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Montana Meetup Video Is Online
Sorry it’s taken so long to put this together, but I finally have completed the slideshow video for the Montana Meetup we held a few weeks ago. Besides the usual still photos, I’ve included some snippets of video that @6foot2inhighheels captured, from one of the parties, from the recording of Ricochet Silent Radio: Who Killed Invisible Television, and from Flyover Country — Wives Edition. For the background music I had to include at least one Don Williams song, since he died during the meetup.
If you haven’t read the official post-meetup report, @rushbabe49 has written it in three parts.
I better also put up a link to the post by @garymcvey where you can listen to the first audio version of Ricochet Silent Radio.
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I’m glad you the Wives Takeover in there. I didn’t do as bad at being Terry as i thought. @kaladin
Awesome!! Thanks to Randy for all that work. We did have so much fun!
Oh I’m definitely gonna make one of these some day.
Great stuff! But where was the time-honored “Hi, Nanda!”? :-)
Wow, that looks great! The scenery, the food, the drinks–above all, the company. What a bunch of wonderful people!
A fine job, Randy. “There’s a Mist in Your Eyes From the Smoke of a Distant Fire”, an inspired choice.
I enjoyed the RSR outtakes quite a bit. Being there is something I cannot quite imagine, but if I happened to be there the Silent Radio outtakes seemed like the place to be.
Very nice. Thank you.
RSR would be honored to host your vocal chords any and every time you can be coaxed away from the subterranean levels of Black Base Thirteen. We certainly wrote you into plenty of the silent shows, if we ever get around to adapting those for real live talk. Maybe we can write in a part you can do from home. “Calling Margaret Twelve. This is Sailcloth Twelve. Pick up the damn phone, Margaret.”
The meetup does look wonderful. What did Henry V say? “Let he who is not with us today forever hold his manhood cheap”, something like that. Well, that expressive image is too harsh. It was too tough for some of us to make the trip, but what’s amazing is how many people did.
Thanks, Randy. Loved the interspersing of the video, so thank to Melissa, too.
There is a discussion underway on having a big weekend meetup in coastal Maine next year. Perhaps in Camden, likely in summer or very early fall. There is a strong possibility that if it happens, someone will rent a vacation home like we did in Montana.
Thank you, Gary. I also thought about using the Sawyer Brown song, Smokin’ in the Rockies. Using two songs about smoke would have been overplaying that hand, though, and the length of the song and the length of the gaps between videos came out in favor of the Sanford-Townsend Band song.
I can tell you that you were discussed at the meetup. RushBabe in particular expressed her love and respect for you.
Noticed you had a picture of 2 bears that had Jason captioned on the bottom. Which one was Jason? Were they both Jason? Also the berry pie looked delicious but it had a real unequal distribution of berries spread throughout the pie. It looks like most of you had a great time except for the person who got the short end of the stick on the berry pie.
Man I sure have pretty red hair!
It’s actually huckleberry cobbler, not pie. The way most people make it, cobbler is supposed to be kind of random-looking rather than having dead straight lines. If there were any complaint about the cobbler, I didn’t hear them. I do think it’s cute in the one video segment hearing @kelsurprise ask, “What’s with the huckleberry obsession?”
And there’s copious footage of everyone stuffing their faces with that cobbler. It was delicious, and kudos to Sarah who made them (there were two, and they may have lasted about 30 minutes before being completely consumed).
Great job, Randy.
That cobbler was riDICulous.
That cobbler is responsible for MY newfound huckleberry obsession.
Oooooh, that’s a great idea for a new scent: Huckleberry Obsession . . . I’m going to get started on the ad copy now so we can run it in the next RSR installment.
That is a genius idea. By the way, we did have some huckleberries left over, so froze them and brought them home. Sunday night Katie is coming over and we’re going to make huckleberry milkshakes. Might have to drop in a little bit of vanilla rum.
Why vanilla?
At the meetup Katie did a little experimentation and discovered that the Cruzan Vanilla Rum made an excellent complement to the Huckleberry Sweet Cream Liqeuer. I tried it and she was right. So I’m thinking that it ought to go well in a huckleberry milkshake as well.
But won’t the ice cream be vanilla?
Yes.
This has to be the best ad ever for Ricochet Meetups. Makes us wish we’d retired a month early!
Another superb job, Randy!
Thanks for doing this. Yes, it’s an excellent ad for the site, and also a great memento.
Distillery? Did somebody say Distillery?
Cigars??? Looks like a blast with great people.
Well done, Randy!
And didn’t anybody tell Melissa she’s not the boss of you!
Maybe some day we’ll have to put together a weekend meetup in the Louisville area, and do the Kentucky Bourbon Trail tour. Let’s see, there’s already talk about the big 2018 meetup in Maine, @juliesnapp and I are thinking over a plan for 2019, maybe Kentucky in 2020?
But maybe two a year, west of the Mississippi and one east? One in late, late winter/spring and one late summer/fall?
I suggested 2019 in Memphis to Dave.
Whether it’s in Las Vegas or California, I’m sure there will be another large western meetup in the next year or so. I haven’t heard any chatter to that effect but they happen kind of regularly. When they had the 200th Ricochet podcast, they had an extravaganza in California. They’re up to episode 371 now, so I wouldn’t be surprised if the founders put on another big shindig for #400.
I forgot about that one, I was thinking of the Black Hills idea for 2019. But you could make Memphis Plan A and if that doesn’t come together, Plan B is the Black Hills.