Metpage International Jam Session Report

[Bert Jan]

Hey guys..
As some of you knew, today we had the first Metpage International Jam Session.
Together with Manuel (Neorrr) en Martijn (Yverish), we jammed om Metallica songs, and checked out FanCan 5.

Manuel and Me met this morning at noon in Groningen. We should take the 12.02 bus to Martijn's house, but Manuel was still a little used to the Spanish way of life, and because he had a long night, he turned up at 12.07, and we missed the bus. So we took the bus at 1 o clock and in the mean time, we bought a coke and had a chat.
When we arrived at Heerenveen where Martijn picked us up, we drove to his house and had some food. After that, we went to Martijns room, and installed the gear.

We had an awesome jam, about 3 hours long..and I guess almost all Metallica songs where played. Unfortunately, I wasnt fully recovered of my snowboard accident, and couldnt reach the high speed which they played in, and I didnt know how to play all the songs.. which resulted in that Manuel and Martijn where playing most of the time, but it ofcourse was extremely fun to see them playin all the songs.

Below some pics of the jam session!
Thanks a lot to Martijn and Manuel for the awesum jam session!

Martijn and Manuel



Manuel



Martijn



Martijn & Manuel



Bert Jan (me)(used Martijn's picture, because Mine is way to big..)

[Yverish]

Here comes in my report:

I was setting up the gear for the jam session at 12.00 (soundchecking both my amps, which I normally use in stereo, for equally volumes for mono playing), when I got a message from Bert-Jan they were coming an hour later... I just set up some more stuff and got everything ready for a quick lunch for me and the "boys", when we would arrive at my house.

I picked them up at 13.45 at the bus station and drove them to my place, we got some food and then got ready for the first official international metpage jamsession

We played through for almost 2 hours, whilst the person not playing was shooting pictures and movies. Then held a little break, watching the FanCan 5 dvd Manuel brought with him and the black album 5.1 DVD-Audio I own myself. After the break we did some more playing until 18.15 when Bert-Jan collected all his gear to head for the bus station again.

I dropped the guys of at 18.40 by the bus station, when the bus got there almost at the same time. We had a quick little chat and over was the meeting.

We've played bits of almost every Metallica song (except for a lot of Load/Reload stuff for some more or not more obvious reasons ) and it was just friggin' awesome. Prepare yourselfs for a nice videoclip compilation I'll be making, when I have all the footage in from the other two guys...

Edit: and ofcourse I forgot to add some pictures, so here they are...

Me, Bert-Jan and Manuel


Bert-Jan


Manuel

[Neorrr]

Hey guys, im just back in Madrid from the Netherlands, I'll spend some days here then go back to Malaga...

I must say I never had the oportunity to jam with friends who loved metallica as much as me and therefore could play the songs etc, so i must say this was a really awesome experience to have...

Thanks a lot guys for giving me such a nice time in the Netherlands, other than that i spent 6 days in Groningen with my old house-school mates which was pretty awesome (I lived there form Sept till Febr...). Thanks Martijn for the hospitality, and Bert for dealing with my non punctuality (you guys will never know how much this pisses off Dutch plp, but he was cool with it )

So yeah, when I get back to home in Malaga, ill make something with the videos to show u guys how it was.

Thanks again you two guy are great, and it was a really nice experience.