Reasons to avoid jamming

[JeffD]

As an aid to newbies, I thought it would be fun for us to list as many reasons as we could for not going to a jam. I'll start with a few:

I'm not good enough.

I don't have a good enough mandolin.

I won't know anyone there.

Its too cold.

Its too hot.

I am too tired.

Justified is on television.

I need to practice.

I need to balance the check book.

I need to clean the dust under the bed.

I have to respond to a discussion on Mandolin Café first.


Now - why are you not jamming?

[JeffD]

I don't know any of the tunes.

I don't play any of that music.

I don't want to play with other people.

I don't even like people.

I would have to get out of my comfy chair.

[JeffD]

There is a political show on TV

Someone is wrong on the internet.

[Clement Barrera-Ng]

I'm afraid my MAS may flare up if I pick on another player's top shelf mandolin

[Mark Wilson]

For the longest time it was:

They play way too fast for me

I don't know any of the tunes they play

I'm halfway there at least

[HonketyHank]

They make funny faces and evil remarks when I pull out my mandobanjo.

[Bill McCall]

The traffic is too bad.
Its too nice a day.
Its too cold at that place.
Its too hot at that place.
Its too loud there.
Its outside and there's bugs.
There's too many banjos (okay, that's perfectly valid)
They'll laugh.
I'll cry.
I'll kiss that time goodbye.

[Mark Gunter]

Ain't nobody got time for that

[Kevin Stueve]

March Madness

Mandolin has developed a hairline crack on the back

[Drew Egerton]

I don't like to talk to strangers

The banjo is too loud

The old guy with the harmonica doesn't listen to others and plays too loud the entire time EXCEPT when called on for a break


Wait, those are still me....

[Fretbear]

Its outside and there's jugs.

[fifths]

It's in a bar and I quit drinking.

[Jess L.]

edit: nevermind, I was being too serious with my looooong list of complaints about jams, this is supposed to be a fun thread. I guess. Lol.

[derbex]

There's an accordion
There's a melodeon
There are more boxes there than at a DHL warehouse!

And a Hurdy Gurdy.

[dhergert]

I only want to do bluegrass songs

I only want to do swing songs

I only want to do Gospel songs

I only want to do folk songs

I only want to do jazz songs

I only want to do union/political songs

I only want to do Banks of the Ohio with all the verses, over and over...

[sw**ts]

What song would I play that I could remember the lead to?

Jan

[Peter Kurtze]

It's in a bar and I quit drinking.

Actually, that's a legit reason.

[JeffD]

duplicate

[JeffD]

They don't listen to me.

They don't listen.

Its not traditional enough.

Its too traditional.

Its too smoky.

You can't smoke there.

They serve drinks there.

You can't drink there.

[JeffD]

My friend went once and didn't enjoy it.

There is golf on TV.

There is a golf course on the way there.

There is a new river access on the way there.

Trout season opens.

The paraleptophlebia adoptive are hatching this evening.

[JeffD]

My spouse sleeps better at home.

[JeffD]

Its the same night as my son's trombone lessons.

[Randi Gormley]

that dude who hogs the limelight is there and he drives me nuts

I don't know what to wear

I have a paper cut

I went last week and was ignored

I went last week and was asked to solo

I need to change my strings

I lost my tuner

I don't know where I'd park

[Kevin Stueve]

Its the same night as my son's trombone lessons.

Now there is a valid reason. After all the world can always use another trombone player

[Darren Bailey]

I don't own a mandolin.
I'm in hiding from the police.
The prison guards keep my cell locked.
Last time I went they told me never to come back.
I'm frightened of the harp player.
I'm only four years old.