How LONG did it take YOU................to be come a success

Rick Campbell · Post by **Rick Campbell** » 7 May 2009 8:45 pm

Del McCoury used to have a 4104 with a wood stove in it.

Michael Dene · Post by **Michael Dene** » 7 May 2009 8:47 pm

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Hey Alan!!! Is that you??? Alan Brookes???

How about that , .... I thought I recognised you. ......I must be the first person to do that!!!!

Feel better now?>

John P. Phillips · Post by **John P. Phillips** » 7 May 2009 11:40 pm

I always just aspired to be #2. Everybody else claimed the #1 spot. OBTW, what the heck is a LIMO ?

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 8 May 2009 2:12 pm

Michael Dene wrote:Hey Alan!!! Is that you??? Alan Brookes???
How about that , .... I thought I recognised you. ......I must be the first person to do that!!!!
Feel better now?>

Yes, fame at last.

Ron ! · Post by **Ron !** » 8 May 2009 4:21 pm

About a year ago. After 25 years, I played a little song and my wife came into the room and said " Sweetheart, that sounded great". I knew then I had arrived.

I think that that is more satisfying then whatever record deal ever.

I played on more then 150 songs my wife recorded here in our studio.Karen wrote over 5200 songs but most of them were done a while back before I got to know her.

Some musicians over here come to a gig when I am filling in but the regulars (listeners) don't even know my name.
So...I am pretty famous in the neighborhood

but that's about it I guess.

Ron

Rich Peterson · Post by **Rich Peterson** » 8 May 2009 4:28 pm

"How LONG did it take YOU................to be come a success?"

I figure about 10 or 15 years more.

James Cann · Post by **James Cann** » 8 May 2009 6:13 pm

Well, the long wait for the limo is over! Next week, they tell me!

James Cann · Post by **James Cann** » 8 May 2009 6:14 pm

Well, the long wait for the limo is over! Next week, they tell me!

James Cann · Post by **James Cann** » 8 May 2009 6:16 pm

Well, the long wait for the limo is over! Next week, they tell me!

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 8 May 2009 6:24 pm

James Cann wrote:Well, the long wait for the limo is over! Next week, they tell me!

It's going to be like waiting for a bus. You wait for hours and then three come along.

LJ Eiffert · Post by **LJ Eiffert** » 8 May 2009 8:34 pm

I knew it when they started remembering my first name,U. LJ or was it Leo?

Bill Moran · Post by **Bill Moran** » 8 May 2009 8:59 pm

Just got a gig for next Saturday ! Guess I made it !? Times are hard.
I will have to admit that after 20 years of not playing, the old band is having a good encore.
The people that followed us years ago are back.
I think COUNTRY MUSIC is coming back . People, in
my area, are tired of Tucker and ZZ.
Could be the tight money. The older croud are going to the club and not going to the beach !! Things are looking UP. Our book is getting full .

Nick Reed · Post by **Nick Reed** » 8 May 2009 10:11 pm

I'm workin on my 2nd million right now. That's because I gave up on my 1st one.

Jim Bob Sedgwick · Post by **Jim Bob Sedgwick** » 8 May 2009 10:17 pm

John P.Phillips wrote:I always just aspired to be #2. Everybody else claimed the #1 spot. OBTW, what the heck is a LIMO ?

John, a Limo is short for Limousine, as in "Long Black Limousine". I never got to ride in the back of one, but I drove plenty of them as a funeral director. They are somewhat over rated. I had a family member ask me one time what kind of mileage they got. I told him about 21 MPG. That's 10 in town and 11 on the road.

Barry Blackwood · Post by **Barry Blackwood** » 9 May 2009 5:58 am

How LONG did it take YOU................to be come a success

At 66, I'm still working on it ...... not.

Roual Ranes · Post by **Roual Ranes** » 9 May 2009 6:03 am

Limo? Well, I started playing in 1951 and in 1957 the band was transported to gig by Limo. Now don't get yer hopes up of doing things that fast. We were at a Navy base in the Phillipine Islands and had a gig in a near by town. They sent the Limo.

Ellis Miller · Post by **Ellis Miller** » 9 May 2009 8:32 am

How long????

Pretty soon

Rich Peterson · Post by **Rich Peterson** » 9 May 2009 8:34 am

Ellis Miller wrote:How long????

Pretty soon

Ellis, I wish I had your optimism.

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 9 May 2009 8:44 am

Tony Prior wrote:I was told the Limo was on it's way, I stood outside waiting for 30 years, it never arrived, so I went back in the house and had lunch.

I no longer use limos. Since my red-hot country hit "I Dropped My Tone Bar Down My Underpants" set the charts alight I just use my Lear Jet and helicopter.

Mike Bowles · Post by **Mike Bowles** » 12 May 2009 3:13 pm

i made a fortune saturtday night 10 big ones is that enough to vaccum a limo i just do it for enjoyment anyway i just play simple leads makes it easy for everbody when the band all get together not real bad never make nashville but done for fun dont take much for me have to travel long way to play we get to open mtn man back up next month i only have to walk across the street happy about that gods been good to me had 4 strokes about 8 months ago still able to beat around on my 52 tele and my mullen thanks for listening mike

Ken Lang · Post by **Ken Lang** » 12 May 2009 7:00 pm

I'm just glad I made it this far.

Brint Hannay · Post by **Brint Hannay** » 12 May 2009 7:57 pm

Great answer, Ken!

Joe Smith · Post by **Joe Smith** » 12 May 2009 8:04 pm

I'm still waiting for my ship to come in. So far it's only been a row boat.

Ron ! · Post by **Ron !** » 12 May 2009 8:08 pm

It took me 36 years to get where I am at now.Very happy that I made it this far and still able to make new things and tunes on this iron board.

Ron

Jody Sanders · Post by **Jody Sanders** » 12 May 2009 8:21 pm

Been working on it 63 years, but haven't gotten ther yet. Jody.

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