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Will everyone who is still interested in the Clapton bio reply to this thread? What we've been doing is this: a guy/girl reads it, signs and/or comments somewhere as to where it's been, and sends it on to the next guy/girl on the list...everyone pays their own postage...ie, it gets sent to you free, then you pay postage to the next on the list...hopefully it ends up back with me with the colorful, interesting documentation of where it's been...by the by Rollo, you're the next (and to date, last) person on the list...please PM me with your details so Dave can send it to you!

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Larry, I thought I was the last one to get the book and had the honor of returning it to Rod. Did the list get truncated?

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Aoibeann

Well...I WAS on the list last time it was reviewed here, but who knows what the status of it is now.
Yes...I'm still interested.....

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Hank Mauel

Well I misremembered that one. I went and dug up the old thread. Here's the list.

1. Craig Lawrence (Australia)
2. Joel Fallows
3. Claire Arendse
4. Paul Burns
5. Bob Connor
6. Timothy Spittle
7. Kim Hickey
8. Arnt Rian (Norway)
9. Martin Edwards (Ireland)
10. Sam Price (UK)
11. Serge Poirier (Quebec, Canada)
12. Alain Desforges
13. Tom Dowey
14. The Zootman Bob Cefalu
15. Hesh Breakstone
16. JJ Donohue
17. Coe Franklin
18. John Elshaw
19. Paul Woolson
20. John Cavanaugh
21. Bruce Dickey
22. Old Man Ron Wisdom
23. Dave Anderson
24. Michael McBroom
25. Andy Zimmerman
26. Peter Marreiros
27. Ed Barajas
28. Ronn Coates will be moving
29. Hank Mauel & John How
30. Lillian Watson
31. Danny Vincent
32. Shane Neifer
33. Graham Stewart
34. Home to Rod True

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Aoibeann

What happened? Did I get kicked off the list?

Vince

Vince we thought that you moved to China........ Just kidding......

Where is it now and which person gets it next?
Clapton may have to write another book by the time Rod gets this back, well, if he's alive.

1. Craig Lawrence (Australia)
2. Joel Fallows
3. Claire Arendse
4. Paul Burns
5. Bob Connor
6. Timothy Spittle
7. Kim Hickey
8. Arnt Rian (Norway)
9. Martin Edwards (Ireland)
10. Sam Price (UK)
11. Serge Poirier (Quebec, Canada)
12. Alain Desforges
13. Tom Dowey
14. The Zootman Bob Cefalu
15. Hesh Breakstone
16. JJ Donohue
17. Coe Franklin
18. John Elshaw
19. Paul Woolson
20. John Cavanaugh
21. Bruce Dickey
22. Old Man Ron Wisdom
23. Dave Anderson
24. Michael McBroom
25. Andy Zimmerman
26. Peter Marreiros
27. Ed Barajas
28. Ronn Coates will be moving
29. Hank Mauel & John How
30. Lillian Watson
31. Danny Vincent
32. Shane Neifer
33. Graham Stewart
34. Home to Rod True

Nice list of folks ay!
I see Hank and John are co-reading the book, that may take up to a full case of brew!



A few tears while we wait....

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http://www.dickeyguitars.com

Ok, just so we're all on the same page (no pun intended)...this is the travelling Clapton bio that I started around...not the Handmedown OLF'er that Rod started...but, since we have a list...if everyone who is interested in Clapton will reply to this thread from here, we'll keep it going....

Thanks!

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Please stick me in that list. He's one of my hero's, right after Hendrix.

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"After forty-nine years of violin building, I have decided that the search for a varnish is similar to the fox hunt. The fun is in the hunt."
Jack Batts Maker and Repairer of Fine Violins

Good one Hesh. Touche!

Vinman

OK...Who's on first? I don't know's on second.........

For WHAT book title was the original reading list established? And where is it now?
I thought it was a Claption book, but that was several years ago and my memory dims with each passing day. The list in this thread is the one I remember signing up for, but it doesn't contain a book title.

I'll read whatever arrives at my door, presuming I live long enough to see it, or "them".

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Hank Mauel

From the looks of things, Rod True started a book around before I did...I actually got the idea from a thread here, and had just finished the Clapton bio and so I started it around via a PM list of names...but Dave Higham has no one to send it to now...seems some of the folks who'd signed up are no longer here...so, we need a new list for my book...Hank, you're right...we may be reading Eric's obit (God forbid!) by the time the list is complete!

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Larry buddy let me please reaffirm that I would like to be on the list to receive the book. I have already read it and it was great - a good read, but I want to share in the OLF spirit that this book represents and sign it too.

Thanks for doing this!

Rods book is called "Claptons guitar" -The story of Wayne Henderson building one guitar
for Clapton and one for the author Allen St. John.
Larrys is called "Clapton-the autobiography" about Claptons life story . Correct ?

Hey Larry -I would like to be on the list for your book too! Thanks...

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Anderson Guitars
Clearwater,Fl. 33755

OK! I'm in for BOTH books.
You can get my shipping address of my web site.

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Hank Mauel

Well, I've still got the Autobiography and I'll wait for Larry to tell me who to send it to next. I don't know how many people have read it because, up to now, nobody's signed it or made a comment . All I can tell is that someone who's read it smokes cigars .

Actually, I'd have liked to be on the 'Clapton's Guitar' list too but I thought the list was closed. Am I too late?

You are CORRECT SIR! (Channeling Ed McMahon here )...and Dave, you are now on the list!

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WHAT? Man, nobody's signed it? Bummer! Okay, we begin again...Dave, send it to Chuck Hutchison in Herrin, IL...Chuck send Dave your details...when you're done with it Chuck, it goes to Hank Mauel...Hank sends it to Hesh in Ann Arbor and Hesh sends it to Dave Anderson in Port Richey, FL...and we'll go from there...and oh yeah...SIGN the thing!!!!

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Thanks Larry,
I'm about half-way through it now. Very interesting book. I will indeed sign it and send it to Big Hank.
Hank, PM me your full address and I'll shoot it your way in a couple weeks.

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"After forty-nine years of violin building, I have decided that the search for a varnish is similar to the fox hunt. The fun is in the hunt."
Jack Batts Maker and Repairer of Fine Violins

PM sent.

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Hank Mauel

Just had a "wild hair" idea...how about the luthiers that read the book add a business card to it before sending on? We could tape/glue them onto the inside front/back covers, blank pages at the beginning/end of the book or some third choice to be decided.
This would give someone, someday, an ancient history track of who we were and what we did...should they care!

Any opinions??????

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Hank Mauel

Sweet!

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I just received the book today from Vinman who I had the pleasure of meeting in person in A2 last month.

I was touched by the hand written entries from around the world and now it's making the hoime stretch across the USA.

Rod, you'll be happy to know that the book is physically intact and I promise that it will remain so as I send it off to brother Hesh next.

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JJ
Napa, CA
http://www.DonohueGuitars.com

Very cool JJ,

The book you have is of course as you know the book I started in Feb 07'.

This thread is about a book that Larry started some time after that, but it's good to know where my book is at (the tracking for my book is in the off topics section).

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Hey Rod,

I was number 4 in the list, now I don't get to see what everyone else wrote in it

How about; when you get it back, send it round again!