I reprised last week’s song with Glen lending his harmonica for an instrumental break. I lost my concentration towards the end of the song and had to take it in for a rough landing. It’s an edgy song; a couple of people indicated their dislike of it in the chat. Melody, the event host, will include it in the Halloween song packet. That’s all the approval I need.
San Jose Ukulele Club
Snippets of the October 11 Zoom session are here.
Gilroy Ukulele Jam
The occasion was Glen’s birthday and Halloween. Florence covered “Monster Mash,” Curt covered “Adams Family.” Karen covered “Witchy Woman,” Linda covered “Da Doo Glen (Run) Glen (Run).” Kurt covered “In The Shade of the Old Apple Tree,” Karen did “Glen (Georgia) On my mind,” Linda covered the unavoidable “Ghost Chickens in the Sky.” Karen covered “Love Potion #9”. The rounder was a limerick oriented song.
Ukulele Rebellion / Bronco Billy’s
Melody covered “Anybody Seen My Ghoul (Girl)” and “Science Fiction Double Feature” from the “Rocky Horror Picture Show” movie. Stephanie performed “Ain’t no Sin” and “Zombie Jamboree.” Pam & Mike performed “Season of the Witch” with a flute solo, and Jeremy synthesized a harmonica with his Roland. Melody covered Donovan’s “Mellow Yellow.
Ukulele Club of Silicon Valley
Re-subscribe alert! From Dave Fichtner: Each of you need to join/subscribe.
Just send an email to Uke-Club-Silicon-Valley+subscribe@groups.io Because of the number of people who may choose to join this group, I have it open to everyone right now. I will change this to requiring approval after a couple of weeks. I do this to keep out spammers.
Groups.io seems to be a much more sophisticated platform than Yahoo Groups. Once everyone has joined and we are back playing again, it will be easy to set up subgroups. We still will be able to post photos, have the songbook online or any other material of interest. I’m limited to 1Gig of data… for a “free” subscription.
Even though I’ve set it up so that I have to approve everyone, I haven’t put any other restrictions on the site at this time. So as time and experience goes by, that might change. Everything is open at this point. E.g. advertising a festival or products used to require a group vote. No restrictions at this time.
If things get “heavy” and if requested by the group, I could add some restrictions or could moderate. I doubt that will be necessary. I belong to a group on groups.io that sends a large volume of emails, I ask for a daily digest. That has solved the problem for me. You could do the same, if the volume gets too heavy.
I’m looking forward to a new experience with ukulele playing in 2021 and groups.io should help.
For example: Flash mob group. Instead of setting up a Yahoo Group for this, I can create an interest group within “groups.io” for flash mobs. I could do another one for banjo ukes, picking crew, or any other topic… all this without needing to subscribe to one more yahoo group.
This is the group site: click on it to see it and offer any suggestions on what you’d like changed! Uke-Club-Silicon-Valley groups.io Group
Shawn's Ukulele Stuff 