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Well, continuing the review/videos from The 7th Annual GGF…We had the return of Crazy Joe Tritschler playing a set with tiny Mosrite-like Electric Guitars…”I Don’t Like I Did Before”

I was very excited to see one of the last original delta blues guitarist, he actually was with Robert Johnson the night he was poisoned…David “Honeyboy” Edwards along with Joel Paterson playing “Baby You Gotta Change Your Mind”

There is always at least one oddball “break out some old instruments” kinda thing. One year, it was the Double Neck Trainwreck, another year it was “The All Bigsby Band”, and this year…the 12 String Electric Nightmare, doing “Hey Mr 12 String Band”

There is only one performer who has played at each of the 7 GGF’s and it’s Brian Lonbeck, the Barn Burner of Bakersfield. He performed a very special set with fellow Mosrite doubleneck axe-slinger Elaine Frizzell of Nashville. Here they are doing “Dueling Banjos”

Until part 3…

So lets see how this works…Jan 16, 2010 was the 7th annual Deke Dickerson Guitar Geek Festival. The usually suspects were in tow, and we got prime seating again this year. However, make no mistake “The GGF” is a ritual. This is my 4th one, and they are grueling. I usually show up around 1:30pm for a 3PM Door Open, and 4:30pm show. It ended last year at around 1:45am. So again, I was first in line at the lovely Anaheim Plaza Hotel Ballroom on Jan 16, 2010. Jamie and Ben showed up with a gang of the regulars in from as far as Salt Lake City and St George, UT.

For those that are GGF Virgins, (most of you) it’s pretty much named properly. The headliner this year was Duane Eddy, but I have seen a tribute to Surf Bands (Almost every major player in the surf music world played one year), with Nokie Edwards of the Ventures, Rockabilly bands, AMAZING fingerpickers, and a Heavy Metal Mandolin player in past years. It’s a great day of discovering people that don’t get all the album sales but are TRULY unbelieable players. Plus its fun and you see really old guitars, off beat stuff, and I wouldn’t miss it for anything!

First up were the world famous jewish surf band, Meshugga Beach Party (Here with “If I Were A Rich Man”)

Then Buddy and Suzy Dughi with Folsom Prison Blues…

I’ll leave you with two fanastic guitar players, Steve Trovato and Carl Verheyen doing “Dark Eyes” (Until the next post)

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