Wednesday wrap-up

So I had chocolate chip pancakes at the artists cafe, they were great. Then we got to Thursday convention center late, so we snuck into the first performance without out name badges because we hadn't gone through registration yet. The group was awesome. It was some various chamber groups from the presidents own marine band. The clarinet choir was nuts. Then I ran to the first percussion clinic of the convention, and the little girl at the door wouldn't let me in without my nametag, so I had to go wait in the crazy long line, and I ended up missing the first 10 minutes, but the remainder of it was really good. Then I wandered around the exhibits for a few hours. I thanked the guys at Row-Loff and had my picture taken with them, (they're the elves), then I met the drumming legend Matt Savage and talked with him about his new percussion piece Into the Village, and talked to him about how I got to share a cd with him because I was on this year's Row-Loff cd too. He was a really cool guy. He is the one in the white shirt with me in the Pro-Mark booth. Then Hodge and I talked with Michael Markowski for quite a while at the Manhattan beach music booth. Sorry, no picture for that. Then we saw the presidents own marine band. They were awesome. They played the world premiere of "Passages" by Scott Lindroth. That was really cool, but the best piece was their transcription of Stravinsky's Firebird. It was spectacular. I tried to get a picture of them, but its pretty lousy. Sorry.
After all the music, me, Hodge, Stevens, billy, and jenna went to gino's east for some pizza, that's where the picture of all the words on the wall was taken. Then unfortunately, my phone started to die, so my flash wouldn't work, and the picture of the pizza came out kind of bad. After gino's, we were walking back to the hotel and some guy walked up to us and basically forced a shoe shine on billy, and stevens, and then swindled billy out of $30. It was crazy. I'm going to be sure to give Billy a really hard time tomorrow. Wow, I just looked at the clock, and its midnight, I've got to go. Later...

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