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which will be held in Bradford. 2006.
Please help us spread the word to members of your organizations and at
your events.
Festival attendees will have the opportunity to participate in
instructional workshops. and open jam sessions featuring old
time. and World folk
music. An amazing lineup of talent. including Simple Gifts. Kendra Ward
and Bob Bence. The Doerfel Family Bluegrass Band. Sterl
Van Arsdale. The Allegheny Mountain Dulcimers. and Curt Osgood will
perform concerts and present workshops.
Activities will kick off on Friday night with a concert featuring
workshop instructors followed by a contra dance. Saturday's events
will consist of workshops in the morning and afternoon. Open jam
sessions will take place throughout the day. Saturday night will
feature a concert and contra dance. and several additional workshops
will be offered on Sunday. More information about activities.

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Bette and I will be heading to CA for a preemptory look-see for a
possible move. She's a medical lab tech at Johns Hopkins and can get a gig
pretty much anywhere.
I'd be looking for a market where I could do studio audio (music and
commercials) location audio for film and video shoots. and AFTRA/SAG voice
work.
I plan to relocate my studio. There aren't a lot of basements in which to put
a studio. but that can be solved somehow or somewhere else.
San Diego has the weather and is cheaper than San Francisco and less nuts
than LA. but has less business than LA.
I hear rumors about earthquakes. but the real estate people don't seem to
know anything about them!
San Diego's Rose Canyon has the most noticeable fault line in the
populated areas if memory serves but. there have not been any shakes of
consequence since I've been here (late 1960s).

California is a crowded. seismically unstable and
mal-governed place with the largest collection of big populations of
immigrants ever to assemble in one area in human history. There are
far more cars than people in California. and Los Angeles Country is the
tail that wags the whole dog politically: 1/3rd of California's
population lives there. There is no rational reason to live here. But
a great many people want to. passionately. Why? are a few reasons. What I generally
tell people about the San Francisco area is this: you wouldn't find it
hard to understand that you'd have to make some sacrifices to live in
New York City. but there are reasons why living there might be worth
those sacrifices. San Francisco is actually the same way. but for
somewhat different reasons. (Same for LA.) You have to REALLY want to
be here for reasons other than affordable housing.
earnings-to-lifestyle ratios. in the case of San Francisco and San
Diego. the movie business. Everything you've heard is true: do you
have another reason for being here?
You may still be surprised at housing prices in San Diego. Prices have
started to stabilize and go down a little in places. but they are very
HIGH.

PS - I live close to Loma Linda & that might be a good place for your
wife to work. You would basically be 60 miles from LA and the housing
prices. are much less than further west.

<<< I recommend staying out of the SF Valley for sure. >>
Well. there's the Valley. & then there's the Valley. If one ends up on
the flatlands over by the Burbank Airport one will wish for a quick
death. OTOH I know people in the hills south of Ventura Blvd who are
living in fat city. Parts of the Valley are like Bel Air. >>>
Burbank is the center of the media world. NBC/Universal. etc. Others right next door in Glendale.There are
certainly better places to live (as well as worse) but its a great place
to have a media production studio. if you don`t mind lots of
competition. If your quality level is good your reputation will get you
business.
My Friend Del Casher. a great guitar player who has played with everyone
from Gene Autry to Frank Zappa. owns a nice studio in Burbank. His
studio does mostly voice over work . dubbing for Japanese anime. etc.
and is usually quite busy. He lives up in Beverly Hills somewhere. I
think he got in before the real estate prices climbed to the insane
levels they have recently achieved. Everyone is waiting for the bubble
to burst. but if or when it does. nobody expects prices to subside very
much. There is a great website (I forget the name) that shows aerial
views of a given area and superimposed prices over each property.
There are lots of studios all over Studio City. Van Nuys as well as Santa Clarita up to the north (hot
up there all summer. worse than the SFV).
Like everywhere else. There are good and bad areas. Most of us lock our
doors. L.A. is such a mobile community that you could randomly get hit
anywhere. This is simply a sad fact of modern society. I was close to
the epicenters of both the Northridge and Sylmar quakes. but will take
that risk over living somewhere under risk of Hurricanes. but my hands are on fire " - Bob Dylan


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but I am also
interested in guitar building/construction.
I think the Pavan are probably made by a company that makes a lot of
"factory" guitars in Spain and Tom does the quality control. I wonder
about fan bracing and stuff like that. Everyone says they sounds great
(like a $2000/$3000 guitar). but I would like to know more about their
contruction.
What is an "Individual Artisans"? what is a guitar made by
an Individual Artisans. is that one step up from a "factory" guitar?
Looks like a great value in an inexpensive instrument. Call Tom at the
toll free number and ask him the questions you posed to the group. I've
never seen or played one.

and could not be happier. it's got a cedar top.
and it sounds lovely. the best person to answer your questions is the
man himself-tom prisloe. he's very kind and generous with his
knowledge---
i shopped (and shopped) for a nice classical. as the story goes. beer pocketbook. once you get into the higher end. the
high end goes UP real quick! through in a good case and shipping. and i stayed
well below my budget. you need to realize that a grand is but a drop
in the bucket....wish i had 6 or 7 grand to spend!
i shopped (and shopped) for a nice classical. as the story goes. beer pocketbook. once you get into the higher end. through in a good case and shipping.
so I'l do my best to explain everything.


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when I file my nails for playing I always file the RH
fingernails high on the thumb side. which is the string contact point.
and low on the pinky side.
As the nails grow. the pinky side grows
faster than the thumb side. so that in a week the nails are level
across the top again.
I assume that the action of filing encourages nail growth. a bit like
pruning roses. the harder you prune them the more vigorous the growth.


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but the backlog of "stuff what I gotta say to rmmga"
is getting larger and larger.
I got a new guitar! one of Harv's Voyage-air gems. serial
number VGB-42. it's awesome and wonderful and rings in my head forever
and is everything I wished and a few things I didn't dare wish but got
anyway
I installed pickup that lasted just long enough to record a single track
and mail it off (I got it partially working again tonight. Thursday I left to attend Fur Peace Ranch. but stopped by my kid's place
to play music and eat and catch a night's sleep
then my kid had her kid. in the night/Fryday morning early. no sleep
for *any* of us :-) (I was late for the music camp - duh! then I came home to a flooded basement. and have been cleaning and
carrying and meeting with adjustor and cleanup people
and we (rmmga) also gave away another guitar to a Katrina victim -
supposedly a pic or two will surface someday. but it went to a wonderful
recipient
so I have LOTS of stories to tell. but all you get today is the
condensed version. I have pics of guitar and kid. but they are on the laptop -when I can
focus I'll dump them somewhere world-readable

You'll have to post something about Fur Peace. I've always wanted to go.
especially since it's fairly close. but never had the time or $ to do it.
Got to be a very cool experience. Another Katrina Guitar! I still think this is one of the greatest things
ever to come out of RMMGA. I know you've been one of the prime movers in
this project. You should be very proud of what you've helped accomplish!
That's not a full weekend. Crazy. Hope things
settle down a bit. Our youngest's house flooded a couple of weeks ago
when the hot water heater broke. I know it's no fun. Good luck with
that and congratulations on the grandson.

there is more opportunity



(Not on the flood... or even on the guitar.

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