G&L guitars was gracious enough to host an open house, banquet, jam session last friday, july 18. it was held at the fullerton marriott and it's a must-attend event for me. they started out with an open house tour of the factory and a fantastic carne asada buffet for lunch. super-picker will ray did some question and answer clinics throughout the day ("are the hellecasters getting back together?" yawn...). and then we all headed over to the marriott to work out some tunes will and i do together. throughout the night various people came up to jam on their G&L's with the backup band. there was some hot blues pickers and some young upstarts who put me to shame (and brought their beloved asat's to the buffet line!). i finally resorted to my trusty gretsch (much to some dyed in the wool G&L player's chagrin) and ran thru some standards with will blazing away as only a crazy man can do. i think we broke all records for the longest version of "knockin on heaven's door". thank you G&L!