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A hot summer week in Southern California and Jake and his family are spending some vacation days out here, so what better idea then to get a few guys to bring some vintage Rics and some new acquisitions .... enlist a few drummers and a keyboardist, to have a little get together Mini Con - Jake Jam on a Saturday afternoon ? !

Many thanks to our host, Gary, for sharing his fantastic music studio !

Anyone downloaded their cameras yet and have some pics to post ?

Big thanks to Gary for holding the event, and everyone in attendance for making this a fun filled, ultra friendly event! Always looking forward to these confluences!

Rich -- check your email.

Yeah, this was an absolute blast. A lot of music was played. There were many highlights, but I really enjoyed playing early Who with Collin, it sounded like what would happen if Tom Petty and Mike Campbell played The Who. I also liked playing Byrds with Gary and Rich quite a bit.

I test drove a fireglo Tom Petty 660/12. There's a shot that Gary took where I look like the cover of Damn The Torpedoes with the 660. It was a great guitar, and I will make a return to a 660/12...one day.

But the best playing and sounding guitar was probably Dan-O's 360/12 Carl Wilson. It was certainly the best 12-string guitar I've ever played. It had a sound like no other, and that thin top really makes for that classic sound. It sounded noticeably different than Gary's McGuinn.

I also liked Collin's 365 New Capri. I liked it so much, I pretended to leave with it!

Gary, you've got a wonderful home, an awesome selection of gear and an ultra-cool music studio. Thanks again for hosting it and letting us hang out and jam there!! You guys really do make fun times.

Today I met Jay Leno at The Tonight Show and got a picture with him. Very cool guy.

Here are some Mini Con pictures from Jake's camera that he passed to me, (while he is off at TV shows filming while here on vacation)

Batch 1

Batch 2 of the Jake Jam pictures

Here is Batch #3 that Jake forwarded to me ....

The 4th Batch of Jake Jam Mini Con pictures ......

That's all for now ..... hopefully some other folks got more pictures of Collin's Capri

What's the matter, nobody there likes Fireglo, or something?

What gives you that impression?

I definitely need to work on my smile (at least when pictures are being taken).

Danotron wrote:I definitely need to work on my smile (at least when pictures are being taken).

To quote Woody Allen: "Apt naturally."

I was acting naturally, I just wasn't smiling.............................I do smile (sometimes......even usually)

Anyway, I took a few pictures on my cell phone. This is my favorite. I had a great time last Saturday. Thank you Gary for sharing your house and thank you Jake for making SoCal a regular stop!

Finally transferred the pictures to the computer nd resized them.

Set #1 of 2:

Set #2 of 2:
That's all I took.

As always, if anyone wants a full-res copy, let me know and I'll be glad to e-mail them to you.

Looks like a great time! I was stuck at work. Like I am right now at 6:15 am.