Saturday, June 12, 2010

A FAIRLY Nice Day

We were invited by Nancy Stoke of the Torrey Pines Rotary Club to play and run their booth at the San Diego County Fair. They're doing a toy drive for the Rady Children's Hospital and love our Varsity Strings program, so here we are the first Saturday, early in the morning getting our guitar bags security checked at
the exhibitor entrance to the Fair:

No problem!

A long walk to the booth, and nobody's there but us - our exhibitor passes get us in before the public.


LETS PLAY, DOGGIES!



































These girls were up earlier than us.


Now this is the basic blues jam. Add three chords, unlimited solos, stir, and you've got hours of entertainment.


Here's our acoustic version of Little Wing by Mr. Jimi Hendrix.



And in a little guitar slappin and you've got a whole new realm of possibilities!



"Don't wiz on the rhubarb"



This is our home away from home...




Check out Sam's guitar - Koa wood top!



So there's lots of other charity booths around us, these people are dedicated to PSITTACINE knowledge.


This is a PSITTACINE.

 


And this is the biggest food booth at the Fair; JUICY'S. These guys use a 16-wheel semi truck to BBQ on. I'm not kidding.


So in honor of Curly Max, we had Juicy's Mountain of Curly Fries:


The Many Faces of Sam;

HILLBILLY:



































ROCK STAR:



































MARIACHI PLAYER:



































The funny thing is (look close) the people from this booth were asleep all day! -


Monkey business -


Max, Curly Max, Sam:

Then I started seeing guitars everywhere. That's a half-eaten guitar the monkey is hitting the alligator with:


This kid looks like a Nikbeat:


And here is the coolest charity booth at the Fair.

This is it.

Ready?

Set,

GO!


It's the Racers Against Drugs people, they have racers come to your school for free, talk about how bad drugs are and they BRING THEIR CARS!


And remember - RACING SEASON IS GRILLING SEASON!

Look at Marcos Ambrose:


And finally, time for the Deep Fried Butter.




































On the way home,


We met our La Jolla High School Robotics Team!


And more guitars on the way out - that's Bo Diddeley:


ZZ Top:


Somebody playing a nice blue Gibson:

A tractor playing an archtop sunburst:


And on the way out these tempting guitars and congo drums all lined up nice and pretty for us. These are real Flying V's. I think we should test all of these as a community service to the Fair:


Man, we're tired! See you next time!

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