I am looking for someone to jam with on occasion.  I enjoy music and like the therapeutic, soothing effect it has. 

I play guitar.  I have no musical training.  Although I had a good voice once, that was decades ago and I can barely croak a note now.  Ideally, a jam partner would play rhythm guitar and/or keyboards and perhaps sing a little.  He or she shouldn’t be so much better than I am, on guitar, that I would have to work too hard to keep up. This is, after all, supposed to be fun for me.

I was a teenager in the sixties, so it should come as no surprise that some of my favourite music hails from that era.  I enjoy The Beatles, Moody Blues, Pink Floyd, etc., and the instrumental music of the Ventures, Chantays, Chet Atkins and Les Paul.

When music lost its harmonies, when there began to be more than one musical syllable per lyrical syllable, when words became indecipherable behind overdriven and distorted power chords on guitar, I lost interest.

What I do now to amuse myself is play mostly instrumentals from the sixties, like 'Walk, Don’t Run' by the Ventures, 'Tahitian Skies' by Chet Atkins and other similar stuff. 

I also like to take snippets from classical music and build jazzed up variations of things like Tchaikovsky’s 'Fifth Symphony' or Beethoven's 'Für Elise.' 

The Russian original of the jazz classic 'Dark Eyes,' performed by many swing orchestras in the forties and called 'Otschi Tschornie,' is also a favourite of mine.

Often, my interpretations are completely unlike the original, like my lead part in this song, a bluegrassy gospel song called 'Don't Go Down That Long Lonesome Road."

I don't pretend to be a great musician.  I just want to have fun.  Have a listen to the mp3 files linked ‘under’ the titles in the paragraphs above and if you are interested in getting together for a trial jam, let me know.

I live in North London (Ontario, not U.K.) and have a room where we can practice any time.  I have keyboards there, five guitars and some multitrack recording software on a computer.  I can also travel to jam elsewhere.