This is the first and original Free Jam Society website! Powered by JJ! The Free Jam Society is not a band, but rather refers to an open stage sometimes at Red Rocks where people (and sometimes high school jam bands from Littleton, and sometimes rare and precious Minky's) can come and have fun while Mother Nature sometimes cooperates! Have fun promoting renewable energy and music and the RR environment which is great for live sound and mobile recording and spirituality, drum rhythms and meditating, Native American Flutes, exercise, photography, hiking, stargazing, sightseeing, wildlife, Deer, 80lb.Raccoons, Bears, Squirrels, Eagles, Sunrise, Sunshine, Sunset, full Moon, Thai Chi, etc.
If you want to promote the true spirit of FJS then by all means, wherever you are, whomever you are, go out and have fun, make friends, spreading the magic of music. Don't just turn it into a band. FJS is not for people who are too serious or for people who are trying to crack into the "music biz" or for the Elmer Fuddy Duds. This website is for posting your FJS experiences. Everybody can help be a part of JJ's world class Free Jam Society website! Sign the guest book! Send us your photos and videos and music and we'll post them up!
If you like free music, stay here. All authentic FJS stuff mostly happens here. Just like The Stairway to Heaven.
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Thanks to Mack, Dave and Julio, and Red Rocks maintenance for keeping the place nice for everybody to enjoy! You know who you are and you know you are appreciated!
Thank you Red Rocks! For hosting the open stage with FJS! I would also like to thank the thousands of tourists and musicians from around the world and locally who have enjoyed and supported FJS at RR over the years.
FJS turns eight years old this year! Thank you Red Rocks and Mother Nature for 8 years of good times! I look foward to many more years of groovy FJS jams.
The Free Jam Society is a gig where almost anyone can bring their instruments, poetry, or other ideas and join in the open-stage-improv jam at the world famous Red Rocks Ampitheater! Young or old, all are welcome. Even Aaron the Synthesist with all of his good ideas! FJS just hosts and supplies the small keyboard amp style P.A. system, it's up to you to bring your own instrument. Low watt electronics or Acoustic is o.k. There are a couple of channels open on the little mixer for a Keyboard, Mandolin or Guitar and Bass, two Mics for a Drumset or Bongos, and two guest Microphones for Vocals or Saxophone or Didgeridoo. All of these instruments at once makes for a good jam!
There are hundreds of free mp3 files available from the recordings made at these jams! They can be played directly from the website and do not require downloading. Downloading is required only if you want to burn tracks to cd. The Free Jam Society title is a trademark and each artist's material is copyright protected. Feel free to enjoy them, just don't try to sell them. The mp3 quality is low in order to save web space, so click on the contact page if you would like a copy of the master cds from a particular jam date with the larger much better sounding wave files on them. Compact discs sound so much better than mp3 files do. With mp3s, the first thing that gets lost is the bass frequencies when compressing for the web. Go to the MP3 page to hear them and the calendar page to see the archives!
Come enjoy the music and join in the fun by bringing your instrument! If you are not on the mp3 page it is only because you have not showed up to the jam! Nearly everything gets recorded and posted about a week later!
While you are at Red Rocks, go to the Visitor's Center and take a walk through the "Hall of Fame", where a fine collection of famous autographed guitars are on display. And watch a free short movie about Red Rocks projected onto the '9 X '16 big screen in the 6450 Theater downstairs.
Be sure to check out www.friendsofredrocks.org
Peace, DM.
COLORADO RR FJS NEEDS SOMEWHERE GROOVY TO PLAY FOR NEW YEAR'S EVE 2008/2009! FJS has many components, four of which are: 1. Acoustic, 2. Techno, 3. Rock and Roll, and 4. African style drumming with Didgeridoo called Mak. Colorado RR FJS usually stays home on new year's eve because it's too cold to play outside at Red Rocks. But we don't want to stay home. Every year these four aspects of FJS would like to play inside somewhere warm all nite long on New Year's Eve. If you can give us a warm roomy place to play inside for the night we'll play for beer and peanuts and money if you wish to pay! (...and for the love of music mostly). From 8pm til midnite we'll Jam acoustic, African, Rock and Roll, and then Rave til Sun Rise with Techno! Please call David Miller at 720-404-9349 if you can house FJS for New Year's Eve this year.
Peace, DM.
PS. If anybody has seen Gunnar or Minky or Chris the dred head, would you please send them up to the main stage, we could really use a drum beat or two. Thanks.
...and JAM ON!