I may be able to sneak away for some guitar fun although I'll only have my Traveler and my Korg PX3 with me. Post something here or email me (I've changed my address here to a hotmail address for web access) and I'll get back to you.

Thanks!

Had fun at the EMP (Experience Music Project) . It's a pretty skewed collection of stuff but worth the visit. I saw some cool footage of Peter Green with the original Fleetwood Mac line up doing "Oh Well" and footage of Mike Bloomfield playing with Paul Butterfield. I'd never seen either of them play before. I got a jam goin' in the demo area with a random bass player and drummer and we drew a small crowd and some applause. The drummer was awesome. The demo/learning kiosks they've set up are impressive and lots of fun.

Hope to hit the blues jam on Wednesday and the Celtic jam on Thursdsay in Olympia.

They had organ, bass, drums, and setups for two guitars and harp. Volume levels were perfect to my ears; just loud enough to get some sweet sounds from the amps and fill the room properly. I plugged my Traveler into a '60s era Musicman. Can't beat that tube tone! We got folks dancing. A harp player joined us for two tunes. A female vocalist came up for one of the tunes.

Lots of good communication between the players and good listening/responding as we played. No egos, just genuine love of the music. Luckily for me, there was only one other guitar player wanting to play and he wanted to close. They kept me up there for almost an hour as we ran through a variety of tunes and tempos.

If you're in the area, have a guitar with you, and want to play some electric blues with very friendly tasteful players, get down to this place.