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Location: When?? | Now THAT is an awesome tribute! The perfect mix of clever and heart-warming. Curious as to what model you used for it. |
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Location: Denmark | Nice thinking, nice tribute, indeed. |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | That was Alison Swan's custom guitar. |
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Location: Frozen Tundra of Minnesota | TAFKAR - 2016-10-09 6:42 PM
That was Alison Swan's custom guitar.
She was SO proud of that Guitar!!! With good reason, the Boys did a Fabulous job (as per their usual! ) |
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Location: NJ | Gotta admit looking at those pics choked me up a bit
There are more on my website |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Thanks Al. I was looking all over for that guitar photo cuz I knew that I had seen it...
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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | Does anyone know where this guitar is now?
Edited by Patch 2016-10-17 12:40 PM
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | I am not positive about this Patch, but...
I think that Alison passed all of her shop on to her friends in Hot Springs, SD.
She had some students that she was really fond of.
I sold her an iDea guitar that she gave to one of her young'uns.
I later sold her an Elite T, and she gave that to a student as well.
Since she had time to "Get her affairs in order"
I am sure that she made sure that all of her guitars have homes.
Hey Alison... You are missed. 
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Location: Frozen Tundra of Minnesota | Old Man Arthur - 2016-10-17 2:15 PM
Hey Alison... You are missed.
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Location: 6 String Ranch | The last time I talked to her she said the best thing about dying was that she got to boss people around. She told me I had to come out and drive the Needles highway through Custer State Park. That was her gift to me.
Needles Highway 7/30/16 cwk2
(D) Running (D/C#)this Dakota (D/B)Highway (Am7)
(G) Thinking of a (F#m)friend who passed this (Em)way
(D) Said I should ()come and ()see her()
(Em)Don’t wait too long, (F#m)time is short, (G)could you leave (A)today?
(D) Been thirty years since I’ve seen her
(G) Thirty years since I’ve said her name
(D) I wonder how the time did treat her
(Em)Was it kind, Did she change, is she still the same?
(F#m) Dakota’s a long way from (Bm)anywhere
(G) Time for thinking on the (A)road
(Bm) Remembering the time that (C)we last talked
(Em) Saying goodbye, (F#m)with tears in eyes, (G)Oh so long ago(A)
lead break, G, A, D(walk down)Bm, Bm7, Em, F#m, G, A
(D) Running down the Needles Highway
(G) Thinking of my friend who passed today
(D) She said I should come and feel this
(Em)earth and sky, open ears and eyes, see what it has to say
(D) I take the last gift that she gave me
(G) How much it means she’ll never know
(D) Sunlight, pines, wide open spaces
(Em) Saying goodbye, with tears in eyes, so sad to see her go
(F#m) Dakota’s a long way from (Bm)anywhere
(G) Time for thinking on the (A)road
(Bm) Remembering the time that (C)we last talked
(Em) Saying goodbye, with tears in eyes, so sad to see her go
(D)running down that Needles Highway (run it)(4x)
(G)what a great (F#m)way to spend the (Em)day, (D) |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | it will be on the next cd, The J&B Brothers, early 2017. I didn't put in all the changes but you can follow it pretty easily. |
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Location: south east Michigan | I really look forward to hearing this one. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Nice!
That goes into the "Songs for me to Play" file. 
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Location: Lake Forest, CA | Beal - 2016-10-17 3:45 PM
(F#m) Dakota’s a long way from (Bm)anywhere
I made a trip to Rapid City, SD a couple of years ago and wanted to make a side-trip down to Hot Springs to meet Alison, etc. Rapid City is about 50 or so miles from Hot Springs.
When I mentioned this to her, she said that 50 miles in SD is different from 50 miles anywhere else, as if to say that 50 miles is small potatoes.
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Location: south east Michigan | Pam and I also did those miles.
Badlands, Needles Hwy, Mt Rushmore, Devils Tower, and... an afternoon with Alison. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I thought about heading over there again about a year ago, but we decided to go somewhere new instead. The places will always be there, the people won't. Great song, Beal. That falls into my category of "wish I had said that." |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I made the trip to her guitar shop a few times. The Needles Hwy is best experienced on a motorcycle. One time my brother and I stopped in to visit Alison in our leathers. She didn't know who we were until I told her. Then we had a big laugh when she was getting ready to throw us out. My brother tips the scales at over 260. I do miss her. |
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Location: Utah | Beal, nice words. |
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from my custom gallery
