[JohninCt.]

I think the Hartford article was right on about his voice. I seen him a couple years back at the Palace Theater in Waterbury, and his voice was stronger and smoother then. I thought he might have had a slight cold, or the amount of shows he was doing in the past week had his power down a bit. It was a Monday night show and as a mood show it was kind of slowly driven as most Mondays seem to be. Leslie was the road manager again. At the bar in the lobby, they had some posters and they had Gordons picture on them, and then some advertisements for drinks such as "Early Morning Rain" Jaguar Vodka & Seirra Mist, and "Sundown" Tequila Sunrise, and then the rest of the content on the posters were ads for Bud Light. I was able to get a 8x10 size, and thought it would be unusal item to have Gordon autograph. I had Rick sign it. While talking to a couple people, we mentioned how we thought it was something Gordon might not like. While waiting for Gordon to sign it, Leslie saw it. He asked to see it, I handed it to him and I explained where it came from and what it was. He called over the manager of the theater and they had a few minute conversation about no one asking permission to use his photo on this kind of advertising, she assured him that it was only for the lobby and wasn't going any further than that. So it was resolved, but he did mention that she should always get an artists permission first, which I thought was the correct thing to do. Anyway, Leslie gave it back to me and Gordon did sign it for me, but I don't think he really looked at it. Nice night, being that I met Jenny again and got to talk with Rick for awhile, and it was kind of nice to be there with those people that paid $400 for 2 tickets to Public TV, to get to meet Gordon after the show. I liked that there were about 10 of them, showing a good interest in Gordon. They were chaperoned by some lady who told them to hand her their camera and she would take the picture with Gordon for them. When they were done, I asked her to take a picture of me with Gordon, and she said "you aren't with my group, so no I won't" . I said to Gordon "imagine that, how am I supposed to get a picture taken", and Leslie was standing nearby and he seen it all a and said " I'll do it for you". I sure thank him for that, and he was very gracious in the process.
About Carters guitar playing, it is a bit lower in volume level overall than Terrys was, and though he uses a Gretch Tennessean for the electric parts, what I notice is that he has less bite or edge, and I think he could correct it with some gain in his treble controls.
One other thing, have you ever really listened to Rick on the bass? He is Mister Precise, I have never heard him out of time, or out of tune, or miss a note in all these years.
All in all it was a good show for me, but I can remember that all of them are, just that this one had a couple twists to it..