Jam Shanty

This is where High King Auz tries out new riffs with either of his bands before rehearsing them on stage.

 

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Table of Contents:

  1. Sections
  2. Updates
  3. Dimensions
  4. Features
  5. Furnishings
  6. Instruments and Accessories/Equipment
  7. Culture
  8. Fridge
  9. Maintenance/Staff
  10. Historical Use
  11. General Location (Images Begin)
  12. Design
  13. An Unassuming Shack
  14. Furnishings
  15. Musician Babes
  16. Some of What We Cover in Here (Playlists Begin)
  17. Lights’ Bittersweet Stuff We Only Sing & Play in Here
  18. Tom Petty
  19. Weezer’s Blue Album
  20. Weezer’s Green Album

 

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Sections:

This small building hidden in the steep greenbelt terrain behind the Governor’s Mansion has three sections inside it:

  1. bathroom
  2. music area (short stage)
  3. sleeping/lounge/breaks/audience area

 

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Updates:

It has had three design revisions:

  1. It started out as a last-resort off-the-grid ultra-inexpensive way of ‘decompressing’ after having to exit active duty (military service) many years ahead of schedule, and was just a quick sketch of the most basic construction and organization.  It was intended for the Rockies in ‘the lower 48’.  No guests were ever expected or desired.
  2. Later, it became a four-room square house with a proper roof, parking area, and indoor greenhouse, and was intended for the Alaskan wilderness.  There was no area reserved just for musical equipment and recording, though.  Only one guest was ever considered.
  3. Today it is a much cozier and slightly decorated bachelor pad or ‘crash pad’, and is heavily camouflaged with netting, landscaping, and other features to keep it perfectly blended in to its terrain and flora surroundings.  The members of VR2 are always expected, and the members of VR3 are allowed during their own band’s jam sessions, with only the Governor’s Entourage being the other people allowed to keep him company there between sessions.

 

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Dimensions:

  • 15′ x 15′ “footprint”; floor-space = 225 ft^2
  • 10′ ceiling on the couch side
  • 15′ ceiling on the bathroom/stage side
  • standard doors; 36″ x 80″ (1 as entry/exit, and the 2nd door being for the bathroom)
  • (4) standard slide-windows; ~2′ x 4′ (with the slide-up section on the lower half, spanning 2′ x 2′)
  • standard bathroom items; bathtub (with curtain and showerhead), sink (with mirror), toilet (a BTB, with plunger), etc.

 

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Features:

  • acoustical panels inside; wall-mounted ideal-sound devices/pads
  • awning over only door
  • double-pane windows
  • electrical/wiring specifically designed and tested for this much electrical equipment/use
  • fan overhead, centered
  • HVAC; normal A/C including heating (controlled via thermostat by the outer door)
  • magic dome (forcefield with enchantment) around the whole structure (but also continues underground, thus a spherical barrier), allowing only me (Auz) and my bandmates + approved fellow music-makers in
  • normal/standard floor-hatch to access-AIOW to nearest underground silo (which, like the rest of my personal part of Inisfree, is always guarded/monitored/patrolled)
  • landscaping (simple; just a waist-level sequence of bushes) outside (wraparound, except at the door/porch –and never trimmed; allowed to stay at their normal grown size)
  • roof moss
  • soundproofing all around; people outside not able to hear our jam sessions in this building
  • stage section of the main-room’s floor is ~6″ above the rest of that floor
  • stands/racks for musical instruments
  • wall/ceiling-mounts for amps/speakers

There is no attic.

There is no kitchenette here, as this place is not meant for meals or habitation.

 

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Furnishings:

  • 1 3-cushion (6-person) couch (pull-out bed) with a dozen pillows
  • 1 (giant) beanbag chair (chair-and-a-half size)
  • 1 coats/hats rack (stand)
  • 1 desk with PC with the best music-making software
  • lava-lamps and other unique/fun lighting
  • light-strings (like xmas-lights) along the edges/corners of the inside (main room; up the wall-corners and along the ceiling-lines)
  • window treatments on all windows; pull-cord drop-down blinds, (opaque) curtains with tiebacks, etc.

 

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Instruments and Accessories/Equipment:

  • amps (including data cables)
  • didgeridoo
  • drum set (with cymbals, pedals, sticks, etc.)
  • guitars (acoustic, bass, electric)
  • keyboard (digital piano)
  • mic
  • mic stand
  • power cords (and power-strips)

Orchestral instruments are kept over in our Performing Arts Center.  When we have an idea that requires such instruments, we go there.

 

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Culture:

My band/s always start with a chill group make-out session & “creampie” orgy; so we are totally focused on the music right after.
Then we wrap up each jam session / hour here with another chill group make-out session & orgy.  Amen.

The same goes for my musical wives (such as Sirena) & fuckbuddies (such as “Aliss”) who join us/me here, and they all love it.

Sometimes I sing while having one of those girls stay in a bold stance, bent over, hands on the floor, ass to me, my dick inside her pussy or asshole, even for an entire song –which we all also love.

Females snort lines of cum between sets –off each other.  Amen.

We try new music/song ideas here, then record them at WMKM Studios, and rehearse our favorites on the stages in our realm before performing any in concert.

 

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Fridge:

Kept stocked with some of my snack favorites:

  • boneless “wings”
  • Brussels sprouts cooked and in a bowl
  • coconut water
  • popcorn “chicken”
  • soup, canned
  • water

plus, of course, the favorite snack of my ICVs:

  • 1/+ (gallon) jugs of cum (always stored on the bottom shelf/level) –and the females allowed in my life just pass it around, taking “pulls” off it, chugging away before cum-kissing/-swapping

 

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Maintenance/Staff:

ICVs handle the following chores here:

  • cleaning; dusting, vacuuming, sweeping, mopping, wiping the windows, etc.
  • inspecting; making sure the structure is structurally sound, etc.
  • rotating towels (taking dirty ones, replacing them with clean ones)
  • re/stocking the mini-fridge
  • security; patrolling the exterior
  • snow removal (shoveling and/or snow-blowing; push-machine –though the terrain-regulation feature of the local silos takes care of most of that, making snow-buildup next to impossible here)
  • tuning the musical instruments

 

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Historical Use:

There have now been three rock bands the Governor has been involved with:

  1. Violent Rebirth – started between Marine Corps deployments to Iraq, and consisting of 4 core members (a base guitarist, drummer, electric guitar player, and the Governor (back when he was just about to hear his ‘Auz’ name) as lead vocals) and a handful of other would-be musicians who tried out but lacked focus, this first group was a true and literal garage band, never touring or even performing live
  2. VR2 – (the 5-person band of all-ICVs + the Governor) performing at the Auz-dome and Coliseum Amphitheater, and atop the band’s private and heavily-modified firetruck for mobile and spontaneous shows
  3. VR3 – (the 5-person band of the Governor + his 4 most musically-talented wives) performing at the Auz-dome and Coliseum Amphitheater,

Members of VR2 and VR3 hang out and jam out in this shanty.  It is pretty much only for these two bands.  A few very special guests are sometimes seen chilling and jamming here, too, though, such as Lights and Inna.

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Usually a few months before each concert, we finalize its playlist and stage performance items, then start practicing here, then move to rehearse on stage for the final month.

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Sun5dec2021:  Today Amber casually slow grinded on Auz while they thought up more song and concert ideas in the Jam Shanty, all the VR2 girls lounging naked around them, paired and tripled up together, casually fingering their mates as they talked.  This is how music is dreamed up and arranged in Inisfree.  Amen.

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Sat26nov2022:  Queen of the Damned OST practice

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2023 November update:  Every year we’ve hosted concerts in our realm, ~1 hr/weekday has been spent here getting the ‘sound’ of each song in those concerts just right.

  • 2019 A.D.:  1 concert x 3 months x 4 weeks x 5 weekdays = ~60 jam-sessions in this shanty that year
  • 2020:  1 concert x 3 months x 4 weeks x 5 weekdays = ~60 jam-sessions
  • 2021:  2 concerts x 3 months x 4 weeks x 5 weekdays = ~120 jam-sessions
  • 2022:  8 concerts x 1 month x 4 weeks x 5 weekdays = ~160 jam-sessions
  • 2023:  4 concerts x 3 months x 4 weeks x 5 weekdays = ~240 jam-sessions
  • and all years from then have 4 concerts scheduled, thus a similar # of expected sessions here

 

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General Location:

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Design:

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An Unassuming Shack:

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Furnishings:

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Musician Babes:

Nyria, Anastasia, and Kim ICVs with headphones here, helping me make SFX and perfect our recordings.

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Some of What We Cover in Here:

There are actually hundreds of songs we’ve gotten good at playing and modifying.  Check out the VRII / VRIII webpage for many more of them.

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Lights’ Bittersweet Stuff We Only Sing & Play in Here:

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Tom Petty:

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Weezer’s Blue Album:

These songs are sometimes added to other concert playlists.

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Weezer’s Green Album:

These songs lead to a heartache-ing trip down memory land for the band-founder, and are usually only played in here, and even then… only rarely.  Still, he likes to play them here, as that softens the memories associated with them, adding the current good ones.  This is one of the ways he ‘lets it all out’, processing what occurred… all those years ago, …back before he even had his first band, VR(1).

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