http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters.html In the course of our travels, lots of old chums and new ones drop into Diamondville. We go out sometimes, too! These are some very random shots of a few such moments.  http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters.html#0 a876405f-e21a-4cd4-8828-a01c6c230d96 http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/107-0765_IMG/thumb.jpg http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/107-0765_IMG/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_0_0"><div class="style_2"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_4"><span style="line-height: 13px; " class="style_3">A Nashville after-show gathering. Touroids emeritus Richard Bennett and Paul Leim turn up for a little meet 'n' greet.<br/></span></p></div></div> http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters.html#1 f15bef1c-a6f6-4db1-a145-b8153b2452a2 http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/kinghadleyrobs/thumb.jpg http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/kinghadleyrobs/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_0_0"><div class="style_2"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_4"><span style="line-height: 13px; " class="style_3">Mr. &amp; Mrs. Rob Hajakos visit us in Nashville. Rob played fiddle on the Tennessee Moon tour, and very effectively. He went with us to Europe and to Australia, but when it came time to go to Buffalo, he developed a strong need to be at home.<br/></span></p></div></div> http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters.html#2 d594ef34-664c-46d1-9d64-922479615e0c http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/105-0599_IMG/thumb.jpg http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/105-0599_IMG/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_0_0"><div class="style_2"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_4"><span style="line-height: 13px; " class="style_3">Alicia, Larry and Don find a lost note to share with one of our guitar-pickin' pilots<br/></span></p></div></div> http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters.html#3 32388610-35e8-4aac-a3f6-10464cc44b22 http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/105-0600_IMG/thumb.jpg http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/105-0600_IMG/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_0_0"><div class="style_2"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_4"><span style="line-height: 13px; " class="style_3">Better them playing guitars than us flying planes!<br/></span></p></div></div> http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters.html#4 ec4a01f6-0369-4308-b2e9-ef8234ab3455 http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/118-1879_IMG/thumb.jpg http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/118-1879_IMG/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_0_0"><div class="style_2"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_4"><span style="line-height: 13px; " class="style_3">While shopping at Liberty in London, I was approached by some Spanish fans for a picture. Fair enough, but only if I got a picture too. This is it. They said they hope we'll come to Spain someday. "Cool," I said, as if I had anything to do with such decisions.<br/></span></p></div></div> http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters.html#5 eef8f3a3-e75b-4113-a5b5-2b34d10bd188 http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/124-2413_IMG/thumb.jpg http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/124-2413_IMG/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_0_0"><div class="style_2"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_4"><span style="line-height: 13px; " class="style_3">The Catgut Grrls pay homage to Rip Sedtall, the guru of gumbo, at his home in New Orleans. Rip, and an account of his culinary acumen, will turn up again in an upcoming scrapbook titled "Feeding the Touroids."<br/></span></p></div></div> http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters.html#6 b3f038bb-0792-4b67-9db0-d4b2f2ca56ce http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/124-2477_IMG/thumb.jpg http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/124-2477_IMG/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_0_0"><div class="style_2"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_4"><span style="line-height: 13px; " class="style_3">Bugsy (aka Howard Brooks) is our merchandise-man emeritus. He turned up while we were back east and visited his pals in Diamondville. We were happy to see him, even though he didn't bring any t-shirts.<br/></span></p></div></div> http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters.html#7 501cfd7b-7eba-412f-b869-f068677df8f2 http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/125-2533_IMG/thumb.jpg http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/125-2533_IMG/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_0_0"><div class="style_2"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_4"><span style="line-height: 13px; " class="style_3">Art Velasco is seen here with his friend Luis Bonilla, who plays trombone in the Mingus Big Band and other hot gigs. He came to dinner with the Horndogz when they hit New York on a rare day off.<br/></span></p></div></div> http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters.html#8 331ace05-91a6-472d-ba0c-e3cb3e3c503d http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/125-2515_IMG/thumb.jpg http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/125-2515_IMG/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_0_0"><div class="style_2"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_4"><span style="line-height: 13px; " class="style_3">In New York I had a visit from my Goddaughter Sarah, who's a wardrobe person for Broadway shows. This is obviously a job for which tattoos are not problematic. Here Sarah shows off one arm of her extensive and very artsy tattoo collection. The right arm is by Miro.<br/></span></p></div></div> http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters.html#9 70ed7c0d-e945-400e-82d1-fdb8c98c12c3 http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/125-2516_IMG/thumb.jpg http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/125-2516_IMG/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_0_0"><div class="style_2"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_4"><span style="line-height: 13px; " class="style_3">Sarah's left arm is by Matisse. I tried to think of an artist whose work would look good tattooed on my limbs. Then I realized that my skin already resembles a Jackson Pollock canvas, enabling me to save quite a bit of money.<br/></span></p></div></div> http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters.html#10 bc1623ff-786d-4048-94c9-6e6742b4e619 http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/126-2616_IMG/thumb.jpg http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/126-2616_IMG/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_0_0"><div class="style_2"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_4"><span style="line-height: 13px; " class="style_3">This is Jack, who has a gig on a bench in front of a Borders bookstore in Portland, Maine. Larry Klimas chatted with Jack while others ran inside to grab a cappuccino, and Larry (a former accordionist himself) reported that Jack was "a hell of a guy."<br/></span></p></div></div> http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters.html#11 255f8fc2-dc93-4177-8d05-18d24c413aec http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/126-2625_IMG/thumb.jpg http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/126-2625_IMG/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_0_0"><div class="style_2"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_4"><span style="line-height: 13px; " class="style_3">Muzoid emeritus Jefferson Kewley turned up at our show in Portland, Maine, just like he ought to.<br/></span></p></div></div> http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters.html#12 6b08f5ba-630f-4fa0-ad14-2881c05d5ebd http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/THandAuthorshirez/thumb.jpg http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/THandAuthorshirez/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_0_0"><div class="style_2"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_5"><span style="line-height: 12px; " class="style_4">At left is Floyd Favel, whose play "Governor of the Dew," was enjoyed by a Touroid contingent. In the middle is Andrea Menard, whose "The Velvet Devil" was also on the double bill of one-acts. A highlight of our stay in Ottowa was a chance to hang out with these creative people. More pictures ensue...<br/></span></p></div></div> http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters.html#13 a27a79a0-5bdf-4761-a52d-4d5ba6c5360a http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/126-2698_IMG/thumb.jpg http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/126-2698_IMG/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_0_0"><div class="style_2"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_4"><span style="line-height: 13px; " class="style_3">Andrea Menard, star and creator of "The Velvet Devil" makes nice with our piano wrestler.<br/></span></p></div></div> http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters.html#14 b551aa82-8c98-464c-a534-fdad068012e1 http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/126-2688_IMG/thumb.jpg http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/126-2688_IMG/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_0_0"><div class="style_2"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_4"><span style="line-height: 13px; " class="style_3">Woodwind player Michel Dubeau, bassist Paul Johnston and drummer John Fraboni, hang out with Catherine. They were in the band playing for "The Velvet Devil." </span></p></div></div> http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters.html#15 810adcdf-578d-4e03-bf85-d6e026d4a1fc http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/126-2691_IMG/thumb.jpg http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/126-2691_IMG/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_0_0"><div class="style_2"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_4"><span style="line-height: 13px; " class="style_3">Michel Dubeau attempts to lure snakes out of Dana's drink glass.<br/></span></p></div></div> http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters.html#16 bd5fa90a-a378-445b-a5d8-a98f20a3db28 http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/127-2715_IMG/thumb.jpg http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/127-2715_IMG/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_0_0"><div class="style_2"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_4"><span style="line-height: 13px; " class="style_3">Michel Dubeau exchanges a number of notes with Don Markese while hanging with the Touroids.<br/></span></p></div></div> http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters.html#17 728baf26-68e6-4e93-b912-07f6153b3d63 http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/127-2717_IMG/thumb.jpg http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/127-2717_IMG/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_0_0"><div class="style_2"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_4"><span style="line-height: 13px; " class="style_3">John Fraboni brought over his cymbal, autographed by Elvin Jones, for all to see. Andrea Menard has seen it before, so she looks at the camera.<br/></span></p></div></div> http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters.html#18 f9d82f2d-963d-4d2c-8c0a-008637e21afb http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/127-2744_IMG/thumb.jpg http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/127-2744_IMG/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_0_0"><div class="style_2"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_4"><span style="line-height: 13px; " class="style_3">This woman was handing out pamphlets in a market in Toronto. I think the word is "stylin'"!<br/></span></p></div></div> http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters.html#19 d49d304c-19ec-40df-a3b2-db1bc511f149 http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/128-2865_IMG/thumb.jpg http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/128-2865_IMG/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_0_0"><div class="style_2"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_4"><span style="line-height: 13px; " class="style_3">Tom is never too busy to visit with fans, even the printed cardboard kind. Here he is shown greeting a silent friend in Vancouver.<br/></span></p></div></div> http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters.html#20 4064261d-fe35-4382-ab6e-ab62ed3e12dc http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/Don%26Cate/thumb.jpg http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/Don%26Cate/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_0_0"><div class="style_2"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_4"><span style="line-height: 13px; " class="style_3">This is Don and Cate. They looked somehow different from the usual hangers-out in the lobby bar, and they were.<br/></span></p></div></div> http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters.html#21 d4dcb589-d311-4b5a-8062-3533367630d4 http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/131-3200_IMG/thumb.jpg http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/131-3200_IMG/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_0_0"><div class="style_2"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_4"><span style="line-height: 13px; " class="style_3">Don Stroud (he's an actor but he's not THAT Don Stroud) and Cate (we didn't catch her last name but we're pretty sure it wasn't Blanchett). The bar was jumpin' in Fresno, because...well, where else were you planning on going?<br/></span></p></div></div> http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters.html#22 165f2c90-6094-48d3-a401-7607c9d15bcf http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/133-3346_IMG/thumb.jpg http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/133-3346_IMG/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_0_0"><div class="style_2"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_4"><span style="line-height: 13px; " class="style_3">Art Velasco sits in with the jazzers playing in the lobby bar at the hotel in Kansas City. Many notes were played.<br/></span></p></div></div> http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters.html#23 b3e7b96a-a9d2-4859-a5e1-a786ba72cc55 http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/32983953NWMPRg_ph/thumb.jpg http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/32983953NWMPRg_ph/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_0_0"><div class="style_2"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_4"><span style="line-height: 13px; " class="style_3">Alicia is doing some non-violin sitting in with an Irish group at a bar in Charleston, SC. Their repertoire apparently needed some pepping up, and one Catgut Grrl was up to the task.<br/></span></p></div></div> http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters.html#24 d20eb380-d317-4bc2-af8d-e896a17a0f73 http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/albertlinda/thumb.jpg http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/albertlinda/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_0_0"><div class="style_2"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_5"><span style="line-height: 12px; " class="style_4">Australia, 1976. Comic Albert Brooks was along but visa troubles prevented him from performing publicly. So he took the mic on our bus and did boffo material during every ride, setting a tone which we&#x2019;ve tried to carry on. We don't know what ever happened to Albert. That's Linda on the right, by the way, or at least a bit of her. She looks just the same as today!<br/></span></p></div></div> http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters.html#25 60c176b1-9f3a-419e-b300-a355e7ef7de1 http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/TH%20n%20puffin/thumb.jpg http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/TH%20n%20puffin/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_0_0"><div class="style_2"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_4"><span style="line-height: 13px; " class="style_3">Why don't you write your own caption for this picture? Go ahead, we won't stop you<br/></span></p></div></div> http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters.html#26 df13963d-f603-4544-86ff-8d0827718998 http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/dennis/thumb.jpg http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/dennis/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_0_0"><div class="style_2"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_4"><span style="line-height: 13px; " class="style_3">Drummer emeritus Dennis St. John was back in the midwest visiting family when Diamondville blew into town, so he came around to hang with his old pals. Alan and Stan and King are trying to figure out why Dennis has so much HAIR!<br/></span></p></div></div> http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters.html#27 982d5fcd-acc0-4065-b42c-f114a61af216 http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/dennis3/thumb.jpg http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/dennis3/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_0_0"><div class="style_2"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_4"><span style="line-height: 13px; " class="style_3">Dennis and King share a laugh over a story which neither of them can remember but which they both seem to have enjoyed.<br/></span></p></div></div> http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters.html#28 11de57a0-d5b7-4d01-a6c2-ec177239162d http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/diamondsmugwhoop/thumb.jpg http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/diamondsmugwhoop/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_0_0"><div class="style_2"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_4"><span style="line-height: 13px; " class="style_3">Muzoids share a mock whoop in Austin, Texas with Steve McCarthy of the Diamond Smugglers, had just completed a set much like our own, except with smutty parts added. We tried to add some smut to our show, but got it backwards and ended up downing an entire package of Tums.<br/></span></p></div></div> http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters.html#29 3451b77c-9b30-4e05-92e6-0042e6261db5 http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/Diva/thumb.jpg http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/Diva/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_0_0"><div class="style_2"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_4"><span style="line-height: 13px; " class="style_3">The Dominatrix Diva of NYC came all the way to Buffalo to be part of a Wolf Gang evening and made short work of the men in her audience. Larry Klimas seems poised to receive a swift kick from the Diva, who is the sister of one of the Catgut Grrls.<br/></span></p></div></div> http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters.html#30 1d41b905-8963-4202-bcad-f1299905281e http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/golfers/thumb.jpg http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/golfers/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_0_0"><div class="style_2"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_4"><span style="line-height: 13px; " class="style_3">Not the Presses, the PRESS! That's Charlie Waters on the left, the editor of the Fresno Bee. Ray Steele, the publisher of the very same paper, is on the right. The Muzoid in the middle is a golfer undone.<br/></span></p></div></div> http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters.html#31 0ef29c12-116e-4ed7-b25d-b913fd6bfe46 http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/golfers2/thumb.jpg http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/golfers2/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_0_0"><div class="style_2"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_4"><span style="line-height: 13px; " class="style_3">We couldn't find anybody to take a picture of the full foursome, so this is King's turn to be in the picture. The rest of the guys are the same as before, except about a minute older. Note the wonderful Fresno atmosphere. We love a place where you can take a snapshot of the air!<br/></span></p></div></div> http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters.html#32 0f147a1a-cba8-4497-9b15-b373b5c9cd5c http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/linda_n_elephant/thumb.jpg http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/linda_n_elephant/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_0_0"><div class="style_2"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_4"><span style="line-height: 13px; " class="style_3">Linda poses with an unidentified elephant at Woburn Abbey. She didn't remember the elephant's name, but we're sure he remembered hers.<br/></span></p></div></div> http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters.html#33 e3c73373-1f5a-4bcb-9b7f-e007bb5271b6 http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/hadleybear/thumb.jpg http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/hadleybear/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_0_0"><div class="style_2"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_4"><span style="line-height: 13px; " class="style_3">Hadley meets a bear in Anchorage, Alaska. Fortunately, there is a fence to protect the bear.<br/></span></p></div></div> http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters.html#34 e1be5f17-0022-42a5-a860-8781c1fab406 http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/manchjam/thumb.jpg http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/manchjam/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_0_0"><div class="style_2"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_4"><span style="line-height: 13px; " class="style_3">Catherine sits in with guitarist/singer Keron Cunningham and fiddler Andrew Dinan (lurking somewhere out of the frame) at a pub in Manchester, England.<br/></span></p></div></div> http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters.html#35 7e9322b3-a43c-4092-87d6-0236369d5844 http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/m._palin_and_pbi/thumb.jpg http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/m._palin_and_pbi/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_0_0"><div class="style_2"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_4"><span style="line-height: 13px; " class="style_3">Monty Pythonster emeritus Michael Palin relaxes backstage with a glass of wine and the day's issue of the PBI. "I always enjoy the PBI with my wine," said Palin, "Or at least I did on this occasion. Particularly the wine." <br/></span></p></div></div> http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters.html#36 5db71c39-acf1-4e97-a2a5-d8c48245febd http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/Portlandelvisstephanie/thumb.jpg http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/Portlandelvisstephanie/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_0_0"><div class="style_2"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_4"><span style="line-height: 13px; " class="style_3">Our pianist poses with the lovely Stephanie G. Pierce, "artist to the stars," and the "celebrity spokesmodel, minister &amp; hostette" for the 24-hour Church of Elvis in Portland, Oregon. Sad to say, on our last Portland stop the 24HCofE was no longer in operation.<br/></span></p></div></div> http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters.html#37 139abb9a-0e33-4df0-bcd4-bb8ed6b25ae5 http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/springer/thumb.jpg http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/springer/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_0_0"><div class="style_2"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_4"><span style="line-height: 13px; " class="style_3">At Jerry Springer show in Chicago. Our Security lads are big fans of Springer's. I never got Jerry (a former Cincinnatian) to discuss my favorite subject: five-way Chili. The only five-ways on their agenda were the kind involving a llama, a cheerleader and a few very close friends.<br/></span></p></div></div> http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters.html#38 1bbd86a3-7b14-425e-bf37-45229e4ca3b3 http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/100-01030DSC/thumb.jpg http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/100-01030DSC/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_0_0"><div class="style_2"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_4"><span style="line-height: 13px; " class="style_3">An unidentified Muzoid signs an autograph in the Glasgow airport for a woman who has obviously mistaken him for Tom Cruise. She should have been able to tell the difference. Our pianist is MUCH taller.<br/></span></p></div></div> http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters.html#39 64cfe85a-8a22-479b-8c11-5762f50c4b75 http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/richardhadley/thumb.jpg http://diamondville.com/Diamondville/Encounters_files/Media/richardhadley/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_0_0"><div class="style_2"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_4"><span style="line-height: 13px; " class="style_3">Guitarist emeritus Richard Bennett poses alongside his heir and successor, Hadley Hockensmith, following a show in Nashville. We figure Richard showed Hadley a few of his special licks and Hadley showed Richard a few of his special pick-making tricks.<br/></span></p></div></div>