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Location: NJ | Has anyone spotted Russ? he was supposed to be in DC sometime around the 4th if I remember correctly and then cruise over to see miles and up to Jersey to see Cliff and I. Just curious if you have heard from him let me know... |
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Location: NJ | I sent him an email a couple of weeks ago enquiring about the location of his old studio in New Mexico as I wanted to check it out while out there on vacation (I just got back), but I never got a response.
Maybe he OD'd and has checked into AA (Adamas Anonymous) |
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Location: Jacksonville, Florida | What happened to Russ? I haven't seen any of his posts for months... |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Our lost Amigo had dinner with my sister and brother-in-law a short time ago and has headed back south-of-de-boarder.
Cisco, meybe we heer from heem soon, yes?? |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | That's good news dubyatoo, can we start your '04 presidential campaign now. I sense a winning moniker, BTW did you notice a New Mexico State guy just whupped Tiger. We are all Beeming and I hope Russ and all the rest of the Nuevo crowd join in the festivities.
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Location: NJ | Well isn't that sweet..... Russ blows off the east coast contingent and breaks bread with your sis and bro in law....I feel cheated.....wait till that amigo gets back on line....One good thing about teaching in the inner city is I learned many curse words in Spanish!!!! |
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Location: NJ | Al, I think we been "dissed"!
I'd liked to say I hope that he gets hassled at the border trying to get those guitars over, but that'll never happen....nobody smuggles shit INTO Mexico!!
Mebbe a couple udda guyz frum herein Joisey needa go down tadis Port Viagra (or whaddevah) an' "TAWK" ta him!!
Ya' heer?! |
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Location: NJ | Cliff
as they say in the vernacular we waz "dissed" and Russ "sleeps with the fishes" |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | You Joisey guys might give some thoughts to the the trail of unfortunates on the Mexican border who came down to teach the vatos a lesson in mafia tactics. They usually get stopped for running a stop sign and are never seen again. The FBI is over there in Juarez digging, looking for 200 missing people, they found eight. Sleeping with the fishies is one of the more pleasant ways of expiring in Mejico.
Quote from today's El Paso paper: "With the violent arrest of Isabel Arvide on Friday, the state of Chihuahua has added another journalist to a growing list of men and women who have paid a high price to practice their profession.
The national journalist and author of several books was dragged kicking and screaming from the Chihuahua City airport after an armed commando unit overpowered the two Mexican Federal Preventative Police officers assigned to protect her.
"The commando unit turned out to be Chihuahua state police officers who refused to show their badges when the federal offficers asked to see them...
"At the jail she was strip searched and held incommunicado for several hours before she was allowed to call her family and a lawyer. The charge? Defaming a newspaper publisher in an article she wrote last year alleging corruption on the part of Chihuahua businessmen and officials who denied any wrongdoing...
"Arvide wrote a book in 1996, "Muerte en Juarez" about her artist friend Heidi Slaquet's 1995 disappearance. Slaquet was to meet Arvide at the Juarez airport, but neither she nor her taxi arrived. The taxi driver was found dead but Slaquet is still missing."
Our mafia has a lot to learn from these guys.
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Location: NJ | Bailey I would like to remind you that just typing "joisey" is a major violation in my book..... |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | alpep
I have to apologize, that horse's head that arrived in an Ovation guitar box with a New Jersey return address must have been a mistake, I never ordered one.
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | BTW, I saw in the news that the house where the notorious Appalachin mafia meeting was held in the 50's was sold. Which one of youse Joisey guys sold it?
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Dang, I clicked on the wrong button, now I have to say something with the NJ mafia breathing down my neck. Russ, what do you think about the new Elite T? |
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Location: puerto vallarta, mexico | sleep with the fishes? horses heads? hell i haven't seen russ either. probably died in nogales.
actually, i think he had a pretty good reason for not making it all of the way back east. more like he was "disc"ed instead of dissing the "family". in fact i'm sure his parting words were "kathleen, please make sure my ovation collection winds up in the hands of true ovation fans". |
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Location: puerto vallarta, mexico | and cliffito--------you doubted me? and all that agression------you didn't start eating meat while i was gone did you?
and hey, dinner with bill's sister---------a really pleasant blonde artist who starts handing you killer guitars 5 minutes after you shake hands? and you get to take the guitars home with you!!! we invited 'em to dinnner again just to make sure it wasn't a pain med dream.
really guys, i sent kathleen on to dc by herself and i stayed in minnesota making benz payments for the local doctors as they made me a candidate for the elvis presley pharmaceutical achievment award. the details aren't worth getting into, unless you're curious. write me a personal note and i'll tell yu what not to do when you have a bad back. |
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Location: NJ | Ay! yo, Al!!!
I dunno bout dis "Russ Guy"!
Firs, he says he's comin' "out East" t'have a "sitdown" wid da boyz in da Jerzy crew (which, if I'm nod MIZTAKIN', haz da MOST guyz in da entire "organization" - but'chu wood prob'ly no dat bedder'n me), an 'e don show up! Notta woid!!
He don' evin drop a line "Ay, howd'a fugg'ya doin'..." No NUTTIN!!!
DENNN!!!...da bastid got da coulioonz t' come tru de area LOADED wid STUFF, an duz he SHARE??.....duz he show TRIBUTE??......duz he even stop an say "Ay!!...looka whud I gott heer!"?? NOOOOOO!!!!!! (a ma funghool!!!)
Now hee'z gottme tinkin' dat mebbe whenda weddah start gettin' cold out here, I oughta' mebbe ged onna plane an go out ta' "visit" wid'im out at dis "Porno Viagra" (or whaddevah da fugg idiz!) and perhaps have a liddle "sitdown" wid HIM!!!
An youcan bettcher sfooyadells it won' be no friggin' VIOLIN I'll be carryin' in dat case wid me!!!
Rezpecfully yawz,
"da big C." |
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Location: puerto vallarta, mexico | hey big cliffito,
now throw a coupl'a boca burgers on the grill and tip the mezcal bottle back till the worm starts dancin' on your lips and you'll feel better in no time. honest, amigo, i never made it east of the mississippi. i spent most of my "vacation" flat on my back eating hydrocodone like gum drops. bill's sister, lives in santa fe, and i was traveling with my ovation eclipse. the other ones are too good for road guitars.
so why didn't you pray to the virgen of guadalupe for my speedy recovery while i lay in pain for a month on my sons oak floor. by the way, i have a couple of violin cases with some new 12 shooters in 'em. and that ain't smoke amigo.
common down and we'll do some target practice. that is if amigo bailey hasnt put the fear in ya. don't worry, i know the good guys and the bad guys here (they're the same). |
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Location: RI. That small State out East | Russ... I'm glad it's just a bad back... The way you fell of this board I was squinting that this might be bad. Having spent 18 years in MN and the keyboard player of the clan still in the Twin Cities... I need to start telling you how to speak Minnesotan... Yea sure by golly, you betcha.
Watch Fargo the movie 3 times and it will set in.
I hope the back doesn't stay out for long.
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Location: SoCal | Jeez Russ, I'm glad you're home and alive (abet in pain), but I was about to make some money off this board when they hired me to find you.
Seriously, sorry to hear your back in out. I understand that one all too well. The good news is that if you're wife can prop you up in front of the computer, we can all hear about your new axes. |
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Location: puerto vallarta, mexico | sorry you didn't get the job to find me paul. there were a few days i was having trouble finding myself! |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Russ, Welcome back brother amigo. We missed your sorry borro.
Portcholaka! |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Amigos
Nobody needs to be scared off to visit where russ is located in the viejo empire. I'm here next to Whorez, the superhighway of illegal substances, headed for (IMHO) New Joisey and populated on both sides of the frontera with machine gun toting road ragers. All you have to worry about where he's at, is losing touch with the real world as you sink into a pleasure induced stupor of music, mescal, and mariachis, as I did a few times on the Baja penninsula some years ago. Except for cliff, most guys there carrying violin cases are mariachis, but I won't let envy creep into my postings.
Sorry about your back russ, that sure ruins a vacation trip fast. My stepfather some years ago, had a heart attack in Alabama on a trip with my mother from McAllen, TX to Ohio and had open heart surgery there, he survived but it sure upset everybody's routine. I sincerely hope that it's better and stays that way. Don't hoist any of those 200 pound amps, and lighten up all your guitars like you would a hot rod frame, drill holes through the necks and body and replace all metal parts with titanium including the strings. Replace the tops with balsa wood and attach helium filled balloons to support them on any gigs longer than 10 minutes. (I know I'm risking a charge of practicing medicine without a license, but I'll take the chance to help you out).
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Location: NJ | "....Portcholaka!...."
- As in the flowering plant? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | As in "Our feet are the same"
and "Or even dare she?"
Or Whadeva. |
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Location: puerto vallarta, mexico | you're right bailey. the border is a zone that isn't typical of either country and has the worst examples of what mexico is really like. where i live is really pretty laid back and safe. so if you bring that violin case you probably will only be offered a few gigs cliffito. and i dont mean the 1812 with a sawed off gat.
hey bill----what is the new signature about?
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Has anyone heard from Russ????
