Do they have hotel rooms at these "camp out" jams? I mean.... where do ya get a hot shower and a soft pillow? I don't own no tent ya know!
I'm about as camping challenged as they come. We've got a city boy right here!
Aww C'mon Tom .... Where's your sense of adventure
? I do have to admit a motel room with a hot shower and cable re-runs of The Beverley HillBillys and The Andy Griffith Show is mighty tempting sometimes but here's what I would have missed
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A cozy tent on the outskirts of tent-city in the shade of a large ponderosa pine looking out over a gorgeous lake 30 yards away ...
Waking up each morning after a solid sleep at a comfortable 55° F night-time temperature with the sunrise reflecting off the lake ....
Jumping in the cool lake for a swim followed by a cold shower and goosebumps .....
Firing up the backpacker stove, boiling water, and performing the morning black medicine ceremony and drinking stout coffee mixed with a good shot of O'Reillys Irish Cream ...
Making friends with the local gaggle of Canadian geese by sharing chunks of cantalope with them, watching the nesting pair of osprey on top of one of the baseball diamond's light poles and hearing their screee-screee calls as they soared over the lake looking for fish, seeing a nice whitetail deer come out of the bushes 30 feet away and saunter across the shoreline ....
Taking in some good stage shows and workshops during the day and heading back to the tent for a hefeweisen, snack and an afternoon cat-nap .....
Meanwhile back at the shows ..... Hearing someone to my right say "Are you buffalobob?" and then turning to see Keith & Deb Howard from England standing there. We had a good laugh. I first "met" them as internet friends at BGBP and then met them in person at Grand Targhee Festival 2 or 3 years ago. Deb is a bass player and Keith is a flat-picker. I'm amazed they recognized me. They flew into Seattle and were driving south and east to go to Targhee again and decided to stop at Blue Waters. Small World. Deb bought a Barry Bales instructional bass DVD and had it signed by Mr. Bales in person. The Howards are in a bluegrass band in the UK and will be opening for a couple of big acts later this year.
Then there's ..... Dragging the Kay around late at night looking for a bass-less jam only to end up listening to a group of 8 or 10 real-hot-pickin' kids aged 10 to 16 for an hour before sliding the bass back into the tent and falling asleep to good bluegrass background music ....
Motel
?? You don't need no stinking motel (with or without wheels)
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That's a real nice Gibson/Epiphone...did you happen to get the serial number or model number (my guess is a B-4). I could add it to the data bass ...
My Bad MollyKay
. I fell down on the job. I got excited when I saw the Epiphone badge but I didn't research far enough. I bet you are right but I can't confirm. They said it was a 1957.
I looked at the tuner plates for "Kalamazoo" .... but they weren't engraved like my B-5. I didn't look for the model number on the badge. I even looked in the f-hole at the tag but didn't see Kalamazoo or New York. Damn ..... Didn't get the number
. Maybe next year
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