Tuesday night we had the pleasure of going over to the Maumee Elks Showcase Bluegrass and Country Jam. They had Pete Gobel as a special guest. Pete Gobel is a well known bluegrass songwriter from up in the Detroit, Michigan area. He’s been long time friends with our own Gene (a local guitar picker fellow) and so it was really neat to have him down to visit and all. Pete doesn’t really play much any more, so instead they set up a little table and did a nice interview of him for the audience.

And then… WE PLAYED!!!!

It was fun, there were a lot of people there and that makes it fun. Got to jam with my band guys as well as lots of the local musicians. Always enjoy being able to have fun and laugh and play bluegrass music. It’s my only real social outlet, so I enjoy it a good deal.

Merl and Peggy run the show and they are like kin to me… Merl and Bill are my car pimps! HAHAHA… Okay, well, maybe I should rephrase that. They are in charge of my automobile acquisition and maintenance. They are good at it and my shining lights when it comes to vehicles!

Now don’t tell anyone… but I just bought them a domain for their jam! I’m setting it up as a blog because I know Peggy will be able to keep it up and have a hoot with it. She loves taking pictures at the jam and she’s also a little computer nerd too, so it’s going to be fun to teach her how to run the blog site and to see how she does with her OWN website!!!

It’s still kinda infantile…. I’ll work on it tonight some…

www.ShowcaseJam.com

I drew them a logo a couple weeks ago… I think it’s fun. I made most of the Deepwater crew as Elks playing instruments! They love it and we’re going to be doing t-shirts soon!

I’m pretty sure once I color it up and slap it on the blog and add a nice theme and all, it will work out just nice!

Stay tuned! It was a fun night and we ended up playing till way after 10:30 or so… Great bunch of people, and a lot of fun to play all night.