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Location: 6 String Ranch | I am arranging a 3 day guitar clinic on Amelia Island March 23-25 featuring Mike Dowling (www.mikedowling.com)
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | what level, Bill? |
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Location: NJ | Amelia is slightly above sea level.
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by Jeff W.:
what level, Bill? Jeff, Let me know if you're going. I'll go if you will. I wouldn't want to be the suckiest player there.
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Location: Tennessee | Originally posted by Tupperware:
Originally posted by Jeff W.:
what level, Bill? Jeff, Let me know if you're going. I'll go if you will. I wouldn't want to be the suckiest player there.
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Location: 6 String Ranch | intermediate. perfect for you guys. come on! |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by Tupperware:
Jeff, Let me know if you're going. I'll go if you will. I wouldn't want to be the suckiest player there.
Dave I'll have to start intensive mouth exercises... |
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Location: closely held secret | Remedial level might be more appropriate. |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Originally posted by Jeff W.:
I'll have to start intensive mouth exercises... [/QB] Nope. Ain't gonna do it. |
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Location: NJ | I noticed on Mike's webpage that he'll also be appearing at NAMM (sponsored by National).
Wish I could make it . . . |
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Location: PDX | Cool. Thanks for the link cwk2
He's going to be doing a clinic in Portland earlier in March. Probably brought in by Mark Hansen, who along with Mike and Doug Smith (another Portlander) won a grammy for Pink Guitar.
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Location: ranson,wva | i read on another fourm that mike is having a clinic in portland...jason |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | He does quite a few during the year as well as play shows. He's a great teacher. |
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Location: SoCal | Me either. But I know a couple of guys from this side of the country who are going. I'll let them make the plans known..... |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Oh no Moody, I'm not biting. You're not setting me up again for some double maine lobster fest ...
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Location: NJ | Y'gots t'get the Special "Shwimp" dish . . . |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | y'gots t'start writin n'glish 'gain.
Seriously Cliff, are you and Jason like identical twins that have naturally developed your own secret language?
I know I'm getting old. I can't understand what in the hell rappers are saying. The only words I recognize are ho and gun. I can barely follow reality TV. And now I can't even hold a written exhange with a close friend anymore. Help me ...
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Location: NJ | Hey! . . this is coming UP soon!
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Mike's going to be in NY later in the year - I'm trying to get the local guitar group here to sponsor a workshop.
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Location: Australia | ....I'd love to come but as usual it's a bridge too far
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I still have 4 solids from the OFC and three locals plus me. I got room for 4 or 5 more. It's going to be a great time.
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Location: SoCal | Bill, I'll go if you can make me a long term loan to finance it...... $200/day plus expenses only takes you so far. |
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Location: Australia | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
$200/day plus expenses only takes you so far. it was good enough for Jim Rockford ! |
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Location: Athens, GA & Gnashville | Wow! I just saw this. I want to do it...I need a couple of days to see if I can pull it off. Sounds great, Bill! |
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Location: NJ | I had just gotten my State TaxRefund, and I came THIS close t'just calling the airline, . . but something else (as it always DOES) came up . . .
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Location: Phoenix AZ | YBBD. Ya Betta Be Dare ....
The agenda, let's see ... we hang out in a beautiful place, learn some cool guitar stuff from a good teacher, hang with folks we know and get to meet some new ones. Booze, cigars, music, food, sunshine, scooters, kummer ...
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Location: Parrish, FL | I'd love to be there. I'll even be in FL, just north of Ft. Meyers and on vacation. Family commitments will have to take priority on this one though.
It would be great to meet you guys and have the opportunity to learn alot, but I'll have to pass. I've got some work to do before I'd consider myself even an intermediate player, but I'm sure I could get my moneys worth.
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Location: 6 String Ranch | SO...........
To bring this one to a close, it was a great weekend even if we made it through without Cliff somehow. Cliff, Bob ate your shrimp.
Thanks to Dave, Bob, and Al for making the trip down here. Thanks to the locals, Davis Turner, Guitar Store Mike, Cole and Brandon and Willie.
An extra Thanks to Mike Dowling for being a very patient and good teacher. I know we all learned a ton. The trick wil be to practice it soon and often so it doesn't evaporate. As Jason pointed out Mike does a lot of these and if you're so inclined, go to one. You won't regret it.
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Location: NJ | y'mean it was THIS weekend?????
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Add my 2 pesos: YES, this was a great experience. Mike is a really talented teacher and I know everyone in the clininc came away with some new tips, ideas, tricks, and a whole lot to practice. For me it was time VERY well spent. If you get the chance to attend one of his events you will not be disappointed.
The whole week long experience was wonderful as well. Met some great new friends around the island. What a wonderful place. Always assumed I'd retire to Boca Del Vista, might have to reconsider. Very cool place, again if you ever get the chance this is a great place to experience. Wife and I had a few days of vacation prior to the guitar clinic and we realized that this was actually the first vaction we have had alone without the kids in 23 years! Stolling on the beach, cruising on scooters, fishing, hiking around Fort Clinch, great little boutique shopping, some really good restaurants. Just a wonderful time.
A HUGE thanks to Bill for making this happen. He was a super gratious host and made everyone feel right at home. I suspect I have not seen the last of guitar-shop Mike, Willy, T-Ray and the rest. Also great to spend some time with the old OFC friends Al and Bobbo. Thanks for making the trip. Felt like a band of brothers.
Here's some links that might interest you. I imagine we'll have some photos and stuff to post at some point as well.
Mike Dowling
The Frisky Mermaid Bar
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Location: NJ | Well
months ago Bill sent me an e mail asking if he can promote the Mike Dowling climic on the OFC. I had no problem with it and I took the time to check out Mike's website and was really interested. A great player with a interesting background and his main focus is slide and fingerstyle guitar.
Well as many of you know I am not a fingerstyle player, really just a hack, so I did not think twice about going to the clinic.
As some time went by and some other e mails were circulated, Witko called me and tried to convince me to go. I still held that I am not a fingerstyle player and I just "mess around" on slide and don't have the time or energy to go any further with it. As witko does he can be very persistent.
After a bunch of phone calls and e mails back and forth although I thought "I could not afford the time or expense to go" he made me realize that " I could afford NOT the expense or time to go"
Another factor was an old college buddy moved to Jacksonville and I would try to meet him for lunch to relive old drunken days, bimbos and college professors.
I e mailed bill and asked him to send me some charts to learn so I did not feel like a complete dork in the class. He told me that Mike would take the class where he felt they should be after talking to us and finding out our interests. No problem then I said I would not bring a guitar but just observe. Bill insisted that it was ok he had plenty of guitars to use.
Well, after an interesting experience with a TSA agent and one of matt smith's home blown slides, I made it to JAX and was met by my old college buddy we had lunch talked about the old days and luaghed for a few hours.
later in the day met up with witko, bill, bob and mike.
thurs am the clinic started, witko, bob and I were late, apparently it takes much longer to prepare breakfast when grits are involved, I digress.
we get into the clinic room and mike is doing some turnaround in open tuning. wow, never learned these always wanted to sorta did them half/a**ed but what a cool thing.
next we tune to open D here is where it got tough for me. we started with slide and fingerpicking. new territory for me and something that always facintated me. Mike makes it look easy and has a very good way to go about teaching it.
(jeff w take note I realized as I was doing this that this is the key to playing all those richard thompson tunes you and I both love) although frustrating this was fun and interesting to learn.
i need more practice.
saturday started off with more d tuning and slide. Mike integrates the lessons with basic tunes and makes sure that all the skills are taught in context something that teachers are expected to do in the classroom all the time. being an x teacher I was happy for the good form.
by the time saturday afternoon rolled around my head felt like it was going to explode. Mike started on swing chords in standard tuning and this is a personal area that I need to work on. I really need this chord melody work and turnarounds but unfortunately my brain and my fingers were not cooperating. I started playing in half time just to form the chords and make the shapes. more practice was needed but somehow it just was not making sense to me. dimished this, flat 5 that, root, third, 5th, my head was spinning.
practice? no forget it I give up I will sell all my guitars.
That evening we had the priviledge to see mike play about a half dozen tunes and it was pure magic. what a player! what a great guy! what an inspiration! OK I will pick up the guitar again sunday morning and give it one last whirl.
as we came in that morning I asked mike about the G9 chord without the root. I was confused as to how you can name the chord by a note that was not even contain the root. then he showed how we were playing a II V pattern and resolved it to a I DING DING DING DING DING DING. the light bulb went on. well I played the same sequence on barre chords. "I have been playing these chords all my life" I told mike except that I never played them on the inside 3 note freddie greene chords. later I figured out how to play these chords in all positions and not just the first. Now it all fit in together.
we ended the workshop with all of us playing some original tunes, something I refused to do the night before and did not figure I would do, but suddently I felt comfortable again once the synapses in my brain started firing and I played the tune I submitted for the last ofc cd.
the end came too quickly, Now that I was making sense of some of this I wanted more, but in actuality I really need to practice what I learned.
My theory has always been that if I suck in standard tuning why should I learn some open tunings....well, because there are just some sounds that I hear in my head that cannot be made in standard tunings and why fingerpick? if I want to learn those richard thompson tunes, then I need to do that.
chord theory always fascinated me because I know that i need to know that and I do it instinctively in some of my own wiritng and it would be good to know why and how to explain it to others.
I also realized that I have not really learned any guitar for a long time. I learn songs and chords and notes to fit certain pieces of music but really there is not any theory or new things going on and I need that for my personal growth. we all get stuck in a rut with our playing and sure life gets in the way, jobs, relationships, family, construction projects, but as musicians we really need to grow and learn new things.
although I had 8 hrs sleep and am home, I still can barely keep my eyes open. I have some instruments to pack up and send etc today but I really think i am going to go upstairs pull my national out of the case and tune it to open D and just practice that alternating bass line....
thanks to Mike for some great inspiration and lessons, to my new friends mike, davis, branden and cole and old friends bob and witko. special thanks to bill, always the gentleman, gracious and hospitable. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | WOW, Al that has got to be the longest message you have ever sent!
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Location: Bluffton, SC | We've got two clinics coming up locally in the next couple of months, Laurence Juber and Tommy Emmanuel, and, though I normally stay away from them, you've got me rethinking that, Al. Great review. |
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Location: NJ | A really good teacher really takes away all of the apprehension you might have about attending one of these.
At last years's OFC Tour, Al arranged to have MattSmith do a class. I was REALLY apprehensive at first, but Matt allays alot of those fears RIGHT off the bat, and it was easy going from then on.
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I'm bummed I had work conflicts. If I learn just one RT tune before I die, I consider my time here well spent and to have a good teacher toward that end, well, as I said, I'm bummed I couldn't make it...
I'll hit you up for some tips Al at the tour...
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by cliff:
A really good teacher really takes away all of the apprehension Yeah, Mike just takes this in such stride it makes everyone comfortable. He'll just tell you to put your slide on and take a few licks, then kick it over to someone else. At one point he kicks it to me and says "OK Dave, SING a verse." Talk about apprehension! But it was totally cool. Dave |
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Location: Tennessee | Not much to add to Al's Epistle, except to thank Bill for the hospitality and getting the whole thing set up. Mike was a great teacher, and never once let on that he was disgusted with my total lack of ability. I've got a whole new set of good fundamentals to completely mangle, but I'll have a lot of fun doing it. I saw and listened to an incredible array of guitars. All I could think was, "someday ...".
I was really nervous to go to the clinic at first, which accelerated after listening to Bill and Davis play/jam at O'Kane's on Thursday night. But once we got into the semi-circle, it became apparent that we were all learning new things and everyone started from the same zero point. That was cool. Naturally the real players often progressed faster than certain yours trulys, but if anyone is apprehensive about going to a clinic, don't be. Everyone is there to learn and sometimes you'll find yourself catching things faster than the real players.
Everyone that was involved ... my gratitude and thanks for making it such a great weekend ... Bill, Lorraine, Mike and Jan Dowling, Joe at the Florida House, Dave (it was nice meeting Julie), Davis, Cole, noodler Brandon, MIA Willie, Michael, and the Stevenson/VonTropp family. And of course Al, who tried to inject bad karma into everything, but was foiled when his luck was completely turned around after ordering a kid's meal for dinner. ;) Sue, if you're reading this, Al had a terrible time, the place was no good at all, and you were lucky you stayed back home in NJ.
Last thing ... Saturday night at The Frisky Mermaid, a guy named Ben Prestage played. What an incredible and fun show. In addition to playing both electric and acoustic guitars at levels I have rarely (if ever) seen, he also pulled out and played a "cigar box" guitar: quite literally, it is a cigar box with two broom handles for necks - one that had one bass string on it and the other with three guitar strings. The pickups were sewing machine bobbins with magnets, and were grounded to beer bottle caps at the back of the "bridge". He used a Sharpie as a nut in whatever position he wanted for the key of the song. And then this cat proceeded to play three parts on this guitar simultaneously (bass, electric guitar and slide guitar) while - at the same time - using his right foot to pound on a bass drum and his left foot on a pedal that drove a snare drum and high-hats at the same time. I kid you not. The guy was freakish in more ways than one. Here is his website: http://www.benprestage.net/. |
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Location: NJ | Originally posted by stonebobbo:
Not much to add to Al's Epistle,
hmmmm .....
gospel according to St. Al I like that!!! and I did have pancakes for breakfast!!!
And of course Al, who tried to inject bad karma into everything, but was foiled when his luck was completely turned around after ordering a kid's meal for dinner. ;)
if it wasn't for bad luck I would have none at all.... it just follows me.
Sue, if you're reading this, Al had a terrible time, the place was no good at all, and you were lucky you stayed back home in NJ.
just make sure you tell her I ate vegetables.
Last thing ... Saturday night at The Frisky Mermaid, a guy named Ben Prestage played. What an incredible and fun show. In addition to playing both electric and acoustic guitars at levels I have rarely (if ever) seen, he also pulled out and played a "cigar box" guitar: quite literally, it is a cigar box with two broom handles for necks - one that had one bass string on it and the other with three guitar strings. The pickups were sewing machine bobbins with magnets, and were grounded to beer bottle caps at the back of the "bridge". He used a Sharpie as a nut in whatever position he wanted for the key of the song. And then this cat proceeded to play three parts on this guitar simultaneously (bass, electric guitar and slide guitar) while - at the same time - using his right foot to pound on a bass drum and his left foot on a pedal that drove a snare drum and high-hats at the same time. I kid you not. The guy was freakish in more ways than one. Here is his website: http://www.benprestage.net/. |
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Location: Tennessee | Shrimp seems to be a key ingredient in nearly everything in and around Amelia. Being a shrimp lover myself, it was like being in heaven on earth. Had it a prepared number of different ways over the weekend (the Tapas restaurant was GREAT, thanks again Bill), but clearly my favorite was the shrimp cooked over a hot flame. |
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Location: NJ | Originally posted by The Wabbit Formerly Known As Waskel:
Al, someday we'll have to teach you how to use this website of yours. great
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Glad you all had a good time. Let's do it again.
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Location: NJ | just needed "you all" to read this again.
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Al, you bring up an interesting point. I found myself starting to use some interesting vocabulary. Sunday AM on the way to the airport I stopped at the Huddle House for a coffee.
Flo (waitress): "Hi'a sweetie"
Me: "I'll have a double tall skim latte"
Flo: "Y'all ain't from 'round here, huh?"
Me: "No, just traveling through"
Flo: "All by yer lonesome?"
Then before I could catch myself, out came "yup, the young-in's is home with mamma."
Well, maybe it'll help my southern guitar blues playing. Lord help me.
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Well that's not a good thing.....
You needs to get some ethnicity an locality in yo voice.
And another part I love,
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Location: NJ | Originally posted by cwk2:
And another part I love,
Up north if you call the waitress sweetie or sugar she'll slap you, (all that political correctmess bullsh!t), and down here she'll slap you if you don't. obviously you have not eaten in a NJ diner for a while |
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One of these days we'll t'get you an Lorraine t'come visit Cape May . . . |
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Everybody knows (except Floridians, themselves) that Floridians are completely insane... I've been to countless countries on this globe and Florida is by far the strangest place I've EVER been.... and I've been there a lot.
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Location: Tennessee | Originally posted by alpep:
just needed "you all" to read this again.
phrase of the weekend
"what's the matter? YOu don't like grits?" NB: Y'all is singular. All y'all is plural. I believe she said "y'all doan liak griats?" to Al. She was still bemused by my asking for sourdough toast. Doh! |
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Location: NJ | Originally posted by stonebobbo:
Originally posted by alpep:
just needed "you all" to read this again.
phrase of the weekend
"what's the matter? YOu don't like grits?" NB: Y'all is singular. All y'all is plural. I believe she said "y'all doan liak griats?" to Al. She was still bemused by my asking for sourdough toast. Doh! |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Originally posted by Jeff W.:
guess why I enjoy readin' Carl Hiaasen novels so much... It reminds you of a naked Demi Moore in Skin Deep? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | A pox on you Phil!
'Skin Deep' (my favorite, btw) was his first novel about a plastic surgeon (and who can for get "Chemo" the amputee with a prosthetic weed-wacker). 'StripTease' was the novel that spawned that horrible movie. |
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Location: NJ | here is the pic of us at the clinic
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Location: south east Michigan | Okay... I know Stonebobbo, Bill, Al, & Dave...
Who are the rest of the guys??? |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Back row:
Bobbo (who learned to play a Tak EF75 lefty)
Bill (it takes 3 hands to play the 2080 D-scale)
Davis (good player)
Al (dispite this photo, he DID play guitar)
Front row:
Cole (nice kid and his family threw a party for us)
Mike Dowling (with swanky sunburst mahog national)
Yours truely (that's my new Collings)
Guitar Shop Mike (with his '59 D28)
Missing was Willy and Brendon.
Notice the smile on my face due to the Collings. I obviously hadn't paid for it yet.
JEEZUZ, that was a fun time !!!
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Don't mean to hijack the thread but this just has to be asked - Is anyone else concerned that, because of Dave and Moody's apparent wanton and reckless disregard, cheesy tableclothes are going to be named on the "soon to be extinct" list any day now?
Just askin'... |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | As a long haired hippy freak slothead owning graphics artist once said ... Bite Me.
For the record I only own 3 cheesy tablecloth shirts.
Dave |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Man...he sounds like a cranky ol' bastid. :D |
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Location: NJ | bite me. |
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Location: NJ | that pic reminds me of a real good time |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | It was Al, Don't you remember? We still had a good time even though the weather was so bad outside. |
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Location: NJ | absolutely horrid weather. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Terrible, make sure you tell Sue. |
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OT: Mike Dowling Clinic