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I just want to thank Larry Behm for going to all the trouble of setting up an entire steel guitar jam just to celebrate my birthday. I had a great time.

Larry, May the fourth be with you!

Hey Tony, I just found out today is your birthday, woops it's past midnight here in Arizona, so a belated happy birthday to the EMMONS KING! And many many more.

Tony, my friend, just for you on the big 65. 40 years ago both learning to play and sharing licks and ideas, wow tell me it hasn't been that long.

At Christmas we dream of sugar plum ferry's dancing through our head, last night I could not turn off the sound of 29 steels, gosh I am tired.

Larry Behm

That was fun!
Nice job by all and thanks to everyone.
Pete

Another awesome jam! It was really great to see everyone...and of course, these things always inspire me to PRACTICE MORE...

Thanks for another great steel jam. Seeing/hearing so many good friends is truly a treat!

Larry Behm, thanks for all you did to organize a great jam, I know it's a lot more work than folks realize. It was similar to Los Angeles Perl Jams, but better in that rides for each player were shorter, just a verse OR chorus, not both, so even with 29 players, it didn't seem too long getting around the horn to all pickers. And the live band played superbly, they have a lot of patience and stamina!

And you went out of your way to make me feel welcome and known to the group, thanks for that. A lot of nice folks and great talent in that bunch! I was quite impressed with the skill levels. I look forward to future gatherings.

Bummed to have missed it. Let's see some pics for us absentee's! Happy Birthday Tony!

Had a great time! Thanks to Larry and everyone there! Great to meet all ya'll! Playin steel with such great folks is really an honor.

That was a memorable one, thanks to everyone who took part, and a special thank you to the folks at the Beaverton Elks for all the love.

Wish I could have been there for the fun. Hopefully I'll make it to the next one.

Jaw dropping photo. Wow.

I counted 31 steel guitar rigs in action around the circle, a few more set aside for sale, and a few guitars were played by more than one person. Thanks to Dennis Lee, Mr. Tommy Overstreet was able to join us. He, brother Ray "Skip" Montee, and several other notable players chose to remain in the audience and enjoy the show, it was a great day to be a NW picker.

A great event, indeed !! Lots of great playing, cool gear, catching up with folks we haven't seen in a year or more. The backup band is perfect and many thanks for the hard work and planning our Steel guitar Ambassador Behm puts into it. As we all know, the best part is just the great comraderie. We are a fortunate lot.

Here is a group photo from the Portland steel jam, was a great turnout with lots of players














These are photos of the band that played for us.

Here are some individual photos of the players at the jam.

Larry, you done it again. You instigator of fun you. Sure appreciate all the pictures of the players and their rigs. I might kill for that LDG. You know me and Birdseye Maple guitars. Kudos to all who made this possible, Roadies, players and the Beaverton Elks, you all rock.

Here are a few more photos, hope we didn't miss anyone.










































Thanks to everyone who organized and participated in this event. Everything worked very smoothly, hope to see everyone next time.

Somehow we missed Pete sitting at his guitar, sorry about that. Here's what we have.

Awesome Jam as always, Bob M, thanks to You and Kathy as well...if it weren't for You Guys We wouldn't be able to keep up the proverbial scrapbook of Our little NW brotherhood Thank Y'all.

and as always a big Note of appreciation to Our local "Ambassador"(as Doug so aptly noted;-))Larry Behm, and also to Our Everready house band Debbie, Kenny & Tim.

There's a lot of photos here, but it appears we did miss a few people somehow. I cannot find a photo of Lynn Stafford other than in the group photo. I will post a couple of others here that I found, sorry about anyone that got missed, Kathy was very busy shooting photos and did try to get everyone.

Lynn Stafford was my right-hand neighbor at the jam, I'm pretty sure his portrait got taken right after mine. Might names be added to pix so I can remember who is who before the next jam? Thanks, if so.

Based on the photos, it appears Emmons guitars were well-represented, followed by several Mullen. Then came the rest of us..... Great jam, many thanks to Larry for taking the lead and getting this one across the finish line. Very much appreciated.... RT

Mullen - 4
Emmons Lagrand - 3
Emmons PP - 12
Sho Bud - 2
Carson Wells - 1
BMI -1
MSA - 1
Sierra - 2
Fender - 1
ZB - 1
GFI - 1

A big guess on my part

Larry Behm

Looks about right, Larry. Lots more push-pull players up here than in SoCal, interestingly. Surprised there were no Carters at all.

Don't see any Zums on the list either.

Craig