REO Family Photos & Storage Ideas III
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Sounds like you've lived the dream! I was busy learning to spell (didn't happen) and write and multiply in those days, across the whole country from the Bay in Quantico. But I was blessed to be at the last show he played with the boys, same venue as the coming shows, couple of days shy of 20 years before these shows, so there's another anniversary we'll be celebrating. Also lost a dear friend between Indiana and St Louis that last tour. He passed on the 4th of July. Probably the most important anniversary in my mind.
Hoping I don't have any trouble getting my Reo in!
Used to go to hear him jam with his own small band at the Longbranch Saloon & Keystone in Berkeley in '71 !
I've got some great recordings from Keystone '71. Got to meet Merle briefly in Seattle in '93 or '94, those years kinda run together for me...
The Keystone brings back many good memories. When not seeing the Grateful Dead at Winterland I'd catch Bod Weir with Kingfish at the Keystone.
I'm a late bloomer as far as his music but I've been eating his flavor of ice cream for a long time. Does that count?
Winterland, the Fillmore and the Family Dog are all a blur to me.
The few times i made it to Berkeley, i remember seeing a giant purple worm devouring the Oakland Tribune building while driving my VW Bug on 17 back to the South Bay...
I think I remember that too!!
I lived up in the Berkeley Hills, could see the Bay Bridge in the distance in one direction and Oakland in the other. I had a clear view of that worm from my balcony.
What started my Reo trail 8+ months ago, and it was bought used off the classifieds. Having never seen one in person, I had no idea if I was even going to like a Reo or if it was just going to be yet another mod like so many before it that would soon be relegated to the out of service box. I knew the answer to that question 3-4 hours after I received it and ordered a new #2. Yes it tripped my switch... big time. Had 9 Reos within two months, 17 now and more will come. One of these days I need to do a new "Reo family" picture. Just never seem to get around to it... always too busy with the Reos... vaping them, refilling them, doing builds, etc and occasionally I take a nap (since I seldom actually sleep). 
Spydro, I have a little something just so you can post updated pictures of your Reo family
As a long time exonumist (and co-founder of N.U.T.S about 35 years ago) I get it!
Actually have a few hundred "round tuit's" in my collection along with all the trade & transportation tokens, medallions, script, encased coins and many other "good for" items (exomumia).
(I researched and collected exonumia; researched, field studied and collected as a numismatist, notaphilist, scripophilist, lepiphilatelist; mineralogist, gemologist; lepidopterist, coleopterist, chiropterologist, conchologists, botanist and for many other hobbies).
Do you ever sleep?
Not much since I was a kid. I went through most my life with my hair on fire with too many things I wanted to see and do in this world to waste time sleeping. Now I live life one day at a time for reasons I can't change and have an inactive life that doesn't need much sleep.
Not a family pic but working on a door. Couldn't get the alcohol inks to give me a design I was happy with so I just busted out some acrylic and painted up a simple design I knew I'd like [emoji2] (CO state flag for those those not in the know)
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