A “Few of my Favorite Strings” Part I

This upcoming surgery to repair the Dupretyn's damage in my left hand, is as "major" to ME as open-heart surgery would be to other people.  Music has been a huge part of my life, and if it doesn't go well, my playing days are numbered.   If I'd chosen to do nothing, my playing days are numbered, so I'm caught between a rock & a hard place.

But the doc feels positive about it, and he's done a LOT of them, so I'm gonna look at it in a positive note.  My conversation with Lamont earlier tonight was uplifting as well.  He too is a musician and we can connect very well on these things, and a host of others.  We can truly "feel each other's pain."

So with that in mind, maybe it's time to reflect a bit.  I've got a lot of photographs to convert to disc, but THESE were taken on a disc camera a few months ago on the 22nd of June at the Bluegrass Festival up in Weiser.

Across the stage, Gib Jones, Bob Sisko, Spike Erickson, me, Mike Landers, Marilyn Landers and Irv Levine.

Gib has an excellent voice                         "Uncle Irv" takes a turn on one

Gib, Sisko and Spike                                         That's me "pickin' one       

Mike Landers singing one,  with  his wife Marilyn at the keyboard

Spike & I "exchanging fire" in the 95 degree heat out there that afternoon.  I was playing my old Gretsch resonator that day, and that's Bob back there on his Dobro.  We had a good time, and it was a good crowd.

I need to go through my music album and "transfer" some selected band shots over the last 4 decades, if my camera is capable of it.

In "Part II", I'll show you the "current music arsenal, and why I need to get this "hand problem" fixed.