We are planning a party/rock concert for our 35th anniversary. Rick has always been a guitar aficionado. He recognizes guitar players on recordings. We've always known people in bands, and have several friends who are guitar players.
We recently went to see Blue Moon Fever. The guitar players in this group are people we've known forever. They've played in various bands over the years. The bass player was in theTexas Moon Band. The lead singer in that band, B.J. Hilliard, was Rick's cousin. We followed them around for several years and really enjoyed the whole "Outlaw" music scene. (We even went to one of Willie Nelson's 4th of July picnics, but that's a different story.)
Anyway, Rick thought it would be a great idea to have a party for our anniversary. One of our friends has 7 acres that he lives on, and he volunteered his place. We hired Blue Moon Fever. I'm trying to hire Land Mammals, my nephew's band, as an opening act. We made connections for cooking barbecue brisket. One of our long-time friends is a beer distributor, so we may even have a sponsor, just like a real concert! A lot of our other guitar-playing friends want to come and jam. We've arranged for a portable toilet and are booking a bounce house for the kids.
I think it will be a party to remember (and I don't even have to clean house!!)
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Well this sure sounds like a blast...shades of Lewisville Lake days maybe? Those days were such an unusual time but lots of fun. Talk about guitar players, my brother-in-law, Billy Cochran, who passed away four years ago was a fiddle/guitar/mandolin player for multiple bands in Nashville during his 30 year career including George Strait from Pearsal. He was the fiddle player for Tracy Lawrence for years and when he died he was with the John Michael Montgomery band. He started out playing guitar in a local band as a kid and he is the guitar on the song "looking for love in all the wrong places" but I can't remember who was the singer. Anyway, we all were shocked by his death and miss him terribly. He always had such good gossip about Nashville country and western singers. Tracy came to his funeral and has come to visit his grave out in Fairview. They were such good friends and it is such a sad loss of wonderful talent. Maybe Rick has heard of him.
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