Rick Crider
10-28-2003, 02:25 PM
You folks are just incredible. Just incredible. Thanks!!
NINE (!!!!) different threads about this event popping up since the weekend? It just overwhelms me. There's just no way to choose which thread to post to without repeating myself in all of them .... so .... here's yet ANOTHER thread. I doubt there's been as much response to one event since the original 'TaylorStock' and, for that historical event, there will never be a true comparison.
Oh. The nick-name ... 'MonroeStock' ???? You guys just kill me. Makes me want to scout the countryside for the Union County version of Yasgur's farm!!! Tempts me to ease out of the real-estate rat-race and plunge into organizing and promoting acoustic guitar events full time. :eek:
I've been lazily catching my breath and reading your comments in the various threads. Each time I'm about ready to respond to one of them, another thread opens up. You've quelled a lot of my 'after-shock' worries though, and I'm sincerely honored to see that it was a success for you folks. I couldn't help but worry that those of you traveling such distances for our little event would feel that your time, effort and expenses were in vain, and I'm thrilled to read that it wasn't.
THE CREDITS:
I can't emphasize enough just what an irreplaceable and priceless role that the Holloway's Music staff played in this gathering. Marion and Mary Helen Holloway, Jason, Caleb, Skip, Jim, Ashley, and Kathy ..... You guys are SUPER !!!! It just could not be such a success without you. Period. I personally thank you not only for your participation but for your devotion to the Taylor Guitars product line, your confidence in this forum's membership and, last but not least, your confidence in me and for believing me when I told you that the people of this TGF forum would come forward and make it happen.
Carol Dzurik, owner of The Cornerstone Cafe. Folks, this lady, based on my word alone, opened up the doors to her establishment for our group alone. On nothing more than a four-burner gas cook-top, one oven and one grill, Carol single-handedly prepared meals for ... FORTY PLUS !!!!! people. With just a skeleton crew consisting of herself, her son Dylan and one staffer, Stas, she had absolutely no help in the kitchen and was admittedly overwhelmed by the turnout.
The performing artists. Stan Jacques, Robert Lee McClure and Jeff Rearick. For these three guys, music is not a hobby. It's their living. It's how they feed and clothe themselves. I sincerely thank them for giving us an entire Saturday ..... a day that, for professional performers, could have surely been more financially profitable elsewhere. Instead, they were here for us and for the love of the art of music and the fellowship that follows.
The people. You people. Without you guys it would not have happened for the third time. Just that simple. It would have been a long miserable day with just myself, Holloway's staff and the visiting artists sitting around staring at each other. (Or them staring at me!!!) Thanks for coming through for each other.
Rick Crider
Post-Script Notes:
*I'll get some photos up soon. Gotta edit, ID and type up a caption for them.
*Marion and I have kicked around the idea for a spring event, possibly the first weekend in May. Don't hold our feet to the fire just yet though.
*I won't call any names but, if the wise-crack that yelled out 'Free Bird' and 'Sweet Home Alabama' at Saturday nights dinner event pulls that stunt again, I will ceremoniously slice the tires of his Land Rover.
NINE (!!!!) different threads about this event popping up since the weekend? It just overwhelms me. There's just no way to choose which thread to post to without repeating myself in all of them .... so .... here's yet ANOTHER thread. I doubt there's been as much response to one event since the original 'TaylorStock' and, for that historical event, there will never be a true comparison.
Oh. The nick-name ... 'MonroeStock' ???? You guys just kill me. Makes me want to scout the countryside for the Union County version of Yasgur's farm!!! Tempts me to ease out of the real-estate rat-race and plunge into organizing and promoting acoustic guitar events full time. :eek:
I've been lazily catching my breath and reading your comments in the various threads. Each time I'm about ready to respond to one of them, another thread opens up. You've quelled a lot of my 'after-shock' worries though, and I'm sincerely honored to see that it was a success for you folks. I couldn't help but worry that those of you traveling such distances for our little event would feel that your time, effort and expenses were in vain, and I'm thrilled to read that it wasn't.
THE CREDITS:
I can't emphasize enough just what an irreplaceable and priceless role that the Holloway's Music staff played in this gathering. Marion and Mary Helen Holloway, Jason, Caleb, Skip, Jim, Ashley, and Kathy ..... You guys are SUPER !!!! It just could not be such a success without you. Period. I personally thank you not only for your participation but for your devotion to the Taylor Guitars product line, your confidence in this forum's membership and, last but not least, your confidence in me and for believing me when I told you that the people of this TGF forum would come forward and make it happen.
Carol Dzurik, owner of The Cornerstone Cafe. Folks, this lady, based on my word alone, opened up the doors to her establishment for our group alone. On nothing more than a four-burner gas cook-top, one oven and one grill, Carol single-handedly prepared meals for ... FORTY PLUS !!!!! people. With just a skeleton crew consisting of herself, her son Dylan and one staffer, Stas, she had absolutely no help in the kitchen and was admittedly overwhelmed by the turnout.
The performing artists. Stan Jacques, Robert Lee McClure and Jeff Rearick. For these three guys, music is not a hobby. It's their living. It's how they feed and clothe themselves. I sincerely thank them for giving us an entire Saturday ..... a day that, for professional performers, could have surely been more financially profitable elsewhere. Instead, they were here for us and for the love of the art of music and the fellowship that follows.
The people. You people. Without you guys it would not have happened for the third time. Just that simple. It would have been a long miserable day with just myself, Holloway's staff and the visiting artists sitting around staring at each other. (Or them staring at me!!!) Thanks for coming through for each other.
Rick Crider
Post-Script Notes:
*I'll get some photos up soon. Gotta edit, ID and type up a caption for them.
*Marion and I have kicked around the idea for a spring event, possibly the first weekend in May. Don't hold our feet to the fire just yet though.
*I won't call any names but, if the wise-crack that yelled out 'Free Bird' and 'Sweet Home Alabama' at Saturday nights dinner event pulls that stunt again, I will ceremoniously slice the tires of his Land Rover.