Scratch
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West R Lee said:What the heck, I'll play.
We're in the Yacht Club at the 2008 Arlington Guitar Show. We'd been having a blast and Don is sitting on one side of me, while Hans is sitting on the other and we're taking in the great music. I was taking a break and had my prized, my one and only, my much beloved DV72 sitting on a stand several feet away. Someone is performing and the room is just about filled to capacity when in walks this gray haired guy that none of us know from Adam.
The gray haired guy doesn't introduce himself or say a word to anyone, walks through the folks sitting and listening, past Don and Hans and myself to the front of the room. He grabs my :shock: :shock: :shock: DV72 :shock: :shock: off the stand and sits down. About that time, my wife happened to snap a picture of my face and it is posted in another thread, though I won't post the thread here in open forum. :lol: I think Don began to laugh. :lol:
I hope Hans doesn't mind my telling this part, I'll delete it if you do Hans, but I turned to Hans and asked if he knew the guy. Hans sort of smiled a sheepish grin and rolled his eyes and said, "Yes I know him, his name is Adrian something or other and he's one of the owners of Crafter guitars."
I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place thinking this guy is incredibly arrogant and really wanting to say, "Excuse me, that's my guitar!!", but I'm in a room full of people and certainly don't want to make a scene. Then he begins to play. I don't know that I have or will ever hear that DV72 sound so beautiful. "Adrian" accompanied several people as the night went on with several different guitars.
It ended up being a non event as "Adrian" took good care of my baby and was eventually asked to play some more.
Just out of curiosity.....what would the rest of you do if this happened to you? :idea: :?:
West
I remember that like it was yesterday and the look on your face. That guy sure could play, but I've never understood how some folks can be so uncourteous. I recall he was from another country, wasn't he? Could be a cultural thing and his impression that because we all had our guitars on stands in the room, they were available. I lent my F212c out to several folks I didn't know that same evening and enjoyed listening to them, but the next year at LTG III, I pretty much kept the JF-30 in it's case as the place got quite crowded during the jam session with lots of drop-in folks we didn't know...