"BAND IN THE POCKET!"
SEND IN THE JAMS SHOWCASE!
We want to put you in the
spotlight!
(See updates below for the latest news
on our distinguished panel!)
Click here to see the entries of
OUR SHOWCASE
Here's the deal:
We get a lot of hits on this site every day and get a lot of traffic on this page. We think it is a great place to showcase your playing and check out what others are doing. We are very happy to also post as much or as little about you as you like. If you are interested in hooking up with other players, we will help in any way we can.
In addition, when we used this forum as a "contest" we recruited some distinguished players and producers as judges. They have agreed to continue as panelists to check in and listen and comment from time to time on what they see here. Like me, they love seeing what others are doing.
We'd like to hear from you! Please contact us with any suggestions and feedback you may want to contribute!
SEND IN YOUR JAMS! No matter what level player you are, from beginner to professional, no matter what instrument you play, be it guitar, keyboards, harmonica, saxophone, flute, kazoo, comb and tissue paper, you name it, you are invited! We want you to pick your favorite track on your favorite "Band In The Pocket!" CD, work out your best licks, and record it. It doesn't have to be done in a studio, but it does need to be decent quality. (If it sounds good to you, it will probably work. If it sounds like air coming out of a tire set to music, it probably won't work!) If you have a cassette recorder that makes good recordings, that should do it. If you have any nifty recording software and can make a CD, that's even better! However you can work it out, send us the best copy that you can manage.
We will publish your tracks here and you can let all your friends come listen to it. If you like, we'll publish your photo and tell a bit about you. Others are also always interested in what your equipment consists of and what kind of guitars or other instruments you play.
We also hope to link with some other showcase sights. Meanwhile, our distinguished panel will continue to check in from time to time and listen to what everyone is doing.
But get us your tapes, MP-3s, CDs, Windows Media files, Real Audio...whatever you can get together.
SPECIAL NOTICE TO HARMONICA AND BLUES HARP
PLAYERS!
We already have a couple of entries for
Harmonica/Blues Harp, and will undoubtedly get more now that we have added
Mr. Tulsa Read, a national champ himself, to our fine panel! Tell your
friends who play harmonica to send in entries as well! We all want to
hear what everyone else is doing!
NEW DRUMMER'S CATEGORY!
If you have looked at our Showcase Entries page, you already know
we have a Drummers category now! We encourage more drummers to send us
your tracks!
NEW KEYBOARDS PLAYERS CATEGORY!
We have always wanted tracks from keyboard players,
and are happy to now have a keyboard category started!
Mail tapes or CDs or Mini-disks to:
Five Feathers Music
2935 Wendy Lane
Marietta, GA 30062
You can e-mail your MP-3s, Real Audio samples, Windows Media, etc. as attachments to marvin@fivefeathers.com .
We'll be warming up the spotlight for you!
Some members of our panel ....
Jeff
Carlisi
38 Special and
Big People
Founder of Camp Jam Atlanta
Jeff's tasteful riffs have been
the crowning touch of so many wonderful hit records. Marvin recalls
doing sessions with Jeff where the producer would say "Jeff, just do that
low string thing you do" and Jeff would smile and play this two note pedal
part that moves under the track, creating an amazing musical tension that
showed you immediately just exactly why so many of those songs were such
magical hits! Add to that his great talent for songwriting and
you can see why we are so honored to have him aboard! A search of the
Internet will lead you to many articles about this great guitarist. CHECK
OUT Jeff's CAMP JAM ATLANTA!
http://www.campjamatlanta.com/ (If you click this link, be sure to use
your browser's "back" button to return to this page!)
Bryan Cole
Drummer Bryan Cole did his first recording session at the age of 15. He was an original member of southern rock band Mose Jones, which recorded two albums produced by Al Kooper for MCA Records in the 1970s. In the early 1980s, he toured extensively as the drummer for legendary fiddler Vassar Clements, then settled in to work as a staff writer and studio drummer for Tree Publishing in Nashville. Returning to Atlanta in the late '80s, Cole served a 12-year stint at Ichiban Records as staff producer, as well as director of music publishing and licensing. A founding member of CMO Studios in Atlanta, Bryan has now taken a much more personal direction as an independent producer. His discography is so tremendous that we can't begin to print it.
Bryan and Marvin and other talented musicians and songwriters are now working together in The Wednesday Music Group, a songwriter's co-op! For more details, go to http://www.fivefeathers.com/songwritingpage.htm
Anthony Papamichael
New York's loss is Atlanta's gain! Anthony is one of the privileged few to have studied with jazz immortal Joe Pass. He is the former co-owner and chief engineer of Libra Digital Recording in NYC, and was one of the first to master the famous Synclavier technology. An amazingly prolific and accomplished writer/composer/producer, Anthony is also a world class guitarist, blending mind numbing speed with heartfelt simplicity. He is simply one of the very best!
Click HERE to listen to "Damn Yankee" from Anthony's CD "Defend The Orphan". Marvin says, "Fasten your seatbelt if you've never heard Anthony play! I'm never sure if he inspires me to practice harder or quit and go into sales! Of all the cuts on all his CDs, I honestly think this is still my favorite." (Note: the drummer on this cut, Sean O'Rourke, plays in "The Monday Night Band" with Marvin.)
Tulsa Read
Tulsa Read is the director of the Kansas City Metro Harmonica Society; National Blues Harmonica Champion; National Country Harmonica Champion; Kansas State Bluegrass Harmonica Champion; and award winning professional harmonica instructor.
We are honored that Tulsa has agreed to be one of the members of our panel in support of our harmonica players! We know this will kick that part of our showcase up a notch!
Please send in your jams right away
so we can post them!
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THE ENTRIES!