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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | I'm sitting here listening to my iPod and digging the cool tunes: all of a sudden, here's Matt Smith from the Chop Shop CD playing "As Tears Go By"...guitar, mandolin, slide guitar: it's just beautiful...
And it made me think how fortunate we are to have been able to have Matt come and showcase his awesome talents for us at Amelia and at the NJ get together...and to try to teach us in the process of making us laugh and enjoy our collective selves...
Matt, thanks for your music and for encouraging me to pursue my music; and I am sure others as well...
As much as the sessions were famtastic, the jams w/Davis and Co. were simply off the charts...some of the very best I have ever heard...
So, again...Thanks Matt! We are better for having crossed your path! |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Matt's ability to teach 'thumb strummers' up through experienced players while entertaining and holding everyones attention is absolutely remarkable!  |
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Location: Nashville TN. | He is soooooo under rated.
He better than many so called guitar heros |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Only under rated by those who don't know him.
If you read his bio and see who he has done sessions with, the recording artists certainly know who he is. |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | Kudoes is also an understatement. Blessing, is closer-to-it. |
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Location: SoCal | Matt who? |
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Location: nyc area | Thank you to all of you, even moody for being such a unique wonderful community.... I am truly grateful to be part of the family! |
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Location: SoCal | Hey Matthew, that's why you're always invited to all the gatherings.... you're one of us, son!
(certainly not the snappy way you dress, altho' it does allow you to fit in with the rest of us....) |
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Location: closely held secret | S'ok, Moody... Matt's snappy dressing and personality usually makes him the focal point - taking the attention of the rest of us hackers. |
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Location: SoCal | Originally posted by The Wabbit Formerly Known As Waskel:
S'ok, Moody... Matt's snappy dressing and personality usually makes him the focal point - taking the attention of the rest of us hackers. Yup... |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | And then we'll always have the infamous escape from the Huddle House.....oh my..... |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Now that Matt has moved to Austin, where my in-laws reside, I have a reason to go down and obtain a private lesson now and then. Matt is sensational, not only as a musician, but as a clinician and teacher. More often than not, the truly gifted aren't all that good at teaching. Matt is the exception. |
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Location: SoCal | Matthew's just a good guy, period. Good to be around in a group, good to be around one on one. I'm happy to call him friend. But then that also describes my opinion of a lot of people in this madhouse..... |
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Cudo's to Matt