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Location: Jet City | Had an excellent evening out last night watching Al play. Sorry, no Ovation content here as he only played a Les Paul and a nylon. Al did re-autograph my AD Custom Legend though. Sound check... 
GUMBI! 
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Location: south east Michigan | I dunno Damon.
You sure get some great access.
I don't get it.
You sure don't look like the typical groupie.
I wish I had a chance to attend a WHO concert with you.
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Location: Jet City | Slipkid - 2016-06-10 3:36 PM I dunno Damon. You sure get some great access. I don't get it. You sure don't look like the typical groupie. I wish I had a chance to attend a WHO concert with you. . rock on. I can be quite the fanboy groupie at times. Here's my favorite from this year... Left to right: Zakk Wylde, Steve Vai, Me, Yngwie Malmsteen, Nuno Bettencourt, and Tosin Abasi. With the exception of Abasi, all have been huge guitar heros of mine over time. 
Speaking of The Who, I met Entwistle once in Dodge City, KS of all places. He was touring as The John Entwistle Band. Here's an excerpt from one of the band member's journal I found on the web years after: Day 3
Bobby and I started our day at noon and began by looking for more performances to transfer. We were joined by John around 2 and spent the rest of the day choosing the rest of the tracks. This is very hard because you can listen to the 1st 3 ½ minutes and everything’s great then all of a sudden someone plays a blaring clam and that’s it for that version. So its on to the next and so on and so on until your ears are bleeding and your head is splitting. Just when you think you’ll go mad from it all and it looks like you don’t have a track that will work….. you hear the one that kicks you in the *** and you say…"see, I knew it was this one." As we were going through the different shows we came upon the show from Dodge City. I remember Dodge well. John is a major cowboy enthusiast so we had to make a trip to the legendary Front Street to see the "old" Dodge and of course Boot Hill. It was cold that day which didn’t help when we were reading the grave stones of buffalo hunters that had frozen to death. So here we are listening to the Dodge show. Now I must tell you that there were not a lot of people at this show. It was a big venue but there was no advertising so there wasn’t much of a crowd. Why play a gig like this you ask? The reason is that we were recording each show for the album. We like to play 5 or 6 nights a week. If we take too much time off the band gets cold so we wanted to keep playing no matter what. We had a bunch of missing dates in our schedule that were supposed to be filled. The dates never came in and here we are in the middle of the country with a giant hole in our calendar. So we decided to contact an agent that we met earlier in the tour and asked her if she could find us some gigs to fill in the holes. Some of the best performances were at these shows so we are very glad we played them. Since there were so few people at this gig we were fooling around a lot on stage and we were saying some pretty funny stuff. There were these 2 guys at the show that were simply out on the edge of sanity. One guy was jumping up and down totally out of time with the music. He had his arms down at his sides and it made him look like a spawning salmon. The other guy would run across the room at full speed and then collapse by relaxing his entire body and slide across the floor in front of the stage until he skidded to a stop. We were just about crying as this was happening. The funniest thing is that when we were listening to "Had Enough" in the studio everyone on stage was laughing so hard that we couldn’t sing our parts. When we muted the vocal tracks everything sounded normal. We were playing the same as we always played but when we added them back in it sounded like we were laughing over a music bed or something like that. We just couldn’t sing. I remember that John was so into playing that he didn’t notice all of this strange behavior. Then when he looked up he thought we were laughing at him for some reason until he saw the spawner and the sprawler. Then he too joined the laughing fit we were all having. Well enough of that. When we finished work later that night Bobby made a traditional Irish meal of colcanon & gamon with his wife Mia. We sat in John’s dining room and enjoyed some fine food and had a few laughs. Later we were joined by Nicki & Helen. They are friends of John’s and Lisa’s so its into the bar to tell stories and have a little party.
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Location: moline,illinois | Damon67 - 2016-06-14 2:44 PM
Slipkid - 2016-06-10 3:36 PM I dunno Damon. You sure get some great access. I don't get it. You sure don't look like the typical groupie. I wish I had a chance to attend a WHO concert with you. . rock on. I can be quite the fanboy groupie at times. Here's my favorite from this year... Left to right: Zakk Wylde, Steve Vai, Me, Yngwie Malmsteen, Nuno Bettencourt, and Tosin Abasi. With the exception of Abasi, all have been huge guitar heros of mine over time.
Damon did you see the Generation Axe tour,I heard about that on the Ibanez newsletter but couldn't find a show near me.You've definetly get to meet up with all my guitars heroes recently,next thing you know you'll be telling us you went to Satriani'a G4 clinic.
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I never met Joe. I was an idiot as a teen when my friend Jerry gave me the number of 'this dude' in Berkeley who was an awesome teacher. He told me the hourly cost, and I laughed him off... It was Satch. That along with not investing in Starbucks when they went public are a couple of my biggest regrets.
AND, not only did I have the pleasure of watching my Raiders kick some Bronco *** sitting next to Elginacres, but he's even hung out at my house here along with his wonderful Original Adamas Slothead! Both he and that guitar have probably played in front of more people than all the other dudes up above combined!
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Damon67 - 2016-06-15 5:44 AM Speaking of The Who, I met Entwistle once in Dodge City, KS of all places. He was touring as The John Entwistle Band. Here's an excerpt from one of the band member's journal I found on the web years after: Day 3
Bobby and I started our day at noon and began by looking for more performances to transfer. We were joined by John around 2 and spent the rest of the day choosing the rest of the tracks. This is very hard because you can listen to the 1st 3 ½ minutes and everything’s great then all of a sudden someone plays a blaring clam and that’s it for that version. So its on to the next and so on and so on until your ears are bleeding and your head is splitting. Just when you think you’ll go mad from it all and it looks like you don’t have a track that will work….. you hear the one that kicks you in the *** and you say…"see, I knew it was this one." As we were going through the different shows we came upon the show from Dodge City. I remember Dodge well. John is a major cowboy enthusiast so we had to make a trip to the legendary Front Street to see the "old" Dodge and of course Boot Hill. It was cold that day which didn’t help when we were reading the grave stones of buffalo hunters that had frozen to death. So here we are listening to the Dodge show. Now I must tell you that there were not a lot of people at this show. It was a big venue but there was no advertising so there wasn’t much of a crowd. Why play a gig like this you ask? The reason is that we were recording each show for the album. We like to play 5 or 6 nights a week. If we take too much time off the band gets cold so we wanted to keep playing no matter what. We had a bunch of missing dates in our schedule that were supposed to be filled. The dates never came in and here we are in the middle of the country with a giant hole in our calendar. So we decided to contact an agent that we met earlier in the tour and asked her if she could find us some gigs to fill in the holes. Some of the best performances were at these shows so we are very glad we played them. Since there were so few people at this gig we were fooling around a lot on stage and we were saying some pretty funny stuff. There were these 2 guys at the show that were simply out on the edge of sanity. One guy was jumping up and down totally out of time with the music. He had his arms down at his sides and it made him look like a spawning salmon. The other guy would run across the room at full speed and then collapse by relaxing his entire body and slide across the floor in front of the stage until he skidded to a stop. We were just about crying as this was happening. The funniest thing is that when we were listening to "Had Enough" in the studio everyone on stage was laughing so hard that we couldn’t sing our parts. When we muted the vocal tracks everything sounded normal. We were playing the same as we always played but when we added them back in it sounded like we were laughing over a music bed or something like that. We just couldn’t sing. I remember that John was so into playing that he didn’t notice all of this strange behavior. Then when he looked up he thought we were laughing at him for some reason until he saw the spawner and the sprawler. Then he too joined the laughing fit we were all having. Well enough of that. When we finished work later that night Bobby made a traditional Irish meal of colcanon & gamon with his wife Mia. We sat in John’s dining room and enjoyed some fine food and had a few laughs. Later we were joined by Nicki & Helen. They are friends of John’s and Lisa’s so its into the bar to tell stories and have a little party.
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