A Trip Down Guitar Memory Lane

My favorite part of the Lawrence Welk Show, back in the black and white TV era, before the pastel leisure suit band uniforms, was when Buddy Merrill would do a guitar number. Here is Buddy doing a little tribute to Les Paul.



Speaking of Les Paul, here is a video of Les and his wife, Mary Ford, singing and playing along with 24 tracks of music history. I remember the first time that I heard this song on the radio. I had a feeling similar to the one that I had the first time I heard the Beatles. Sort of like, "Did this music come from Earth or from some other galaxy?"

You know that you're pretty good when the guitar model is YOUR NAME!

Second Look At Rolling Ridge Ranch

Here are some videos that are from our visit to the animal park on Wednesday.

Rolling Ridge Ranch Animal Park

This animal park is a short drive from the RV park that we are staying in this week. We went there today, walked around one small part of the exhibit and then took the 1 hour horse-drawn wagon ride to look at hundreds of other animals. We each got a small bucket (or two) of pellet food to feed to the animals. It was a really interesting ride and our Amish driver gave us some good background information about what we were seeing. On the way home, we stopped at The Amish Door restaurant for lunch (after we washed our hands twice).

Here is a slideshow of pictures that I took at Rolling Ridge. There are some videos of the animals that I plan to post later, so stayed tuned.

Pan Music

Mark was in a steel drum band while at Miami U. and became legendary on the instrument while he was living in St. Kitts. He is now thinking about starting a small "pan" band to play in the Cincinnati area. Here is a video of Mark playing some steel drum music.

Notice that Wickett is barking his approval toward the end of the video.

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Summer Music, Food and Relaxation

Sue and I had a great time in Cincinnati over the past weekend. We got to visit with Kris and Mark and Mark's family. We also got to attend the CD release party for Josh Eagle and the Harvest City. Mark is the drummer for the band and has written some of the songs that they have recorded.

After all the excitement of the Saturday night party, with 300 fans dancing to music by JEHC and other bands, we (Mark, Kris, Sue and I) looked for something to do on Sunday that was relaxing and would keep us out of the very hot weather. We decided to have some Mexican food for lunch and then go to a movie. The movie choice was "Cowboys and Aliens". If you like westerns and slimy aliens, you will like this movie. I enjoyed it. The cast certainly featured some well-known actors. I have included a link to more information about the movie in the Hot Links section of this blog.

Now, Sue and I are at Evergreen Park RV Resort in the heart of Amish country near Mount Hope, Ohio. We will be here for a week and plan to do some sightseeing and, of course, eating at some of the many Amish-style restaurants that are in the area. An antique tractor show starts nearby on Thursday and I would like to check that out.

The RV park has great cable TV and WiFi. If we can have this in Amish country, what's the problem with IBE where we stay in the winter?