Had the wonderful pleasure of meeting Fred Walecki at Westwood Music today. What a sweetheart of a guy!!!!
(he's the one who helped ..design?..Joni's VG-8 so she could tour again. He seems to be in great health, very energetic, incredibly knowledgeable & soooo friendly... he pointed up to where he said he had a bunch of Joni's guitars for sale (1,2, 3, 4 numbered in cases...man, did he have my number! not cheap he said...so, I didn't even want to see them because I would have been in deep deep trouble- Paz I know you know the kind)... we talked a bit about Joni, her tunings, the website & the AMAZING people who figured out her tunings!!!! & how she told him that having her VG-8 was like having a whole new palette... what a nice guy, no wonder everyone did that benefit for him...Kakki, have you met him?...I can imagine the two of you chatting away for hours!!!! Although I didn't buy anything (yet) he walked me to my car (I was lugging 3 guitars) & talked about so many wonderful sound technicalities...I think he is really some kind of genius...on that same level of niceness (for lack of a better word) as Graham Nash ... I just want to buy something from him because he's such a cool guy! ******************************************** Kate Bennett www.katebennett.com sponsored by Polysonics Discover the Indies at Taylor Guitars: http://www.taylorguitars.com/artists/awp/indies/bennett.html ********************************************
