Post #280665 by Luckydesigns on Wed, Jan 24, 2007 7:55 AM

Hey Jeff,
Yeah, I really wanted to go but being a little hung over and super tired from walking all day, I just couldn't pull it together.

On Sunday though, I saw Brian Lombeck and Thom Bresh (Merle Travis' son) playing the most amazing Joe Maphis style guitar together. They both played at Deke's thing the year before and the night before. Brian Lombeck is that super fast flat picker. So I'm standing there watching them and Stevie Wonder comes walking down the isle by the booth that they are playing at. As he and his entourage turn the corner away from the booth that we were at, we could see Stevie start to bob his head to the country picking. Maybe ten minutes later, they all come walking back to where we were and Stevie makes everyone stop so he can listen to the guitars. Pretty rad. I'm not a huge Stevie Wonder fan or anything but I could feel this aura off of him... Such an immense talent. I could also see the two phenomenal guitar players struggling to keep the song together in front of the legend. The song ended and Stevie went crazy. He loved it.

I did actually come back on Sunday to try and buy one of those new Danos. Unfortunately, they were sending all of the samples out to Germany for another music industry convention the next week. Otherwise, I probably could have scored one for a couple hundred bucks. Damn. They were really cool.... At least I got that '66 Harmony later that day.

Yngwie would make me laugh too. That guy can really play... just the wrong scales at the wrong speed. Kinda like that Swedish cowboy that we met at the Boss booth. Remember that guy?