Now that I've recovered from NPE 03,.....

O.K.,.... maybe not completely, but I'm thinking I'm due for some more of Randy's ultra creative inspirations, Mary Beth and Ken's instant friendship and comraderie as well as Chip's meaningful insight into the working intricacies of the world around us (Chipper, I think it was the dozen +/- beers and such that was numbing and not your deep, phylisophical conversations. LOL. Man! I still chuckle thinking back to the chatter we had that night!!!). I think I'm going to be quite busy this winter with a couple of projects on the go, but I may arrange for a well timed break to the NPE. I hope SW still puts on the ole' appreciation night. What a spread that was! For those that haven't been before, it's a great place to congragate with others who understand your line of work and just shoot the breeze about whatever. The seminars are good, but the informals (round tables and casual discussions at the SW party) are even better. Plus it opens up all sorts of avenues to connect with people that are "in the know" if you ever need help. It's a great time to sponge information off of others. Not only the ones mentioned above, but I look forward to seeing the Fonz, Robert, Ohio Joe, Dave, Jpanz and a whole bunch of others again. Andrew

I'm in. It's Nashville. Maybe I'll run into Jennifer Nettles....

I was thinking about going as well but was wondering which one does everyone on this forum go to. Las Vegas , Nashville or both?

Some folks like me & Robert who do seminars go to both, most Regulars" go to Nashville though a decent number make Vegas. The Nashville show is a day longer, more stuff to see & do and seminars & such, and they don't do the "hospitality" events in Vegas (last time in Nashville SW rented the entire top level of the Wild Horse saloon or something like that...huge place, they record shows there for Nashville Network & CMT & such, we all wore our tinfoil hats for real, Chip has great skill at designing tinfoil hats ) Both are good shows, if you are on the west cost Vegas makes sense. Or if you love Vegas and want to be able to "write off" a trip to sin city. But to see most of the people from here and actually have more good show-related stuff Nashville will be the place. Hopefully DaFonz will be there and I'm hoping Dille shows up with the 2005 vintage... Nashville is also where in earlier years I debuted the infamous "3 point stance" technique for getting to a taxicab but that's an entire other story...I must have been hallucinating and thought I saw monkeys there that year

That was indeed a very good show. And if I remember right, after we closed the SW party, Andrew quietly indicated that he had a case of good Canadian Molson - The real stuff with alcohol in it - not the watered down US version. My stomach muscles hurt the next day from laughing so hard at Andrews stories.

I guess if I am going I will have to take some real Moosehead. Maybe if I could get the brewery to sponsor the trip I would be able to afford it this year.

I'm not "seminaring" this round but will attend if Andrew is going to be there. It's worth the trip just to hear Andrew's tales. Me too...never laughed so hard.

We make both shows. Vegas it great because its cheaper and its VEGAS, but you sure dont want to miss Nashville either, it has to be one of the best NPE locations.