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Will Rusty Young be performing this year? If so has the day been confirmed?
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I checked his website and the calendar. There was no mention of ISGC in St. Louis. I am sure hoping to see him play. One good thing- I get to see POCO this summer! :D :D
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They are playing in Corvalis, Oregon this Friday, about 1.5 hours from where I live.
I might go.
If I do I will ask him about St.Louis.
It is a college event so probably easy to track him down.
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He posted on facebook that it looked likely that he'd be there. :)
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'Looks like I've got my Hall Pass to go to this show!
I just checked and it's not that far, 84.2 mi, 1 hour 28 mins.
Cool!
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If Rusty goes, I go :)
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Post by Pete Burak »

Saw Poco last night and spoke with Rusty.
He said they live in Missouri and are currently planning to go to the convention for the Hall of Fame induction, but he also said he was not really into playing there.
Sounds like it will take some coaxing from those closer to him to get him to play.

Poco sounded good!
He played alot of Dobro and Lap Steel. Also guitar and Mando (he does the intro to Heart of the Night on Mando now).
There was a Pedal Steel on stage, and the drummer told me before the show that he only plays Pedal Steel on the last song of the night.
In the end he just played guitar on the last song instead, so no pedal at all at this gig.

They do a thing where they raffle off his electric guitar (an Epiphone Junior). Unfortunately I didn't win. He signs it and you get a pic with the band. I did buy a 2004 DVD of POCO with Richie Furray and Paul Cotton and George Grantham (before his stroke), playing all the hits, so I am looking forward to watching that.
Also got a few cool Poco guitar picks.
They had sold out of the new CD so I didn't get one.
They had also sold out of black Large t-shirts, so I didn't "get the T-shirt", as they say (my actual size is extra-medium).

Rusty said he is friends with Tommy White and that they have spoken recently and are looking forward to the HOF Induction.
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Maybe if we could fly Richie Furay down for the induction to sing a few tunes, we could persuade Rusty to accompany him...??
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Something like that would be great!
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John Macy, you readin' this, pal...?
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Just read it and I will give him a call... :)
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Maybe Richie can even do the induction honors!!!
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Or... at the least, when they have a significant musical associate who could not be present for the occasion in person, they get a recorded message from them to play over the PA system during the induction ceremony. I sure hope Richie will at least do that, if he can't be there in person... John Macy?
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