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Hi guys
Jim Boyle and I finally managed to meet up for a brief time on Tuesday.
Within a couple of minutes we were like old friends and his lovely wife Donna and my wife Roz chatted over the noise of my CS going through the Ampeg stack in our living room.They thought we were mad!
And they are probably right.
Anyway it was really great to meet Jim and Donna and as soon as they get back to the States Jim will post a couple of shots of ourselves with the CS and my FG V63.
Happy landings Jim see you on the forum at the weekend.
Cheers!
Pete.

Pete:

Glad you guys were able to hook up!

Jim and I have had some great phone calls & Email communications, but we have yet to meet in person. Actually, the only person unfortunate enough to meet me in person is Jdog.

Glad Jim was able to actually get his hands on a CS Pete, I wish I could have seen his face when he first picked it up!

C'mon, ANYONE up for a nice warm weather confluence in Florida? THIS WINTER that is!

Tony, isn't Jdog working on FARTS?

Florida Area Rickenbacker Tasting Symposium

Hey Jeff,

LOL, I don't know about Jason, but I think I've got it mastered!

So what do you guys say when this takes place,

"...I'm going to FART now, be back in a few days..????"

I could FART come winter time...

I use and recommend Heinz Baked Beans with my Rickenbacker!

Let's roll that fabulous bean footage!

Of course FARTS are always blamed on the DOG.

Dyspeptic Onstage Guitarist?

Disgruntled Overfed Guitarist?

Downright Odiferous Guitarist?

Looking forward to the pics.

Cheers, Pete, and thanks again for the great afternoon jam in Manchester!

Meeting up with Pete and his lovely wife Roz was certainly one of the highlights of the trip for us. Donna & I awoke at 5:30 AM that Tuesday and dragged ourselves down to the Oxford train station after getting in from a night in London at 2 AM... Sleep was not an option if we were going to get to Liverpool and Manchester and Tuesday was our only opportunity. We arrived in Liverpool at 11:30 and headed straight away for the Cavern, meeting the bartender, Neil, and a very nice lady from Caracas, Venezuela named Betty, who walked us to the Jacaranda Club. Since “official” tours and museums are not my thing, I just wanted to get to some spots and meet some people in this very fascinating town. Then it was off to Manchester, but we passed Dolphin Music on the way out and Donna insisted that I stop in to get a guitar as a souvenir (Donna is what we musicians call a “keeper”).

Unfortunately, the clerk in the store, a great fellow named Jon, had a little trouble ringing up the sale of the nice little Tanglewood ES-335 style guitar I’d chosen and by the time he got it right, we’d missed the 4:28 to Manchester. I rang Pete and he told me to get to Warrington Central, where he picked us up not two minutes after we arrived and took us to his flat, where we met Roz and had a drink. Then came out the mighty 4001CS and all I can tell you Chris Squire fans is that if you get the chance to meet Pete Greenwood or SEYES, you won’t be disappointed! Pete plugged into his ampeg and gave us an amazing demonstration of the CS and Chris Squire’s music, playing such classics as Close to the edge and Gates of delirium. When it was my turn, I played that great bass that was once held by Chris himself and felt honored. I’m a guitarist first and foremost, but Pete gave me some great tips on how to handle that mighty beast and it was great fun, just all too short, as we had to catch the last train from Manchester to Oxford at 7:30. The four of us piled into Pete’s Volvo and he got us to the station in the nick of time! This was one full and satisfying day if you are a Beatles and Yes fan as I am and have been for almost forty years.

On the train, after we’d caught our breath, I began to feel as if I had just left the home of an old friend, perhaps a high school pal and not someone that I’d only just met. Pete Greenwood and his wife Roz are two of the nicest people that you could ever hope to meet in your lifetime. They made us feel immediately comfortable in their home and I regretted the swiftness of the visit. Donna and I are already planning our next trip over, perhaps as early as Autumn of 2008. This time it would be just the two of us, so that we can spend more time with her family in Oxford and more time with Pete & Roz, certainly to include a SEYES performance as a wedding last Saturday dashed any chances of my getting to Bolton for that show.

So, Cheers to Pete and Roz and we’re looking forward to a SEYES Tour of the States!

Pics to follow if I can get them optimized correctly

Hey Jim,
Whos that nut pulling faces behind you?
Well I can tell you it was an unmissable opportunity to meet you and Donna.Roz and I are really looking forward to meeting up with you both again hopefully in the not too distant future.
Likewise I wish we could have spent a day doing music shops and driving our wives mad playing loud bass guitars all night!
I have to go right now,(shifts as you know)but I will be back here on Wednesday,(I have a rehearsal on Tuesday) and we can catch up.
How do like the Chris Squire/Yes forum?
Cool. Oh,hope the DVDs worked.
I must say thanks once again for this forum for bringing musicians like us together from all over the world.Cheers Jim catch you later in the week.

Pete, DVD's are great! Union is a good, professional mix, too bad QPR audio is straight off the splitter with no mixing or FX. That would have been a great documentation of that short lived lineup with Patrick Moraz.

Music shops and guitar stores just seem to get me into more trouble, especially when the missus keeps saying "Buy it!" - I'm running out of room...