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Speaker 1: Tommy Emmanuel is going to be live in concert at

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Speaker 1: the Riverside Theater Thursday, May the twenty ninth. Tickets are

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Speaker 1: available through ticket Tek. He's joining us now from Nashville, Tennessee.

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Speaker 1: Good morning.

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Speaker 2: Been a long time since in rock and roll.

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Speaker 3: Hey, indeed it has. You know, it's great to hear

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Speaker 3: that track again.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, and yeah, Alan Mansfield, who wrote most of

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Speaker 4: that song with Mark Hunter, had passed away just recently.

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Speaker 4: And yeah, yeah, but the band that that band was

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Speaker 4: so great and I had I had quite a few

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Speaker 4: years there of.

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Speaker 3: Great tours and gigs and seeing the world. You know,

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Speaker 3: I had a birthday in Paris and then the next

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Speaker 3: next birthday was somewhere really weird, like Hong Kong, and

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Speaker 3: you know, it was just like all over the world.

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Speaker 3: It was great.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a great vocal from Mark Hunter there. But Todd

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Speaker 2: Hunter and his wife Johanna wrote a song Coodn't I

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Speaker 2: There was some great tunes.

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Speaker 3: They certainly, they certainly could write, There's no doubt about that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's good to hear boys.

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Speaker 3: Man. Actually, when we were on tour with Tina Turner

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Speaker 3: in eighty seven, eighty seven, yes, we had three that

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Speaker 3: we had three days off in Amsterdam, and we're studying

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Speaker 3: in this hotel and Todd and Joanna were next door

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Speaker 3: to me in the next room, and all I heard

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Speaker 3: all day was don't, don't don't. They don't, don't, don't.

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Speaker 3: They were writing. They were writing Age of Reason.

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Speaker 2: Oh wow, cool lay on.

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Speaker 5: A three day layoff.

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Speaker 2: That is awesome for some other like we know pretty well.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, speaking of great shows, your show is going

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Speaker 1: to be great. I'm intrigued. It's called the CGP Live

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Speaker 1: in Concert Show. Tell us the story behind c GP.

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Speaker 1: I was wondering if it stood for clever guitar person.

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Speaker 3: Now it's corny guitar player.

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Speaker 2: As well.

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Speaker 3: Listen, in my show, there will be a few songs

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Speaker 3: between the jokes.

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Speaker 5: There is a story though it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, well, chet Atkins, the great Man, invented this thing.

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Speaker 3: He basically spent back in the eighties. He he made

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Speaker 3: a statement that you know, people go to to a

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Speaker 3: college or a university for three years and study, and

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Speaker 3: you will listen, then they get letters after their names,

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Speaker 3: you know, PSC and all that stuff, and he said,

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Speaker 3: and we spend we spend our whole life trying to

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Speaker 3: make the world a better place with our music and

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Speaker 3: give people a good time and bring people together with

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Speaker 3: music them and we get we really get nothing but

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Speaker 3: Applaus to show for it, you know. And he said,

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Speaker 3: you know, so somebody who does that deserves to have

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Speaker 3: some kind of thing. And anyway, so I saw the

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Speaker 3: original CGP idea and it was on the wall at

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Speaker 3: at Chet's house, and I saw that there were fifty

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Speaker 3: signatures on it, and it was the governor of every

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Speaker 3: state in America signed up on it. And so a

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Speaker 3: few of us have this award. The first The first

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Speaker 3: guy was Jerry Reid, Yes, and then and then there

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Speaker 3: was John Knowles, Steve Warrener and myself and I was

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Speaker 3: the last one.

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Speaker 4: And I'm the youngest one, the baby.

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Speaker 3: Yeah that's me. Yeah, there's anyway.

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Speaker 2: Another couple of initial should be after your name since

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Speaker 2: last spoke, and that is g W Winner.

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Speaker 1: Congratulations, Tom, congratulations, don't forget O.

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Speaker 3: I M on the end. Yeah I did that.

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Speaker 2: It was the acoustic version of Johnny Cash's Fallsom Prison Blues.

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Speaker 2: That must have been a big night for you.

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Speaker 3: Well it was pretty I'm you know, like, this is

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Speaker 3: what I love about being in the music business. Anything

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Speaker 3: is possible, anything is possible and anything can can happen.

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Speaker 3: But you know, I got a call from Johnny Cash's son,

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Speaker 3: John Carter, and and he said, there's this stand out here,

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Speaker 3: a girl and two guys and the and I knew

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Speaker 3: them because they were my opening app went in Prague

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Speaker 3: about ten years ago. Anyway. So he said, they're doing my, My,

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Speaker 3: My Daddy's song and no one's playing the melody, and

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Speaker 3: do you think you could come out and do that?

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Speaker 3: And I said, I'm sure, good yea. So it was,

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Speaker 3: and it was like it was miraculous chiming because I

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Speaker 3: had just got home from a tour and I had

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Speaker 3: to head out again the next night, and so I

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Speaker 3: raced out to Hendersonville where it lives and where Johnny

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Speaker 3: Cash's house and studio and that is. And I was

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Speaker 3: there all of forty five minutes. I listened to their

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Speaker 3: arrangement and then I played played the melody and I

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Speaker 3: did two passes. I played a couple of licks, and they.

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Speaker 6: Videoed a bit of me playing while they were recording me,

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Speaker 6: and then we all got a photo and I left

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Speaker 6: and I didn't think any more about it, you know,

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Speaker 6: And about three months later, my manager rang me and

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Speaker 6: said guess what, We've got a nomination for this because.

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Speaker 3: They put because I came out and took the melody,

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Speaker 3: they put my name on it as well as there,

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Speaker 3: which was very nice of them. And so it was

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Speaker 3: just like, you know, it's just one of those things

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Speaker 3: that happened. And then something told me, you know, because

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Speaker 3: I wasn't going to go to the Grammys, but my

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Speaker 3: manager said, well, do you want to go or not?

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Speaker 3: And I just I just said yes, I want to go,

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Speaker 3: and he's just you know, and so I did, and

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Speaker 3: I'll just never forget I'm in the audience and miss

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Speaker 3: miss Patty Austin, one of my favorite singers, was was

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Speaker 3: hosting that segment and she sang out and it's false

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Speaker 3: and prison blues like that, and I can hardly believe

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Speaker 3: my ears. And everybody screamed and ran around like like

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Speaker 3: chickens with their heads got off. Glad you went.

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Speaker 5: You almost didn't. Guy, You know what would be a

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Speaker 5: dream show for me?

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Speaker 1: You joining Text Perkins on the Man on the Man

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Speaker 1: in Black, You on the guitar text doing the Johnny.

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Speaker 7: Cash if you've got the time, yeah right by Now

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Speaker 7: you've got an uploming live album coming out in March

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Speaker 7: as well as the tour.

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Speaker 5: This is live at the Sydney Opera House.

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Speaker 1: As I mean, I've never been a performer, but I imagine

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Speaker 1: if you are, the Sydney Opera House would just be

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Speaker 1: the you know, the the pivotal moment for live performance.

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Speaker 1: Do you love performing there?

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Speaker 3: Really? I do? I mean I like playing anywhere that

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Speaker 3: The Opera House was always a goal of mine when

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Speaker 3: I was I was young, and you know, I'll never

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Speaker 3: forget going there to see certain artists and all that

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Speaker 3: sort of stuff. And I thought, oh, man, sitting in

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Speaker 3: up there, you know, and and you know, like anything else,

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Speaker 3: you know, we we Aussie battlers. We we stick at

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Speaker 3: it and and we we don't quit until we get

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Speaker 3: it right. And I'll just never forget the first few

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Speaker 3: times I played there and they did a total refurbishing

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Speaker 3: of the place and made the sound. The sound in

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Speaker 3: there suddenly became as good as the venue, you know, right,

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Speaker 3: And so we decided because it was in the old

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Speaker 3: days there were ware there was way too much echoing. Yeah, yeah, well,

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Speaker 3: and I understand that because that halls like that are

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Speaker 3: built for orchestras and singers, you know, and and so

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Speaker 3: nowadays you can have a young fellow with these cigar

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Speaker 3: box up there snaking the plant as loud as you want,

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Speaker 3: and it sounds great.

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Speaker 2: Sounds good, sound of that. I love that respecting between museos,

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Speaker 2: especially guitarists. And we caught up with Steve I, one

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Speaker 2: of the one of the most outlet men on the planet.

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Speaker 2: He had this to say about you earlier this year

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Speaker 2: on ninety six am. Also, yeah, genius.

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Speaker 3: He is an absolutely brilliant player. Yeah. One of the

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Speaker 3: questions I get asked all the time is who's the

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Speaker 3: best guitar player in the world, which is kind of

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Speaker 3: a silly question, you know. I usually go off and

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Speaker 3: wax on about well, there's no best, you know, there's

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Speaker 3: a there's only opinions, and there's now I just say

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Speaker 3: Tommy Manuel, yeah, woah man, all those chicks of me. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: he's a very dear friend. He's a very dear friend

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Speaker 3: of mine. And human human Jotriani always always are always

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Speaker 3: waxing about me, and I'm I can't believe it.

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Speaker 1: You know, you should maybe, like you know, the Three

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Speaker 1: Tenors used to do, we could get the three three,

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Speaker 1: I'll never forget.

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Speaker 3: Jean and I pray together one and and we we

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Speaker 3: called Steve on the phone and Joe said, listen, I'm

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Speaker 3: thinking we should do this G three thing and we'll

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Speaker 3: get Tommy and we'll all play at Kussie. And I

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Speaker 3: can hear Steve ya saying no, no, the hell with

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Speaker 3: that idea.

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Speaker 1: No, actually it's a bad idea.

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Speaker 2: Keep up with sach. Just speaking about guitars, guitar nerds

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Speaker 2: are known. Many of them love to come to your gigs.

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Speaker 2: What's it like having a certain percentage of the audience

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Speaker 2: staring at your hands for two hours? Because I know

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Speaker 2: what happens, I've seen.

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Speaker 3: It, So I always say to them it doesn't matter

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Speaker 3: where you're sitting and how close you it's not going

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Speaker 3: to help.

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Speaker 2: True, So true.

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Speaker 5: Well, Tommy, it's really lovely to catch up with you.

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Speaker 1: We'll afford to having your town at the Riverside Theater

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Speaker 1: for the Tommy Emmanuel CGP Live in Concert show. Tickets

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Speaker 1: are available through ticket Tech. Have a lovely Christmas and

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Speaker 1: New Year, and we'll a you in Mike.

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Speaker 3: Good to talk to you man, Thank you so much

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Speaker 3: for you too, and happy Christmas.

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Speaker 2: Every month just see you at the gig, might all

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Speaker 2: the best