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Location: NJ | This weekend is the philly guitar show, it is not in philly but actually in ft washington PA at the expo center.
If anyone is local stop on by. If you have any specific requests e mail me and I will bring them to the show. |
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Location: NJ | no one is going to be near philly? |
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Location: NJ | ". . All in All, . . I'd Rather Be In Philadelphia . . ."
- W.C. Fields' headstone |
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Location: Denver, PA USA | Maybe. A big MAYBE.
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Al, Keep an eye out for Mr Kummer. Rumor has it he'll be there. I'd like to go but have to help watch some neighbors drive a model A pickup truck out of their old store to the new store and consume a roasted pig to celebrate. Tough job but someone has to do it. |
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Location: SoCal | Ok Al. I'll come to Philly just to make you happy. Not.
Actually, I would if I could. Sounds like fun. |
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Location: NJ | No problem moody a real friend like playadamas would get there and phil wong would be distributing the controlled substances. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Al, great good luck in Philly, lovely town, Piasaki Helicopters used to have a factory there.
Somebody mentioned MODEL A and roasted pig, if I could go anywhere that's where I would be.
As usual, I will stay in the NM high desert.
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Bailey, Come on out to this Connecticut mountain top. (A joke by NM standards for sure but 1550' is big for out here) and we'll do the music for the pig roast/truck movin. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | "The Mountain Top Pickup Truck Movi'n, Pig Roast Rag"
Now if that ain't a song title, I just don't know what is. |
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Location: NJ | Last year, my partner and I played at a PigRoast put on by one of the local bar/restaurants we always play. In an effort to guard against the possibility of rain, they set up a small tent for shelter. The tent was big enough for three . . my partner Rick, . . . myself, . . . and the pig.
Being the only "non-meat eater" in the group, Rick and Chuck (the owner/chef) made sure that "Mona" (I named her) got the seat of honor right in front of me! It was an especially appealing seat to have as they hacked poor Mona up with a machete (the inside of my CBalladeer STILL smells like a pulled pork sandwich!). I had suggested inserting a quarter stick of dynamite up Mona's ass and giving everyone a fielder's mitt, but . . . .
Some of the "dinner music" consisted of PinkFloyd's "Pigs On The Wing (1&2)" and "Pigs", James Taylor's "Mona", and of course Mr. Harrison's "Piggies".
A pleasant time was had by all . . . . except of course, maybe Mona . . . . |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | Cliff,
Being the only "non-meat eater" in the group :cool:
...despite what other members are saying, I just Knew there was something I liked about you! :D
Early Vegetarians
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Location: NJ | Actually Tim, I'm more of a Vagitarian . . . . |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | ...uh,.... nah, nevermind.... :rolleyes: |
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Location: NJ | Honestly, Tim;
I don't eat meat or poultry (since 1973), but I do eat seafood. (Salmon IS my life . . . ).
Hey, Al!
How about posting some "details" (dates, times, location) on the show . .
Is there a weblink??
I'd come down, but I can't afford anything right now (same old story . . .). |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | cwkII
I love any mountain, we don't make fun of any of them here in NM, I am NOT a vegetarian, here in NM the natives bury the pig in a fire heated trench and it is ambrosia when done, called "carnitas", usually everything is eaten from head to haunch in tortillas, with the host's secret sauce that will cause most of us gringos to do a dance and sing "Green Grow the Lilacs", inadvertently, while searching for agua and igniting the shot of tequila in our hands with our breath. That is a tradition that is 200 years old here, and 150 years ago the baille would last for days and weeks, as time was not considered a thing to interfere with civilized enjoyment of life and preoccupation with acquisition was a mortal sin.
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Location: NJ | ft washington expo center
here is the link
why am I freaking out when I realize that they have not yet updated their website from the last show dates.
http://www.bee3vintage.com/Phily-NorthCarolina.html
june 26 27
look for the Adamas 1 and the elite with FLAMES |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Bailey, Now that's the way to have a pigroast! How far are you from Santa Fe? I know some people there. I'll bring the mountain, you get the pig and we can all have fun. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Wow, I wish I could go to philly.
In college we played for some friends who had a pig roast. A huge friggin' pig. The theme was hawaii 5-0. And it got played alnight long. It was like the blues brothers playing at that country bar, except we belonged. Finally, at about 11 one of the guys dressed up like a mauri, took a machete, chopped a watermelon in half , scooped out the insides, filled it with vodka and went amoungst the crowd, all dressed like tourists in hawaii, giving everyone a drink. Then the police came. The younger cop thought it was really funny and ridiculous, the older cop was disgusted. As things go these days, it was pretty tame. |
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Location: NJ | If anyone's looking for some light Summer "beach" reading, and is into food and humour, I highly recommend "A Cook's Tour" by Anthony Bourdain. The book is based on the accomanying FoodNetwork TV show, and documents(in some "explicit" detail) Bordain's trip to exotic locations (VietNam, Portugal, Cambodia, France, Mexico, Japan) in search of the perfect meal. While the TV show is good, the book shows how much of it was "sanitized" for viewers, and pokes sardonic fun at the whole TV process. The "bend" that this thread took reminded me of the chapter on Portugal where a pig features VERY prominently.
Lots of indigenous food(s), lots of laughs!!!
Sorry Al for going "off"(again :-)
Hope the Show's a good one!!!
btw: "Whaler's Cove" (or whatever the hell it is now) is calling . . . . . . . . . |
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Location: Toronto, Canada | I wish I could be there. I'd pick up two things:
1) An Adamas;
2) a Cheesesteak from Geno's in Passyunk...
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Location: NJ | I can take care of the Adamas part but Geno's and Pat's are for tourists |
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Location: Toronto, Canada | Originally posted by alpep:
I can take care of the Adamas part but Geno's and Pat's are for tourists
No doubt. We will talk about the Adamas upon your return, hopefully.
However, Geno's would still be better than anything we could get up here cheesesteak-wise...
:D
have a good show.
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Al
Gotta again wish you a great show, visited Upper Darby in the 50s with a soldier buddy that lived there and enjoyed it greatly, especially the trolly line connecting all those little communities.
cwk2
How far are we from Santa Fe? Not far in distance, but eons in attitude and sensibility, the "City Different" dwellers all are living in a past that doesn't exist even there. They live in those quaint old $500,000 adobes, while the real New Mexicans cut their grass and sweep their floors and live miles away in some colonia in mobile home parks. Here, we all live in mobile homes in some colonia except for the real New Mexicans, they live in east Las Cruces in $200,000 homes in neighborhoods that look a helluva lot like San Diego without the beaches.
Me, I live out here in a farm community and watch the chilies and cotton grow, called San Ysidro, patron saint of the farmer.
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Location: Central Oregon | Originally posted by cliff:
Some of the "dinner music" consisted of PinkFloyd's "Pigs On The Wing (1&2)" and "Pigs", James Taylor's "Mona", and of course Mr. Harrison's "Piggies".
Hey Cliff,
What about Kip Attaways 'Pig in a Blanket'?
"...I woke up where I did not intend to be,
between the sheets, with a pig, in a blanket."
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Location: NJ | another guitar show bites the dust..... |
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | Why Al, was the turnout not great?
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Great or not it's over and right about now I suspect that is the most important thing. |
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Location: NJ | Well trading was swift between dealers as usual. There were fewer exporters than usual and I suspect that had something to do with the dip in the yen this past week.
Attendance with the general public was lighter than usual. So light in fact, that after saturday many dealers pulled out. I have NEVER seen this at the philly show before. Tons of tire kickers and bottom feeders though. Which never make the event fun.
My amp repair guy brought me 6 amps and two of them took a dump as I was about to sell them, so that made it really stressful.
Pulled my back out taking a Fender twin out of the truck and that plagued me the entire weekend. Got home last night after the show, unloaded the truck, ordered a pizza, made a nice stiff rum and coke and fell asleep.....
like a said another show ....over... |
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Location: south east Michigan | Working trade shows is great fun.....for about the first three times you do it.
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Location: NJ | I started vintage guitar shows in 84 or 85 with the first New York guitar show. Looks like I am on my 20th year anniv of guitar shows.....the stories I can tell!!!!!
anyway, it is fun but it is also business and that puts it in a serious light.
I have met some great people, many famous people and made some very good friends over the years. I have also met some of the scum of the earth. |
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