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Re: Will JAM continue

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Tony BaechlerJun 16, 2013
 

 
Interesting that you mention wanting regular players. If you look at the
series up to around 1986, you'll see that many of the series ran 26 episodes
with mostly the four regulars. Even when there was a guest, they still kept
at least two or three of the regulars. Eventually there were more guests
and the regulars didn't appear as often. Now the only guaranteed regular is
Paul.

Since you mentioned Gyles, I had a realization thanks to Dean's site. Even
though Paul is now a regular and has more appearances than the other players
nowadays, Gyles is actually a much longer player, going back to the
originals. It's no wonder to me that he's so good at the game because he
has had a lot of experience. I think in terms of challenges and
personality, he is closest to CF but without being as grumpy. He likes the
arbitrary challenge though, like repitition of "you" and pushing the rules
of the game. I think that similar to CF, his goal is to win and outsmart
the rest of the players. I also think that's exactly why he wouldn't make a
good replacement for Nicholas.

On 6/16/2013 4:28 PM, Troubleshooter wrote:
> Personally I'd like to see Nic continue for as long as he wants to, and I have to think he wants to do so until the 50th year of the series as long as his health allows it. Paul holds the show together, even when he's having an off day. Amazingly Gyles keeps coming more and more into his own and given the number of shows he has appeared in in recent series I'd say he will be happy to continue being an anchor.
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> I realize that most of the more popular players have bigger career priorities than JAM, and that Graham, Sue and many of the others are not always available for recordings. Having said that, I do feel there are enough very good players at this time to limit the number of new players to only one per recording, and frankly I enjoy listening more when all four players are well known(in the JAM rotation)to me. I know Nic wants to always have a different lineup for every recording date, but that doesn't always translate to a good show - and unfortunately two good shows as they record two at a time. There have been several very good players missing from the 2013 lineup, players who should have been in the 2013 lineup rather than newcomers or players who have few shows under their belt. Many players have grown on me because of their frequency playing the game and getting ever better at it. If it is necessary to change recording dates around in order to accommodate the better known player
s to appear I think they should do so, rather than making do with who is available on the recording date. For me solid players are what makes JAM so enormously enjoyable, not listening to newbies struggling to last 20 seconds and not even amusing in their attempt to do so.
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> These are just my thoughts of course, and I'll keep listening regardless for as long as the show continues.
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