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A very merry Christmas to you too.     

I usually don't listen to that type of music either Jim, but I'll agree that it's well done and seemed to be an ideal  holiday song for the  "Metalizer"

Ken     

Never been thrown out of a band, although I have walked away from a couple.  I have been thrown out of a bar before if that counts. And I also remember being thrown out of a strip joint in Daytona Beach once.       

Hmmmm........ I always thought that applying liberal amounts of alcohol to my body to kill germs (internally of course) and paddling, hiking, camping and fishing would not only improve but extend my life. A wise old man once told me that God does not count days spent fishing against you - every day you spend fishing is another day you get to live longer.  And now to find out that 40 years of writing songs has also been good for me........ Look out Methuselah, you might have some competition

DE     

Ba ck in '77 when my buddies and I began to paddle serious whitewater, we planned a trip on the Chattooga (river that Deliverance was filmed on). As we had never paddled it before, three of us "scouted" the river by going  a day early and running the river with an outfitter in rafts. One of the raft guides had been one of the guides hired to haul cameramen, gear, etc on the river while the movie was filmed. He said most of the scenes were filmed on class II-III rapids, but the scene where Burt goes over the waterfall and breaks his leg was filmed on the upper river where paddling wasn't permitted.  According to the guide, a dummy was thrown in the river above the falls and filmed going over it. When the crew reviewed the film it looked like a dummy going over the falls. They tried it several times but it never looked the way they wanted. Finally Burt, being the kind of guy he was,  volunteered to go over the falls himself.  He went over the falls and disappeared out of sight, pulled under the water and finally emerging downstream, nearly drowned and coughing and spitting water.  When they reviewed the film they said it looked just like a dummy going over the falls. 

RIP Burt 

Schweeeet!

DE

Hard to believe but a week has passed since I pulled into MKM and MKD's driveway and began a wonderful weekend of great fellowship, great music and great eats. As always, Jim and Amy were perfect hosts.  Their BYG is no place for a vegan - every meal included some form of pork they get from a local butcher.  Saturday morning's home-made biscuits and sausage gravy with bits of bacon in it was the best I ever had. And Saturday afternoon's pork butt barbecue with home-made potato salad and all the trimmings -Wow! It was Cris's and Uncle Joe's birthday so of course there was cake too.

It seems that Jim, Zurf, Robert (aka "Topdawg" or "da Judge") and I all have a taste for Kentucky bourbon so during the weekend there were several pauses to salute another " dead soldier" (empty bourbon bottle) as it was given a burial in the trash can.

Oh, and did I mention there was music? I logged somewhere around 12 hours in the "circle" over the weekend. MKM, MKD, Uncle Joe, Topdawg, JoeyJoeyJoey, Zurf and I took turns and were occasionally joined by MKM,MKD and JJJ's offspring.  We played 'til after midnight Friday and after 3 AM Saturday night. I headed home Sunday so I could help Jennifer with some projects. I took a "scenic" route so it took a little over 10 hours, but I still had a smile on my face when I walked into my house.

DE

We had quite an extensive canal system here in Ohio too Amy. Here in Ross county we had several locks and one of the canals connecting Lake Erie with the Ohio River ran through Chillicothe back in the early-mid 1800's. The lake in our city park was once a place where canal boats could turn around.

It's about a 9 hour drive for me so I plan to leave around 5 am. Looking forward to seeing and hearing everyone play again.

DE

I should be there early Friday afternoon and will hang around and aggravate  Amy and Jim 'til Monday morning.

The OV has been in a humidified case and waiting for you ever since you told me you were interested, and it'll be there unless you tell me otherwise.  Cool that you plan to have different set-ups with your guitars.  Have you thought about a Nashville tuned axe too?

I wish you lived closer.  For the past six months I've been attending Monday evening jams with with a bunch of old gospel and country pickers/singers that used to play in local groups and did some touring years ago. (At 68, I'm one of the youngest that attends)  We play for about 3 1/2 hours at a rec center, have coffee, donuts and bean soup/spaghetti/pulled pork or whatever someone brings. A few weeks ago there were four guitars, two dobros, two banjos, two mandos and three fiddles although most times its about half that number.  Some of those folks can still belt out some strong vocals on them old gospel songs and the harmonies can be amazing at times.  I'm leaving for the jam in about an hour and I'm getting fired up just thinking about it.

DE

Oh, man - my brain is on a totally  different wave length Zurf.  When I read the title of your post the first thing I thought of was lust for a 20" smallmouth bass.........

Are you still interested in my Ohio Valley acoustic, or has the 23" scale micro-bass now went to the top of the list?

DE

Re-glued the bridge on my river guitar (Recording King- copy of a Martin) after carefully checking the dimensions against my real Martin 12 fret 000 size acoustic.  I found an epoxy which claims to hold at temps from 10 degrees F to 180 degrees F,  so it should hold up in any future camping/fishing adventures. Played it for about an hour, seems to be good as new.  Also used it to repair my paddle  and now need to make a better repair on my SOT.

DE