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Esquimalt Jam spot - LISTEN UP
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| bbjones User Info... | Look. This is simple. If you fucksticks can't figure it out I'm gonna figure it out for you. This goes out to you fuckwads hucking bottles and computer monitors off the balcony, playing with your doors open and having parties till 2am outside: - Grow the fuck up or get the fuck out. Seriously. If I see any of this shit going on I'll personally come in your spot and unplug your shit for you since you have no fucking clue. To anyone else that thinks the jamspots are a regualr party place... go get fucked somewhere else. This isn't a plea. This is a warning. Now fuck off and go act like a 16 year old somewhere else. - Thu, 17 Jul 2008 4:05pm | ||
| Mike User Info... | I agree.. another letter singling out every room has been taped to the doors threatening to boot every band out if this doesnt stop. SHUT. YOUR. DOOR. Not to mention, this 'rumour?' about Rick May trying to move in there and turn the building into another Alpha situation is not something that needs encouragment... Ive been renting in that building since 1999 and I DO NOT want to lose my room through the actions of people who think they dont need to follow the rules or dont realize thet rules exist and neighbours who own homes have power in their own municipality. ALSO: If you get the letter first, dont chop it up into flaps or toilet paper, pass the damn thing onto the other bands that rent in your room and MAKE SURE THEY UNDERSTAND. - Thu, 17 Jul 2008 4:28pm | ||
| grimlord User Info... | I have only been at this spot for a few months but I have known bands in there for years and it would be a shame to go and find that others have ruined it for all the rest of us ,so grow oup or ship out we don't need that here. - Thu, 17 Jul 2008 4:50pm | ||
| Spinvis User Info... | I've seen doors open countless times when bands are jamming!! why do they do that, I'll automatically close their doors. that place is such a party on Friday nights. - Thu, 17 Jul 2008 4:53pm | ||
| J. Peatman User Info... | I'm surprised people STILL have doors open. Yes, there is no ventilation whatsoever in those places, but you gotta live with that and try to air out the place during breaks (I know, impossible). I don't know how many times there have been written warnings about this. Last time I was there on a saturday, around midnight, a certain metal band on the east corner had their door neatly closed but decided to OPEN THEIR WINDOW instead. Right next to the drums. Every note was perfectly audible to the houses on Aldebury street. Shame. - Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:37pm | ||
| Endeløs User Info... | It is a shame. You tards that can't get it through your thick monkey skulls to jam with CLOSED DOORS are going to ruin it for every band down there. New management = no where near the amount of shitslide that Latisha allowed. - Fri, 18 Jul 2008 4:12pm | ||
| bad_fairy User Info... | Is there new management? Cause leaving garbage around, throwing bottles, sending stuff over the balcony, having letters put on the doors and jamming with the doors open has been going on for YEARS and YEARS....nothing new there....same shit different day! It's kinda unfortunate and I do wish ya luck...'cause it's a great spot for bands....but many a management has come and gone and the same stuff keeps happening!! - Thu, 31 Jul 2008 3:30pm Edited: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 3:31pm | ||
| Spinvis User Info... | yeah there's been new management for awhile - Thu, 31 Jul 2008 4:48pm | ||
| lonemonk User Info... | New management needs new 24/7 cameras to illuminate the culprits, and immediately move all their shit out into the streets. How can it not be a matter of time before any sane person asks themselves, 'Why Bother with this bullshit?', and turn around and make a killing on the sale or destruction of the building to become expensive condos. There is obviously some money to be made in that crazy business, but eventually the 1000-pound shit-hammer comes down. What I don't understand is; Is there a whole lot of bands keeping the doors open and partying until next-week, or a manageable number of assholes? If the good outnumber the bad, then it sounds like a time for street justice. - Fri, 1 Aug 2008 4:37am Edited: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 4:42am | ||
| BBJones User Info... | It is only a few dickheads causing all the problems. Street justice is in full effect, but rarely do I camp out the jamspot at midnight on Sunday to go yell at people for acting like they are 12 years old. It is nothing new. Its just self centered kids that don't care about or respect anything else around them. But yes I agree, single them out and kick them out. Problem solved... until the next group of twits move in. - Fri, 1 Aug 2008 8:21am Edited: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 8:21am | ||
| Mike User Info... | had to shut #105's door on them last night.. not that it was fully open but it was ajar.. Gave it a good slam. - Fri, 1 Aug 2008 12:13pm | ||
| Spinvis User Info... | I don't get it. There are bright orange warning notices on all doors yet they still leave them open. !&*#^!@ - Fri, 1 Aug 2008 12:28pm | ||
| Mike User Info... | well.. aside from #105.. there is a sign on everyone else's. ALthough #106 notice was found chucked into the parking lot within a few hours of being placed, someone seems to have duct taped them on to most of the doors now. - Fri, 1 Aug 2008 1:28pm | ||
| BBJones User Info... | someone... haha - Fri, 1 Aug 2008 1:49pm Edited: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 1:50pm | ||
| evilkleg User Info... | Let's face it- the new management doesn't want us there anymore. They will tell us all kinds of things about how it would be so much more profitable to lease the space out for commercial businesses etc. However, it will cost them a fortune to re-model or just improve the spaces before ANYONE ELSE in their right mind would move in! And what are they going to do about the styrene fumes when the new tenants complain? Write a letter? The entire top floor would have to be gutted. We already get charged an unreasonable amount to play in those shitholes with no support from the land er, slum-lords IMO. I think that we are providing a nice little revenue stream every month for these people in exchange for having to do NOTHING about upkeep and repairs. Don't get me wrong, I like rehearsing there it's just we've heard it all before. Remember, every summer any band practicing anywhere will get more complaints because other people have their windows open and can actually hear us instead of blissfully watching "The Hills" or "So you think you can Dance". After it starts to get cold again I bet the noise complaints will miraculously go down again. - Fri, 1 Aug 2008 4:03pm | ||
| Spinvis User Info... | They can't even fix our lights, we have no proper lighting.. so we use lamps. - Fri, 1 Aug 2008 4:41pm | ||
| Mike User Info... | That place sat empty for years.. back in the day the recording studio in #103 were the only tenants in the whole building! (Bent Sound..) Then the marble shop moved in and the styrene scared Bent Sound's clients away and they shut down. Colliers were nice enough to seal the floors and vent the marble shop and the fumes went away in #103.,. The Church oF Scientology moved in for a few months and a vacuum cleaner salesman for a few months but they were all shortlived.. The bands are the best thing that building has seen for years in those shitholes. And you are right EvilKleg.. NOBODY else wants those rooms which is why they sat empty for years, not to mention the current styrene situation in every room past #104. - Fri, 1 Aug 2008 5:34pm | ||
| KRIEG User Info... | Mike, in all your old-man reminiscing you neglected to mention the escort agency that brought many a shy, shameful clients past a string of socializing metalheads on the balcony. Good times. - Fri, 1 Aug 2008 9:14pm | ||
| RiCk MaY dba PRO JAM SPACES User Info... |  anyways, just wanted you all to know that i do NOT and have NEVER had any intentions on being any part of that building. i have never even been there before! but, i DO have the same new property manager as y'all and i know that they have plans to upgrade all of s.c.mitchell's properties, so watch out! peace. - Fri, 1 Aug 2008 11:14pm Edited: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 11:17pm | ||
| Curmudgeon Rocker User Info... | Wow, R.M. - if that photo is any indication, that's quite the pro jam spaces you have to offer! - Sat, 2 Aug 2008 12:45pm | ||
| Mike User Info... | "hey mike...i hope that wasn't an insult!?" Just what I heard Rick, you know how the grapevine can be. Didnt seem like an insult when I wrote it. But when we've been renting the room for 7-8 years, tend to get a bit possesive as you can imagine. - Sun, 3 Aug 2008 7:44pm | ||
| Spinvis User Info... | Ah, the days of Bent Sound, thats when the parking lot used to be pretty much empty. Those were good days :) - Sun, 3 Aug 2008 9:37pm | ||
| bbjones User Info... | How aobut 15 years ago renting from Julian May jamming in his living room staring at the leftover KD in a pot on his 2 burner hotplate on the floor. No other bands or studios around back then that I can remember... - Mon, 4 Aug 2008 4:35pm Edited: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 4:37pm | ||
| KRIEG User Info... | Lincoln wins the old-man-reminisce-off... ...Until Mike brings up the Meatlockers. - Mon, 4 Aug 2008 6:39pm | ||
| BBJones User Info... | Go for it. Then I'll bring up the Fish lockers... - Tue, 5 Aug 2008 7:39am Edited: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 7:39am | ||
| Corporal Jigsore Quandary User Info... | Just be thankful that you got to jam there for so long! Did you honestly think it was going to last forever? Eventually the building will be sold and you'll all be out on your Asses, its called business and the all mighty dollar! you think the new owner is going to care about a few bands who can’t afford their own studios? NOPE, they care about demolishing the building and rebuilding in prime commercial local! Start planning your departure, that’s my advice. - Tue, 5 Aug 2008 2:23pm | ||
| BBJones User Info... | While we appreciate your wild and uniformed guessing, the situation is no different anywhere else until you own your own property. And until then, people can learn to respect other bands in the same situation... since that is all we're talking about here... respect... that and not being a douchbag. - Tue, 5 Aug 2008 2:40pm | ||
| Corporal Jigsore Quandary User Info... | I wasn't trying to be a douche bag, which by the way I love the word! Douche is the best thing to happen to all the band whores that hang around those spots! However, I was just calling it like I see it. I used to jam there back in the day but just for a short while, I bought a home and have a studio downstairs. I feel for you, but that building needs to be torn down! - Tue, 5 Aug 2008 2:53pm | ||
| Spinvis User Info... | Yeah and one day the world is going to end, lets just stop doing anything - Tue, 5 Aug 2008 3:24pm | ||
| Tambo User Info... | THE SKY IS FALLING! THE SKY IS FALLING! - Tue, 5 Aug 2008 3:35pm | ||
| BBJones User Info... | Wasn't calling you a douchebag, Corporal, that was directed at all the disrespectful bands in the building acting like 12 year olds. And now I'm jealous... wish I had owned a place I could set up a studio in. I do agree that renting is a never ending rotation. - Tue, 5 Aug 2008 4:09pm | ||
| Corporal Jigsore Quandary User Info... | No worries there BB Jones, I hear ya, those bands that think they are already famous and can do what they want right, there is a certain band in there, won't name any "metal" names, but they have the holier than thou attitude and think they own the place. Trust me fellows you have not made it out of Victoria yet! Therefore maybe slow down on the attitude. You maybe ok but nothing special. No need to party like rock stars and ruin everyone else’s jamspot when clearly you have nothing to go on. Good Luck! - Tue, 5 Aug 2008 4:49pm | ||
| Mike User Info... |  And the only rockstars in that building are my new band.. we've played The Cobalt twice you know. You can send us bags of douchebaggery as penance. - Tue, 5 Aug 2008 7:07pm | ||
| KIMBERLEYKAOS User Info... | Yea, I wasn't there partying Sat night, nope, sure wasnt. :) Kidding. - Wed, 6 Aug 2008 11:12am | ||
| Mike User Info... | having a few friends there and 'partying' technically shouldnt be an issue.. however, friends will do things like leave doors open while the band are playing.. maybe the band are absorbed and don't notice.. the same friends will leave their beer bottles on the railing.. which gets bumped and smashes glass down into the parking lot and entrance ways of the day time businesses below. (or onto their work vehicles roofs) Drunk friends may be very loud and hooting and hollering.. while the distant dull thud of a bass amp may not bother a home owner, the sound of drunk hooligans smashing glass and swearing echoing off the cement walled buildings might freak them right out. Its all relative and preventable with a small amount of common sense. - Wed, 6 Aug 2008 12:34pm | ||
| Curmudgeon Rocker User Info... | aw man someone had to go and mention that freaked-out little shrub Julian May?! A stomach-turning memory comes to mind of him showing off a pair of handcuffs on the wall above his bed - in a room shared with, or next door to, (n)Arcfiend/Dreadnaut. (currently Mito's jam spot, I believe) While I'm at this old man reminiscing thing, I REALLY miss the old salad days ('89-94) - O.T.T.G sharing #104 with this incredibly depressing bar band who then fucked off and got replaced by a bunch of Tony Goluza bands and Pigment Vehicle. 104 was also known as the Dethpit, and we had a bunch of cool, CROWDED gigs there like Victims Family, Ed Hall, Don Cabellero, Foreskin 500, and 'drum clinics' with Rey Washam and John McIntyre. Next door was a woodworking shop - two dudes - one of them was this quiet, polite dude named Paul who rigged up a system whereby a door-bell button on the wall behind my drums could be pressed - once for one beer, twice for two, etc - and voila he'd arrive with white gloves holding a tray with x amount of beer. He also took orders for KD, tuna sandwiches, or hot dogs. It was fucking sick. If I recall correctly Tim and Hugh ran up gargantuan tabs. I was a bit more respectful on that front. - Thu, 7 Aug 2008 5:24pm | ||
| Name / Alias User Info... | Holy shit!!! How was Don Cabellero??? I'd have killed to see that! - Thu, 7 Aug 2008 8:29pm | ||
| BBJones User Info... | oh cool, there were other bands/jamspots back then... couldn't remember at all... - Fri, 8 Aug 2008 8:45am | ||
| Zippgunn User Info... | I played the hottest gig of my life there with Shovhed (supporting Victims Family). The sweat kept going into my eyes so played pretty much the whole show with my eyes closed. VF had a huge flashing sign that read "Danger: Hearing Hazard"! Saw Don Caballero there (great) and OTTG (totally drunk as fuck) and others. Ah, memories... - Sat, 9 Aug 2008 12:23pm | ||
| grimlord User Info... | Does anyone remember the Steel street house or bonehead's caladonya st. fucken shit went down there at both places that I could tell you all but then I would have to kill you,and that is just way to much work. - Sat, 9 Aug 2008 2:12pm | ||
| Lucius User Info... | Fire Dept was @ the jam spots last night around 8ish doing an "inspection". Cool group of guys. Anyways, we don't have any fire extinguishers..do you? Cheers, Lucius - Sat, 16 Aug 2008 12:29pm | ||
| Mike User Info... | "Anyways, we don't have any fire extinguishers..do you?" Yep.. 2.. one seems to be empty though - Sat, 16 Aug 2008 4:08pm | ||
| Mr. Hell User Info... | They've come to inspect before. We got our extinguisher after they made it law. Did it function properly? We'll never know. Although I seem to remember a Portigoose setting it off briefly. Or maybe that was at Sancha Hall. - Sat, 16 Aug 2008 4:10pm | ||
| Mike User Info... | I seem to recall we had one once when they came there and they were happy about that - Sat, 16 Aug 2008 4:42pm | ||
| Curmudgeon Rocker User Info... | "I seem to remember a Portigoose setting it off briefly" y'ain't talkin bout that pork chop rick santos are ya? rick santos, aka hamburger tit, aka sometimes the wind is better he'll know - Sun, 17 Aug 2008 9:52am | ||
| Mike User Info... | NOTE TO THE BANDS: There's a new notice posted on all the doors.. the OWNER is touring through all the rooms on Thursday 28th at 4pm. This may be the visit that determines the future of bands in the building.. Id recommend cleaning up your empties, rotting garbage and hiding any dead corpses/roach collections etc. before they are shocked into invoking a mass eviction of the depraved heathens in their building.. - Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:59pm | ||
| KIMBERLEYKAOS User Info... | You guyz aw in twouuuuubbbllle... If anyone wants any help cleaning, let me know. I've made my share of trouble and bottle collection there over the years, time to spread the buddah mojo and offer some service...cleaning. Fuck. Trying to be nice, can hear the spin off's of my comments coming back to haunt me now... :) - Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:23pm | ||
| Mike User Info... | Kim thanks, but its more about the individual rooms being prepared as there have been warnings not to have parties down there but then even one bands weekend empties might look look a massive party happened to someone who is more conservative than the average musician.. If you know anyone in a certain room and can gain access.. Im sure nobody would deny your services :) my band are in transition from one room to another so our end is covered. - Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:07am | ||
| 1986 User Info... | man, our place was a shithole when we got it...maybe they'll fix er up... - Wed, 27 Aug 2008 5:45pm | ||
| Nicholas Antoni Marek Gibas User Info... | Okay coming by at 4pm on a weekday??? Do they not know that people work? EVER??? - Wed, 27 Aug 2008 9:54pm | ||
| lonemonk User Info... | As a landlord the best time to inspect is when most will NOT be there. How better to see the state it is in for those tenants who are too fucking dumb to clean shit up? - Sat, 30 Aug 2008 1:59am Edited: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 2:02am | ||
| Sedlec User Info... | ROOM #106 - KINDLY KEEP YOUR DOOR CLOSED WHILE JAMMING. It was wide open today (Sunday evening). Please abide by all the bright orange warning notices.... - Mon, 1 Sep 2008 6:42pm | ||
| Corporal Jigsore Quandary User Info... | Yep, let's keep the doors closed! Common sense? These punks think they are already rock stars. If that were the case they would not be in such desperate need for a scummy run down jam spot! - Tue, 2 Sep 2008 10:31am | ||
| Mike User Info... | yah Nick whats up with that.. I know you have a few bands in there but it seems to be a recurring issue with that room, you need to have a talk with your roomies. This is not rocket science.. - Tue, 2 Sep 2008 11:40am | ||
| Mutilashawn User Info... | That was just us turning amps on ... thanks for closing the door though, won't happen again. I'll have a chat with the other folks in there. - Tue, 2 Sep 2008 3:57pm | ||
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| Nicholas Antoni Marek Gibas User Info... | I'm pretty sure eveyone knows to close the door. I made it pretty apparent. But we all make mistakes. No need to freak out over the new rules, yeah it sucks but hey whatever. - Tue, 2 Sep 2008 11:54pm | ||
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