Wow! what a fun week we had.
On Sunday our daughter Virginia came, and on Wednesday Steve Noonan and Michaelray arrived in Michaelray's roady van, traveling around doing gigs, here being one of them. Thursday Gary and Ralph came.
The gig in Rough and Ready was so much fun. Not a whole lot of people, but those there were a great audience. It's an old school house, really a cute place.
Dave Hall did the sound, great job as usual. Bob, Ralph, Harmonious Combustion, Cat Girton, Michaelray, Steve all performed. Other Paradoxers in the audience included Rob and Steve Scaff.
Next night, Ralph, Michael Ray and Steve did a house concert at Floyd and Joy's house. Some of you may remember them from last year's reunion. That was really fun I'm told. I didn't go, but Bob and Ginny did.
Monday we all, including Dave and Tara Hall, piled into 2 cars and had lunch in the town of Washington at a old hotel that has a deck overlooking the Yuba River, awesome place! Then we spent the rest of the day IN the Yuba River, what a ball! We all turned into little kids again, splishin and a splashin'.
The very most wonderful music we ever heard, however, came from our very own deck. What a wonderful group of guests we had.
Gary is a wonderful cook by the way. Neither Gary or Ralph ever sleep! We would all go to bed, and when we got up in the morning there would always be donuts or rolls or something magically appearing. We just had way too much fun!
3 comments:
Helen, I'm so sorry I missed it, but I was there in spirit!
Next year!
What I left out is every morning it turned into Ralph's job to put out peanuts for the Blue Jays and squirrel's.
Ralph got recorded all day on Tuesday, look forward to an outstanding CD from one of the greatest most talented musicians ever!
Diane, how was the Dirt Band concert? Thanks for the rescue again.
Helen, the concert was incredible. The Dirt Band really knows how to put on a great show -- and make it appear totally effortless.
The amazing thing is that, except for missing Bruce and Ralph's great voices, they really do sound very much the same as I remember them. Certainly as I remember them from the early 1970s. They sang Bojangles and the crowd went wild.
It was really a treat to be there and see them here, under the Big Sky.
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