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thanks guys ..
i actually had a terrific night Friday :
I went to see Nash the Slash .. my favorite most life influencing musician since i was a kid .. My wife took me as a b-day treat ..
well, it turns out that he was a guest attraction at Ad-Astra - some Sci-Fi writer geek convention (Terry Brooks was there .. Ray Harryhousen was supposed to be there but he cancelled. Peter David was there - writer of many Star Trek novels - as well as Ed Greenwood ... the Forgotten Realms guy)
So to see Nash we had to get admission to the convention .. he was playing a live score to the silent classic 'the lost world'
So once we walked around a little - and saw all too much of the terrifying crowd there (middle aged sci-fi and fantasy geeks .. fat bespeckled balding men with vests, ponytails and tilly hats with some of the nastiest women i've ever seen all in one place - all EXACTLY like the comic book store guy in the Simpsons)
we decided the safest place to be until Nash's show started was in the hotel lounge to have a few drinks ..
after a bit NAsh was in there (not many people know what he looks like without the trade mark invisible man bandages he always wears when playing.
so i went over and said hi - and we chatted for about 30 min before he had to go change for his show (we'd exchanged emails a couple of times and we were introduced at the festival of fear so I'd met him before .. but i was still thrilled)
so as we're leaving to get decent seats he says .. come on back after the show - i'll be here ,, selling tshirts and CDs. etc ..
so we did .. and he calls us over to sit at his table where we proceed to chat for an hour or so until we had to leave ..
it was a memorable night ... super amazing, cool, smart, articulate, friendly guy...who is not only a Canadian music icon, but also has stories about all the others ...
(He is big still in the UK - he played with - and toured with Gary Neuman at one time ..)
it would be like someone here getting to sit with Kurt Cobain(alive), Eminem, Alice Cooper, or whoever the hell it was who's music shaped your tastes at a young age ..
oh .. and i finally got a nice picture of his skull mandolin ...
some day - i'll ask if i can get a pic while holding it.
i'd better be wearing rubber pants the day that happens !!
this isnt my picture below .. its a closeup from the cover of his album :American Bandages
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