so much fun making music with those guys. They're both a lot of fun to talk to, which made it so much more enjoyable. We sang 'Lean on Me', 'California Dreamin', 'Hotel California', 'Country Roads', 'Candle in the Wind', 'Blue Suede Shoes', and a bunch of others. We pulled from several different time periods and genres and even changed the style of some of the songs as we went along. Successive sounds came from the keyboard including organ, harpsichord, and something that sounded sort of like bubbles popping. It was so fun!

I can't really describe how much fun I had, but I LOVE making music and the chance to make music with such great people was fantastic. It was also fun trying to keep up on a couple of songs that I didn't know.

I think we played for about 1.5 hours and I would have loved to play longer, but we had our kids with us and I wanted to get them to bed. We had so much fun that we're hoping to do it again, maybe once a month or so. One of these times we'll do it without the kids and maybe we'll end up playing even longer.