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Comme à New York, où la population de rats dépasse celle des humains. C'est un superbe graffiti.

remco wrote: Fri May 31, 2024 8:17 pm

Vive la différence! J'aime Paris. This street is in Montmartre?

Ah, yes, the frontier between Williamsburg and Bushwick. I haven't been there in years—way too trendy for this old geezer. A bit different from Paris, no?

Great,
My son is a pilot for AirFrance. mariott hotel in time square then two days of cycling a lot to Brooklyn, Broadway, a bar with music in Greenwich.
Without forgetting my architect side to revisit the history of the first towers in the city.
It was a dream from my youth that came true ...

remco wrote: Thu Mar 07, 2024 9:26 pm PEILLON, LANDREAU, VERGNAUD ?
Rémi

Perhaps Peillon? His surname began with the letter "P." Not much to go on, I suppose.


How was your weekend in New York?

Many years ago on some guitar listserv, I exchanged a few messages with a Parisian named Patrick... (I can't recall his surname) who played guitar in a bluegrass band there. You know him, right?

Remi,

Here are some suggestions. But check with the venues in advance.

https://www.timeout.com/newyork/music/best-bluegrass-music-venues-in-nyc

Saturday, Mar 9

8:00 pm Tone's Bluegrass Jam
Sunny's, 253 Conover St., at Beard, Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY 11231 – 718-625-8211

Weekly https://www ...

It's still there, people. I am shocked that no one has jumped on this instrument.

If it's that good.......... it sounds like something you should beg, barter, trade or sell to purchase. 😏 I certainly wouldn't be telling folks like me to go buy it, we might. 😱


Well, Steve, I am at that point in life at which I am just not buying new guitars (takes too long to break them in ...

I have had three Collings guitars pass through my home because I couldn't bond with them. And I know they were very nice guitars—a 2002 CJMhA, a 2011 D-1A, and a 2014 SJ.

Over the weekend, I spent some time at TR Crandall, in Manhattan, and played a preowned 2021 D-1A that was hands-down the nicest ...