Red Dog you can beat this!

You can do this, Red Dog! :yep:

Hey RedDog. When I was diagnosed with the second cancer within 6 months I ask the Dr how long I had to begin the treatments. He then ask me why I would ask that. I told him I had to get my work life in order. He then stated that 5 years previously if he told a patient he had 2 cancers within 6 months the patient would have most likely just given in. I did not and I am here today working and living a good quality of life. The advancements in medicine in the past 5 years are incredible. Fight the Fight Brother!! You have been through a lot and you will get through this!!! Embrace the treatments and slay the dragon!! I think it may have been Bird72 that told me that. It worked for me and it will work for you. Keep the Faith Brother. I Love you. Peach.

I did not hear what I wanted to hear today. I am now waiting on the Chemo clinic to call with my first appointment date, for Chemo and Radiation treatment. The journey begins.

I sure wish I could go to camp!

Will anyone on the guestbook adopt me and send me to Rock ‘n Roll Fantasy Camp this fall... I promise to write everyday and stay out of trouble.

woodstock 94 ... Dickey & Warren man o man! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLj8LWfxN3c&feature=related

I recently came across this "review" of the June 2002 show at the Brickyard in Columbus, OH that I had saved . This is the show that Billy Bob Thornton attended with the guitar player from his band. They had been on tour and ended the day before in Ohio. They both stayed over to attend this show. This was written by Michael Shipp who is Billy Bob's long time friend and guitar player. I thought Red Dog would especially appreciate it. As we are prone to do quite often, a change in our travel plans was about to take place. Billy had connected with our writer friend, Mr. John Dauphin, who invited us to Columbus for a sit down interview and a special treat. Billy asked me if I wanted to get off the bus in Columbus and spend an extra day or two instead of flying home out of Cleveland. Once I found out the special treat in store was an opportunity to meet Dickey Betts and his great new band, see their show, and hang out with a legend of rock, it was an easy decision. Plus, anytime I can put off flying as long as possible, I am all over the idea. Therefore, we returned to Columbus this June evening, said goodbye to the rest of the band as the bus took them home to Nashville. The next day, John Dauphin picked us up and took us to lunch where we sat most of the afternoon, ate some great food, and chatted about music, baseball, music, and some more baseball. Then we headed to the Brickyard in Columbus. Dickey Betts’ bus arrived about the same time as us. We were invited on, which is always nice for anybody to do before their show. Now you have to remember, the Allman Brothers Band is like an icon to me and Billy. Those guys are heroes to us as much as Bob Gibson, Mantle, McCovey, or Johnny Cash. Many people compare my guitar playing to the Bearded One, the Texas Reverend Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top. Now Billy G is certainly a huge friend and inspiration to me and my playing, but Dickey Betts is right up there with my guitar idols. He is a career course in taste and tone, as is Gibbons, and hopefully, somewhere in between these two lifers, is a hole for me to fill up with my guitar. As for Billy Bob, he is pretty much an encyclopedia of rock, very hip on drummers, and amazes me that he even knows things like the roadies' names from the seventies, or who played bass on certain Frank Zappa songs. Of course, this guy also still remembers every phone number he ever dialed, including the backhoe rental customers we had back in the early eighties. Saying all this, you can imagine what a thrill it was for Dickey to invite us onto the stage for a jam with him and the band on one of the Brothers famous tunes, “Southbound”. They cleared one of the drum kits for Billy and Dickey had one of his famous Les Pauls and Marshal rigs prepared for me. Dickey’s super guitar tech, Carlos, outfitted me in no time. Carlos himself is a tone machine. Giving me a ’59 Les Paul and standing me in front of a Marshal rig is not unlike surprising Elvis with one of those peanut butter and banana sandwiches served on your finest Ann Margaret china. Dickey took the stage and played a little while to a super nice crowd in Columbus. Billy Bob and I sat beside the stage chatting with Dickey’s top assistant and driver dude, Mr. Billy Hardaway. It was so easy to just sit with your eyes closed and jam to the music as they played. Mr. Betts is such a part of rock history, and whenever you think of the early days it brings chills to you. They have been through so much. I mean, this is the guy whose guitar is all over the greatest live record ever made, Live at the Fillmore East. These guys were having a blast with us Arkansans, especially, focusing on Billy’s Oscar winning Karl Childers character from Sling Blade. Dickey brought us up on the stage. In a brief moment, I would find myself onstage with a guitar hero. In addition to Dickey, his fellow guitarist was also on tour with him, Dangerous Dan Toler, a former Allman Brother himself. With Billy Bob at the drum kit, me, Dickey, and Dangerous Dan welding guitars and with the awesome band Great Southern behind us, we kicked off about a 20 minute version of Southbound. It was such a cool thing. You would have had to have been there to appreciate how nice Dickey was to us, especially me, giving me as much “solo” time as I wanted during our all too brief performance. To be a part of a three way harmony lead finale with Dickey and Dan was such an awesome moment for me. Afterwards, I think the crowd was amazed that Billy Bob and I were pretty damn well versed in the blues, and the rowdy jam rock that these guys were famous for. I hope I did OK in Mr. Betts eyes, and according to the crowd afterwards, I apparently did. We eased back over to our hotel after hanging out with Dickey and the band after the show. As Billy Bob and myself are known to do, we sat in a hotel room until about 4 am drinking Buds and stating to each other about 50 times……damn man, do you realize that for about 20 minutes we were in the Allman Brothers. Now, you have to know, that Dickey has left the Allman Brothers and is striking a mean trail with his new band, Great Southern, but he is still a “Brother” to us and a legion of fans. So folks, when people ask me what my favorite moment of the Private Radio Tour was, I have to veer off slightly with this little story. We traveled to 10 countries, coast to coast in the U.S., played the Cavern Club in Liverpool, and met some huge British Rock icons from the past. However, for me, Big Daddy, Rooster Boy, or plain ole Michael R. Shipp, the highlight would be that brief encounter and impromptu jam session with Dickey Betts and Great Southern that I will remember for a long while. Oh that Marshal had some tone, but hopefully, some of it was “in the hands”. Keep it in the Red Zone and Saturate that thing………see you somewhere down the road.

:laugh: :laugh: I haven't been on a cruise since 1968 with my parents to Nassau, Freeport, etc... I did have my picture taken by Daily News here in New York a young photographer had asked me if I was going on this cruise.., I said yes, and he asked if I wanted my picture in the Daily News... naturally I said NO... but my Dad was like... go ahead.. do it... Geez... parents... Tell me about the cruise , voador ?

voadar... WOW... you can do that on any link picture that is copied and saved..... Very cool... Thank you so much, Larry... I am saving those instructions... very simple for me to understand.. Listening to this song.... Rain, standing in the rain... man, where do you find stuff... it's always good.... L A R R Y ..... 😀