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I’m psyched! I just got our tickets for the Louisville festival (Abbey Road on the River).  In addition to Julia Baird, they announced last week that Louise Harrison will also be doing a talk/q&a. Also, there are some special things planned in honor of John’s 75th birthday (what would have been :/) – not sure what kind of stuff that will be, the site doesn’t have specifics. Hal Bruce will be there, I guess he knows a large (for one person) portion of the pop/rock catalog of the last 60 years and he can play any Beatles song upon request. The headline act is “former members of ELO” (not including Jeff Lynne). No need to spend 199 USD for first 10 row seats for that one, especially since there are only about 50 rows of seats altogether so watching from behind the barrier ropes will still be fairly close. Single-day general admission tickets were on sale for 22 USD in February so that is a great deal, especially since there aren’t many crowds or lines and it’s easy to see the various acts from pretty close.

My uncle and I are going down Saturday morning, spending 2 nights in the hotel, and will come home Monday night.  Another tribute band (Classictones) was announced too – they won the “best Latin American Beatles tribute band” in some contest (they’re from Columbia). Lots of bands from the European and South American theatres of Beatlemania operations. One of the bands is 4 women, not sure if they try to look like JPG&R or not

This uncle is only 15 years older than me – we’re really close A couple years ago we visited the r&r hof together, and we usually catch a baseball game if he’s here in the summer. We saw both Paul and Ringo together. He worked in my grandparents’ liquor store, where it was illegal for anyone under 20yo to enter – but when I was 10 and spent the summer with them, he’d let me sit and watch tv all day long in the store with him, and even ring it up and handle the money sometimes (very illegal!).

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