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Location: Queens, NY | To Al, Miles, and everyone at Ovation and Hamer. Thank you for a great day. The tour, the jam, the food were all excellent. And winning the raffle...that was a thrill of a lifetime! Talk about "Shock and Awe!". The Folklore Deluxe is great. I love it! Part of me was thrilled and part of me wanted to bow down before it yelling, "I'm not worthy!!!"
I'm not a religious man, but maybe the BMU (Big Man Upstairs) was trying to tell me something, like maybe, "Now practice! No more excuses!!", or maybe, "No more Celebs! Get yourself a Balladeer!!". I will definitely take His advice on the first one, maybe the second one too.
I sure hope this becomes a yearly thing. It would be great to see everyone a year from now. Until then, I promise to add some more chords to the three I already know, and who knows, maybe I'll join you guys on stage next year (bring ear plugs!).
Thank you soooo much! You were all great! Stay happy, healthy, and "plugged in" (or unplugged)!!!
Until next year,
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Location: NJ | Tony
the rule is "if you win the guitar you must use it to start off the jam" so you got away easy this year we will expect you to kick off next years jam and then the winner of 04 can go after you.
you got a year to practice get busy.
btw enjoy. It could not have happened to a more worthy person. |
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Location: Queens, NY | Thank you, Al! |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Tony
Congrats on winning, pick away and enjoy.
Al & Miles et al
It sounds like the get together was a huge success, I've never seen so many positive posts in our normally disputative social group. I'm sorry I missed it, but travelling hasn't been easy, but I am enjoying it from hearing about it and hope that another one can be in the works.
It looks like we never got the cheap transportation for the western contingency that we worked on with burros and mules. My grandson is rounding up a bunch of US Army surplus camels in Kuwait, so we will probably make it the next time, but we need a 6 month advance notice. My grandson is getting an excellent deal on used camels from two young guys named Uday and Qusay who are liquidating their inventory and are throwing in Camel drivers Tariq Aziz and a retired UN ambassador at no extra cost. They will deliver them to CA shortly with 10,000 Republican gaurd camel drivers whenever moodypi is ready. Another problem solved.
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | It truly was a blast, and very educational on many fronts. Pictures should be up shortly. Rick Hall is already working on trying to figure out how to top this next year, but as he will find out when he reads this... I don't think that is really his worry. As Lisa put it, "next year the other 1/2 of the folks who didn't show will be there, so he can almost do the same thing, but then year three he has to come up with something totally new because by then we will have all seen everything." Of course by then, we'll have 3500 people showing up, so I guess maybe that will be the immediate worry. :) |
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Location: NJ | bigger and better next time. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Everything doesn't always have to be bigger and better, something that is good the first time can be as good the second and be a complete success. Did our sex lives have to get bigger and better every time , or is it something we look foreward to as it is? Answer this at your own risk.
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Location: NJ | according to all the spam I get on my computer bigger is better.
Bailey
bigger and better is the AMERICAN way!!! God forbid if we do something smaller higher quality and more concise
BTW start training that burro NOW!!!! |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Sorry Al
The western group will be arriving in style in a bunch of SUVs that were rejected by Ariana Huffington. I AM LINING UP 100 1990 GMC and Chevy Suburbans with top racks, big V-8s, and air conditioning front and back and 40 gal gas tanks. We will travel in a monstrous, polluting convoy with all of our instruments inside comfortable air conditioned vehicles and the players kicking back in extreme comfort also. Ariana will precede us in a Chevy Nova (No Va in Spanish) screaming to the on lookers that she has found (from her foreign born, attraction to American millionaires) an un American convoy of American pickers, as long as she can get that Nova to run (unfortunately for her, it never made it off the garage of her 20,000 sq ft home with air conditioning and a heating system that strained the CA energy crisis.) We are on our way and barring an energy crisis of the type of Pres Carter, we'll be there for the next tour in comfort and damn the global warming.
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Location: NJ | no need to spare the ozone in pursuit of the OFC |
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A day I won't soon forget!!!
