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Home > Contact > Newsletter Archive > August 2001 Fearing
and Lusty in Lunenburg
Sunday
- a busy day ahead and not much sleep to fuel it on. Repeated
thanks to George for taking the driving duties last night. |
I stood on the floating portion of the wharf and took this picture of Rick's rig... |
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...and then I spun around and took this shot for my wife. |
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Stephen's
final event of the festival was dubbed 'Crazy as a Loon' with
Haines and Leighton, Chris Whiteley, Connie Kaldor, Larry Cohen.
Stephen really wanted a photo of Connie with her new Manzer Cowpoke,
here it is... |
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Connie Kaldor poses with Stephen and their matching Manzer Cowpokes. You can visit Connie at www.conniekaldor.com |
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Apologies
to Connie Kaldor and all of the rest that sweated it out on stage
Sunday night but, for me, the highlight of the evening was the meal
that Lisa and George prepared for us. Scallops and salmon, veggies
from their garden, great wine, great company. We had to cut dinner festivities a bit short as Stephen had agreed to play a tune with Scott during the final Main Stage show. Scott called SF up on stage and they launched into one of the tunes that they had jammed the night before. Lemme tell ya', the place went friggin' apeshit after they finished. SF came off the stage covered in sweat sporting a huge shit eatin' grin - I'm not sure if his feet were touching the ground. Connie (ably assisted by her husband and sister-in-law) put on a great show to close out the festival. It's been a couple of decades since I last was Connie perform and I was impressed with her stage presence and command of the audience. What did I learn from this festival? If you're hanging around with one of the performers you don't get to see very many other people play, especially when 'your performer' is in great demand and is always running late for the next event. Compounding this was the inevitable need to satisfy two sets of coffee cravings, the backstage/between set chats with other attendees (thanks Jennyfer for keeping me entertained!) and, of course, the lure of the dive shop with all of those neat toys to look at. We retired to George and Lisa's at a reasonable hour and messed with scuba gear. SF has a nickname - 'Stephen Gearing' - because of his addiction to fiddling with guitar pickups, his guitar rack and all things associated with making an amplified guitar sound good. Why, there's even a gear section on this site! I am guilty of this obsession as well, flat water paddling, camping, white water paddling, snowboarding - these are all 'gear' sports and I have a section of my garage that I call the 'sports store' to prove it. Nothing compares to the gear involved in scuba - so much to buy, so much to fiddle with. Here for the first time in public is the deal SF and I have - 'The first one of us to strike it rich has to buy the other a scuba dry suit (and, presumably, one for himself)'. So, get out there and buy lots of copies of Stephen's CDs. Some day, should you happen to spot a couple of divers in matching pink dry suits, you'll know that there was a sale on somewhere and that one of us is rich. |
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