Re: [Harp-L] SPAH Thoughts.....

Joe and Cass Leone <leone@xxxxxxxx> · Sat, 1 Sep 2007 13:43:33 -0400

On Sep 1, 2007, at 12:57 PM, Warren Bee wrote:
Well it has been a busy week since Ol' Milwaukee. It seems that  
many others

that attended have also been busy or have just elected to not share  
their

thoughts.

In my case, it has NOT been a busy 2 weeks. I am totally exhausted  
and am going through withdrawl. The recent buzz on harp-l,  
slidemeister, and off-list on my videos has me TOTALLY shocked,  
humbled and embarrassed. Usually not one to be short of words, I am  
speechless, and so have remained quiet. Only a Warren Bee could draw  
me out of the woodwork.
I know a few have and I really love reading other folks

perspectives, likes, dislikes etc. after an event that I have  
attended. I

also know that for folks that didn't attend it can old real fast.

Yes, it CAN get old really fast, and another reason for abstaining,  
but I have to thank a few people.
The last thing I want to do is make "you shoulda been there" posts.  
I understand that

many just don't have the resources or the time to hit a lot of the  
festivals

/ conventions.
This year I will keep it brief. I will also not mention any names of

attendees. I dread the thought of hurting anybodies feelings. Let's  
just say

I love 'em all!

Hurting people's feeling is not high on my list of entertainment  
value, and so I will only say that there are about 2 dozen standouts  
that I want to thank and you know who you are. There are about 75-80  
others who conspired to make THIS the best convention out of the 13  
that I have gone to over the last 16 years.
I DO have a few people whom I HAVE to mention:
1... 'The Amazing Randy' (Singer) for sharing his stage with widdle  
ole me. I won't forget this.

2... Saxy Michael Eloquent Peloquin for offering the very same....twice

3... Tall Paul Davies for, after 11 years of attending conventions,  
and a personal tragedy, he 'finally' got me up on stage at spah 2002  
Columbus. I was so nervous, I got sick, and almost didn't go on.

4... Bobbie Giordano who kept saying "You're better than these  
guys...get UP there".

5... Elizabeth for making me a  *star*  (sic)

4) The "sandbox" was wonderful this year. Diatonics, Chromatics,  
Chords &

Basses all getting along just fine.

I noticed that too. Gone were the: 'The bluesers are taking over'  
wisecracks. This always has hurt my heart, because the attitude of  
most of the attendees is a very positive attitude and I guess some of  
'those' people were absent this year, because I found a seamless,  
flawless melding.
I saw minimal attitude problems.

Me neither, AND this hotel was THE most acomodating of any I have  
been to. NO, NONE, NADA, NYET harassment of any kind.

Thanks again to the SPAH folks and the Milwaukee club for all of  
your hard

work.

I second that emotion. Time to shut up now..... smokey-joe

Peace, love and happy harpin'

WBee
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