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Haven't seen Sam or Gary here in a while, hope all is well with them.
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Or Alan (Guitarman)................
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 I think we oldsters step out from to time for some "fine tuning". It is summer too. Lucky are those who can get away for a while. I do share your concern though. Ian 
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Gary weighed in relatively recently on a tech issue. I'll see whether I can look in on Wien Sam.
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Sam is pretty ok. I have contact with him.
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I'm OK, folks. Thanks very much for the concern. These are very hard times for me and I have a lot of problems of my own going on at the moment but I have been to 2 music festivals this Summer and am actively involved in: setting up the First Vienna Folk Club; setting up an artist management agency; and starting to organise a music festival for next year, hopefully with sponsorship. On the positive side, I have been back to England twice this year and away on several trips elsewhere. Now I have even been invited to Nigeria by the ex Minister for Arts & Culture, an old school friend of mine, all expenses paid. I must admit though, sometimes even I wonder where I have gone to  but I assure you that I have NOT forgotten you and often wonder how you are all doing. My humblest apologies for my abscence. I trust all is well with everybody? Thanks very much once again Regards to all God Bless
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"When we overcome adversity, we are sucessful." Sounds like you are being sucessful - keep it up.
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Now I have even been invited to Nigeria by the ex Minister for Arts & Culture, an old school friend of mine, all expenses paid.
Hi, Sam -
Did you get 50,000,000 dollars in the deal?
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No, John, I did not. The ex minister for Arts & Culture really is an old school friend of mine. We were at Harrow School together back in the '70s. I'll tell you a tale though - an ancestor of mine was Field Marshall Sir Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough and he was from Limerick in Ireland. Well, he found this old song in Limerick and took it into battle... It went on to become the song of the US 7th Cavalry. Gary Owen . Ironic eh, that I should be a musician, whom nobody has ever heard of, and yet a warrior ancestor could take a song and make it a worldwide hit? Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZTQ0C8dxx0&NR=1Ironic, too that I should also be an equestrian. A song goes a loooong way, my friend. A song goes a loooooong way...
Follow That Dream Sam Karaoke King -------------------- Turning that corner again - I have to keep following that dream, no matter what
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Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZTQ0C8dxx0&NR=1
Ironic, too that I should also be an equestrian. A song goes a loooong way, my friend. A song goes a loooooong way...
Maybe true, but General George Armstrong Custer, might disagree.
(Sorry, that's what I always thing of when I hear Gary Owen. Our little band plays it once in awhile)
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Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZTQ0C8dxx0&NR=1
Ironic, too that I should also be an equestrian. A song goes a loooong way, my friend. A song goes a loooooong way...
Maybe true, but General George Armstrong Custer, might disagree.
(Sorry, that's what I always thing of when I hear Gary Owen. Our little band plays it once in awhile)
Stan
Stan, here's how Custer and the 7th Cavalry got hold of it, at least according to Hollywood:
They Died With Their Boots On
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Thanks, Sam. I really enjoyed that. We just did another tune, in community band, known as the "Gallant Seventh" by Sousa. Thankfully, Custer didn't get the entire 7th wiped out. In another band I'm in, We start rehearsals today and "Gary Owen" is on the list.
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Thanks, Sam. I really enjoyed that. We just did another tune, in community band, known as the "Gallant Seventh" by Sousa. Thankfully, Custer didn't get the entire 7th wiped out. In another band I'm in, We start rehearsals today and "Gary Owen" is on the list.
Stan
Remember me and Field Marshall Gough when you play it!
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Sorry, I haven't been here for a while. I haven't really been musically active lately, unless you consider the crack of a .22LR round going downrange to be music to your ears. I do!  I've been spending a lot of time on a forum devoted to Rimfire guns, and not too much here. What time I have, instead of in front of a keyboard, is spent behind the trigger of a couple of fine rimfire rifles, and one that's giving me a bunch of grief. As winter draws near, I'll have less time, or inclination, to spend outdoors shooting (and freezing my butt off) so you'll see me more. Gary
I'm blessed watching God do what He does best. I've had a few rough years, and I'm still not back to where I want to be, but I'm on the way and things are looking far better now than what they were!
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I haven't been here for a while. I haven't really been musically active lately, unless you consider the crack of a .22LR round going downrange to be music to your ears. I do!
ABSOLUTELY.
Along with the smell of the cordite.
And always wear ear protection when there will be the repeated concussions of target shooting, so you can return to the music enjoyment and still HEAR it...
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Good to hear from you Gary!
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Thank you, Bob! Mac, I do wear hearing protection, required on our range. For the most part, I'm using those foamy things. However, using .22 standard velocity and sub sonic velocity ammo is surprisingly quiet. Most of the shooting I'm doing is after work, and there are only one or two other people on the range, if any at all. The weekends are a bit different, since you get everything from .22 all the way up to .30 cal or larger on the rifle range, and up to .44 mag on the pistol ranges, and those are loud. I have the muff style protectors also, and will wear them when someone next to me is firing a large caliber rifle, but they interfere with my cheek weld, so I prefer not to use them. My new favorite toy is a government surplus Kimber 82G single shot competition .22LR. For $400 plus $23 shipping from the Civilian Marksmanship Program, it is the most accurate rifle I've ever shot. I've just gotten Matt Finley's friends CD, Tomas Martin Lopez. If you haven't heard this CD, check it out on CD Baby. Matt wrote 8 of the songs on it, and he's working on a Music Minus One idea that I'm helping him with. I need to find a song that I'm comfortable with to work on, but the album is just great if you like Latin music. Highly recommended, and Matt did a great job on the songs on the album. Gary
I'm blessed watching God do what He does best. I've had a few rough years, and I'm still not back to where I want to be, but I'm on the way and things are looking far better now than what they were!
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Hi Gary. Nice to hear from you. My range days stopped when I retired from law enforcement. If you and Matt develop any music minus one stuff, in the latin genre, I'd most interested. I'm always buying playalong stuff.
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Gary, thank you so much for the great review! I wrote all the 8 songs in BIAB. One of the great things about BIAB is that I can write a bossa or samba, but change it to a Latin jazz piece with very little effort, as I did for this project. The amazing pianist, Bill O'Connell (pianist with Dave Valentin) wrote three other tunes and we split the arranging.
Stan, I asked Gary to be sort of a beta tester as I decide what to produce and set pricing. I know Gary likes the genre, and always tells it like it is. Stay tuned.
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