Calling all Garage Bands

2 years ago by Jeff Woods | March 4, 2010 9:58 am

You have a day job, but for fun, evenings or weekends, get together with a few pals and jam??? Or maybe you know somebody that does?

WE WANT YOU, all amateurs, weekend warriors, basement dwellers, to videotape your home-jams, and post ‘em on Youtube, and give me the link, so I can post ‘em here on the Legends Blog.   Just for fun. 

Please put out the word to your pals who play.  

I’ll remind in few days, when I put up the latest jam from my garage, a Beatles cover, and then as they come, I’ll post your garage band jams.

For now, proving that you don’t have to be a pro  to get involved, my drumming on a One Hit Wonder, with a couple dudes I hang with, Scotty Shennan on guitar/vocals and sometimes dreadlocked Carlo Silano on bass, recorded in the same place I do the Legends shows.

Gracias,

Jeff

 

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  • Lori
    March 4, 2010 at 10:53 am

    Look at you banging away on those skins..how fun!! Wish I had a band to be in. Actually wish I played the drums. Here’s a funny story about my wanting to play the drums. I grew up next door to a man named Henry Adler (you probably know who he was) who I knew was in the music business in NYC but I wasnt sure what he did. At the time I was playing the clarinet in our high school band and taking piano. I really wanted to play the drums but my mother, like most mothers, couldnt stand the noise. Mr Adler died in Sept 2008 and my mother sent me his obit in the mail. Well, I learned from the obit that Henry Adler was a famous drummer and drum teacher who hung with Buddy Rich, Gene Krupa and was the creator of the Adler method of drum instruction. If I had only know then just what a treasure I had living next door to me, I would have insisted that I was going to learn the drums. Could you imagine being taught by Henry Adler to play the drums? Man, I could have achieved my dream of being a rock star. And a female drummer at that. Thanks for sharing the vid and keep banging away.

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  • debbie m/over 25yrlistner
    March 4, 2010 at 11:48 am

    Hi Jeff,
    Yes, saw this already and loved it ..you do suit the drums!
    You guys did a great job
    In the younger days I spent many many evenings watching an ex jam to the point where I could fall asleep ..
    cheers

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  • Matt Hughes
    March 4, 2010 at 12:42 pm

    Here are a few vids from a band I played in a few years back:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCsCSwt03n0

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=152Npu90fxk&feature=related

    Matt

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  • Matt Hughes
    March 4, 2010 at 2:27 pm

    Jeff, I play guitar and sing in that band. Glad you like!

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  • Sean G.
    March 4, 2010 at 2:53 pm

    Two of these guys play Calgary a few times a year for fund raising charities… but they are based out of Ontario.
    The guitarist is Phil X now living in LA. He fronts The Drills and a band named Powder – but is most famous for studio work with Tommy Lee and an assortment of others.

    This was the last jam they pulled off together, last summer.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLG77Ut2oRU
    ZZ Top’s Cheap Sunglasses.

    (I have a Calgary clip as well of the boys, without Phil):
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0KHXrNUPhk
    (They were drinking that night though).

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  • Sean G.
    March 4, 2010 at 2:57 pm

    Here is one more going way back to the late eighties.

    I used to put on a show called LUNARFEST back in Ontario… a varriety of band members would join up to be “A Box of Freaks”… a sort of jam band.

    Here is a sample:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq4tPAZTLKI&feature=PlayList&p=76DAF84E3086AB79&index=2

    (I’m A Man – Chicago)

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  • Emily
    March 4, 2010 at 4:50 pm

    Jeff, you look like you are having a blast & what a workout!
    Love that photo of John above you. I’ve known many drummers, and they all have a different answer as to who the #1 drummer of all time is. Who is your favourite, the greatest drummer?

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  • Johnny A Mac
    March 4, 2010 at 5:02 pm

    One of the first jams of the band that became Everybody Left, sometime in the spring of 2006. Cover of The Band Formerly Known as the Racket’s “Broken Bones” .

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  • marion
    March 4, 2010 at 7:35 pm

    I say that lori’s story…above? It just goes to show ya.
    And I also say harps would be outstanding with that tune…the key of G.

    You guys rawk!!!

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  • Halston!
    March 4, 2010 at 10:03 pm

    Here ye go, brother!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mBSM83IHqM

    Two men, xmas lights and a song.

    Be well!

    -Carlos Halston

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  • Jason
    March 5, 2010 at 3:13 am

    I love this stuff … one thing I hate about jam sessions is when you write the best riff in the world and jam out this epic masterpiece – only to have it disappear again after you run through the full set once and then try to come back to it. Man there were so many times we were going to be famous …. great work on the kit Woodsy

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  • Sean G.
    March 5, 2010 at 2:22 pm

    Re: PHIL X

    Yes, sorry Jeff. Phil is definitely well on his way – but those other fine players with him are still “making it”.

    The first time I saw Phil play an actual show was at our highschool in 1981.
    They charged us $1 to get in.

    He was one long haired wicked guitarist in that day – obviosuly destined for greatness.

    Best part… he is Canadian, and very down to earth to this day.

    You are awesome by the way – thanks for sticking with us out here!!
    High quality shows, excellent knowledge, and a way cool attitude.

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  • wally
    March 17, 2010 at 12:38 pm

    mumblin’ somethin’ was a garage band from high school days, believe it or not the drummer was Neil Peart now of Rush.

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  • Wats
    March 17, 2010 at 7:15 pm

    Spendid,
    gotta love buddies hang’in out jamm’in.
    Impressed with not only the knowledge in that melon of yours but bang’in the stix also. Keep it up buddy, 1 of 2 distinct
    voices that make Q107 a classic.
    Cheers,
    Wat2s

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  • Beth
    March 19, 2010 at 8:41 am

    Hey Jeff,

    When are you putting up that Beatles tune you promised? I’m eager to see it. :)

    While your at it why not throw up your favourite of the links sent in?

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