Ryan McGarvey (Page 3 of 34)

Hey, thanks you two!   The trip just sort of fell together. Tallan and his family were at Shank Hall a month or so ago and Carl, Tallan's dad, invited me to go along with him and Tallan to Dallas to attend the International Guitar Festival. Then, before we left, Carl said we might as well go to Austin first for 3 to 4 days to see a few people and hang out. Loooooong drive from Elkorn, Wisconsin to Austin, Texas! We started out at 3:00 AM and arrived in Austin at 9:30 PM with only one real stop in St. Louis. Had a great time there including Blues Tuesday at Antonoe's where we saw Malford Milligan, David Grissom and Chris Layton perform. Funny story of Tallan and I running into Chris in the men's room. Anyway, after our stay in Austin we drove up to Dallas (about 3 hours north) and stayed at a fellow's home by the name of Rick who is the president of the SRV Ride and Concert. We hung out with Rick hitting some great restaurants and of course hung out at the Festival. Tallan had commitments at 2 booths; both the SRV Ride and Concert booth and the Dangerous Guitar booth. Tallan got up and played not only at Antone's with The Peterson brothers, but also jammed with Lance Lopez both at the indoor stage and the Dangerous Guitar booth. He also got up to perform at The Bone in Dallas with a couple of young Texas guitar slingers by the names of Brandon Katona and Benton Lawson, both excellent guitarists!

Anyway, we had a 9-day blast of music, travel and fun...I have lots of picture. Actually too many , but I'll link them here...

Trip down http://www.flickr.com/photos/8384830@N0 … 540524128/

Day 1 Austin http://www.flickr.com/photos/8384830@N0 … 541248154/

Day 2 Austin http://www.flickr.com/photos/8384830@N0 … 541857322/

Day 3 Austin http://www.flickr.com/photos/8384830@N0 … 417245175/

Day 1 Dallas http://www.flickr.com/photos/8384830@N0 … 417539275/

Day 2 Dallas http://www.flickr.com/photos/8384830@N0 … 418267567/

Day 3 Dallas http://www.flickr.com/photos/8384830@N0 … 544159132/

Day 4 Dallas http://www.flickr.com/photos/8384830@N0 … 545529166/

Trip home http://www.flickr.com/photos/8384830@N0 … 420941691/

Roy

I'll see him the 10th, 11th and 17th!!!  Great to see and talk  talk with him.

Interview and review   from the Grolsch Bluesfestival in Schoeppingen will follow in www.bluesmagazine.nl with pictures from our Marco van Rooyen.

I believe you will all be amazed at Ryan's playing.  Enjoy!!! Tell him Rocket says Rock On!

Rock ON & Keep the Faith,
Rocket

"He still doesn't charge for mistakes! "
http://jbonamassa.com/tour-dates/
"Everybody wants ta get inta the act!"
“Now, this isn’t your ordinary party crowd, here.  I mean, there are professionals in here.”

Not fair - Ryan goes to Europe before he hits most of his own country!

Enjoy guys - I still have very pleasant memories of Ryan playing on the backstage at Crossroads - Mystic Dreams is killer.

Sandy

He's New Mexico based but has definitely been out this way...and that way Sandy.  Hard guy to catch up with!!

Rock ON & Let 'er Rip (not RIP) Ryan, Keep the Faith Y'all, he'll be bahhhck,
Rocket

"He still doesn't charge for mistakes! "
http://jbonamassa.com/tour-dates/
"Everybody wants ta get inta the act!"
“Now, this isn’t your ordinary party crowd, here.  I mean, there are professionals in here.”

Which seriously says a lot about the state of the so-called economucks [sic] of the USA specifically and the music business in general.   

Rock ON & Keep the Faith,
Rocket

"He still doesn't charge for mistakes! "
http://jbonamassa.com/tour-dates/
"Everybody wants ta get inta the act!"
“Now, this isn’t your ordinary party crowd, here.  I mean, there are professionals in here.”

...and if they don't, I sure will.

Very, very stoked to be meeting the boy at last and to finally hear him play live! Cathy and I played his cd a lot over the last three weeks.

That blew me away, Rocket. Literally.