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SPBGMA Convention

#81

Well, tell him to let you play his guitar

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#82

Iā€™ll go up to him and say Banjo Ben told me to tell you to give me your guitar.

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#83

This is the most fun place Iā€™ve ever been. Only Thursday night and itā€™s just covered in jams. And all the pros you admire are here too!

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#84

I got sick this week :joy:

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#85

I did too but I got better the day we got here :slight_smile:

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#86

Very cool for yā€™all to run into Tommy Emmanuel. I hope he didnā€™t demonstrate is percussion skills on your Martin! :slight_smile:

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#87

Excited for tomorrow, Iā€™ll be there from about 9 to 4, except for leaving for lunch.

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#88

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#89

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#90

I was finally able to play some good guitars the other dayā€¦ Those things sounded like cannons compared to mine, it was crazy :joy:

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#91

We told you!!

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#92

Iā€™ve believed you for at least the last 7 months or so :man_shrugging::joy:

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#93

I should have let you play mine!

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#94

I didnā€™t even think of thatā€¦ :joy: You said you couldnā€™t stick around long though.

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#95

Kenny Smith was going onstage :slightly_smiling_face:
It was fun to pick a few though! You really do like stuff fast even in real lifeā€¦

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#96

Clinch Mountain Backstep mightā€™ve been a little fastā€¦ :joy: I tried to kick off the others at a moderate pace though. Maybe it was still too fast :man_shrugging::grimacing: We didnā€™t even know the Kenny Smith thing was happening, Lucy asked if we were going to it and we were all clueless and just kinda stared at herā€¦ Sorry about that @Lucy_L :rofl:

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#97

It was in the ticketed section so thatā€™s probably why. Whatā€™s fun about SPBGMA (as you experienced) is you can enjoy a day jam-packed with music, jamming, instruments, and friends just out in the lobby and hallways. Sometimes thatā€™s where the best music happens anyway! I didnā€™t get to do AS much hallway picking this time with all the band showcasing and competing we had going on. But SPBGMA is a blast regardless of which way you experience it! We were excited to win 6th place! :smile:

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#98

It was so much fun, one of the best days Iā€™ve ever had. It was awesome getting to meet yā€™all! Itā€™s so weird seeing people youā€™ve talked to online in person. I spent most of the day with the Strangs N Such folks and Aubrey, I talk to them on discord a lot so that was super cool. The jamming was so fun, especially when I was forced to improvise. I really wish I could jam more often, I think it would really help me improve faster. I got absolutely destroyed by a 12 year old banjo player, that was embarrassing :joy: That kid was improvising with melodic triplet Pikelny style licks and I was just playing standard stuff :rofl: It was great motivation though.

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#99

And when you spend even MORE time on the banjo, this wonā€™t bother you at all.

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#100

Working on getting some SPBGMA videos on my channel. Of course I didnā€™t film nearly all the fun. Lots of people said this yearā€™s SPBGMA was like a comeback; back in the old days they would have massive crowds apparently, and it was just huge this year - much bigger than last year! The awards show crowd was enormous. Rhonda Vincent singing with Dailey & Vincentā€¦ unbelievably flawless. Some of the best live music Iā€™ve ever seen! The band contest was so much fun - some of the most fun people to be around, all cheering for each other, making each other laugh, rooting for each other, jamming together - itā€™s just the best. It was great to stay right there at the hotel, since the nights got late!! Weā€™re back home now. Such an incredibly inspiring and exciting week! :notes: I highly recommend that anyone whoā€™s never gone, GO next year!

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