A Sticky Situation Jam: Guitar and Drums Improvised Instrumental

Recorded on New Years Day 2020, Jamuary first. Get it? JAM-uary? It’s a sticky situation jam – improvised instrumental music by Nick Ring and BW Derge.

A Sticky Situation on JAM-uary 1st 2020.

• Nick is tuning the guitar as BW walks over…
• [Cough]
• [Let’s do something… totally different.]
• [Sticks here…]
• [Huh?]
• [There are more sticks here than I’m used to, that’s why]
• [There’s 1 there, 2 there. An extra pair.]
• [A sticky situation]
• Drumroll….
• Getting started around the 0m44s mark
• Nick Ring on the Guitar
• BW Derge on the Drums
• Improvised instrumental music from Frederick, MD
• Former members of the defunct Shaman Funk
• Gets going at 2m2s mark
• [Laughing]
• BW dropped his stick. It’s a sticky situation jam.
• Jam taking off around 2m40s
• Pretty easy listening jam so far
• Pace has picked up nicely by 4½ minute mark
• The sunny New Year’s day sun shining through the window
• The old trees can be seen in the sunlight
• Drums going a little nuts around 7m10s mark
• 7m48s – big breakdown. *YES!*
• Very cool jam developing around 8m45s mark
• Little did we know, the world was going to shutdown in about 3 months…
• Calming down around 9m35s…
• Very cool back and forth during the 10^th minute of music…
• Pretty chill beat now at 11m15s, keeps it going…
• Nick comes in with some chimes. Chime on, man.
• Ambiance begins around 12m20s… very chill.
• Still in the ambiance… silence at 13:44.
• [Eh, keep going.]
• [Oh. Okay.]
• [It just felt like an appropriate time to end it.]
• [Oh, it was. But, uh, it ended itself.]
• [Yeah. Yeah.]
• [Song had a mind of its own]
• [That was pretty cool.]
• [Got like, 5 or 10 minutes?]
• [Sure.]
• 14m37s – tried to pick it up again.
• [Laughing]
• 15 minute mark: started something a little harder
• It’s got that funky edge to it.
• 15m50s – got the groove going
• We Jam. U ary. Jamuary. It’s Jamuary 1^st.
• 16m46s – little bit of a slip but they caught themselves
• 17m26s- Nick killing it on the guitars.
• 19m11s – nice breakdown! Lands in a nice groovy jam.
• 20m06 – quick transformation, pace picks up.
• 2/3 of the way there. 10 minutes left…
• 21m19 – going a bit off the rails there… then the train finds the tracks.
• 23m28 – really got something here. *YES!*
• 24m17s – kick ass breakdown.
• 25m05s- very nice landing into a pretty cool jam.
• It appears we are nearing the homestretch.
• Hope you enjoyed this jam from 2020.
• Improvised instrumental music by Nick Ring and BW Derge
• 27m57s – Going out on a fun bouncy jam here…
• Nick’s string snapped. It’s a sticky situation jam.
• 29m55s – This is the finale, I’m sure of it.
• 30m36s- And we’re out.
• [I broke a string in like, the last minute there so I was trying to like…]
• [I realized…]

A Sticky Situation Jam – Guitar and Drums Improvised Instrumental