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My my
wonderful "gang" of guitar pickers and music
lovers. It was especially nice to have three of my charter
OFGC members from 18 years ago in attendance: Chris Vickers, Dave
Sullivan, and the very accomplished Bob Cox. |
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What a
beautiful birthday cake. (Now, WHO rearranged those
candles???  ) |
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This is
me opening the many gifts I received from the "gang." |
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I was
given this awesome collage of all my guitar friends. Well, a bunch
of them. |
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Special
picture of me, Loren & Mark, and my best bud, Chaz Mechenbier. |
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Hey,
you can never have enough guitars! (Look at the
"colorful" stick on nails to use on my gigs...) |
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I just
loved seeing that picture of me with Mark/Loren & Chaz. |
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I
REALLY liked it! |
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This is
Chaz explaining to me that he really was the best picker in the
picture. |
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I think
we BOTH liked that picture. (I am going on and on about it,
aren't I.) |
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I
got a real nice picture of the pickers from a previous Pickin
Party. Left to right: Jerry Hyland, Jim Lafferty, Rex
Dickens, Tom Mathys, Dave Duncan, Jim Shiporski, me, Harley
McCabe, Jackie Lamuth, Dave Martin. |
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A
very heartfelt book of comments from everybody. |
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My
"lady", Julie Breeding, put a lot of time and effort
into the making of that book - and, getting it all around the room
for signatures - all without me knowing about it! |
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(Tommy
Emmanuel's "Eulogy" for Palmer ) |
A
special
friend - oh, and our reigning OFGC guitar hero! |
An awesome picture/video collage of
birthday greetings from folks in Palmer's musical life (ex wives
didn't seem to want to participate. )
Very special treats were clips from Loren & Mark, Adam
Rafferty, & Shohei Toyoda.
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(see
video)
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A huge
thanks to everybody for surprising me with this wonderful 75th
birthday party. A special thanks to Rob and Cindy Gardner
for putting a lot of leg work into the event, and to my lovely
"lady", Julie Breeding, and my children for their
love and efforts.
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