Monday, January 23, 2006

NAMM Update

Bob Hartry played guitar at church with me Sunday and we got a chuckle out of the message on unity in the church because it centered around Psalm 133, which reads in part:
1 How good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in unity! 2 It is like precious oil poured on the head, running down on the beard, running down on Aaron's beard...

The references to Lee Sklar are obvious and strangely coincidental. After church, Bob headed back to the NAMM show. He called later that afternoon to report additional Lee Sklar sightings and to tell me about some of the new gear he was checking out.

I failed to mention that the NAMM convention is not open to the public. So, a signficant number of attendees (including Myke and I) must borrow the badges of enrolled guests and assume their identities to gain access to the event. Bob, who had a badge with his own name on it, had been hanging out with a couple friends and hadn't noticed their assumed identities until the end of the day. Shortly thereafter, I received a voice mail on my cell phone from Bob, stunned by what he had just witnessed. The identity assumed by his friend Brandon was shown on the badge with the name LELAND SKLAR on it!

Bobby has reportedly checked into "a hospital" for some "rest and recovery." I'm afraid that I won't see him for a couple of months.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm not sure if I'll ever completely recover. Everytime I close my eyes I see Lee Sklar just staring at me with a slight grin through that "Lord of the Rings" beard of his.

LTA said...

Yes! He's the evil Saruman!