Wednesday in Memphis

After arriving at 4:30 am and getting about four hours sleep, we (Wilbur and family) started to explore Memphis. Had lunch at "Huey's" that was recommended by the desk. Great burger and fries place with a pub atmosphere. Then walked down Second Street til we came to Beale Street, where most of the events will be happening over the next three days. Right off Beale we checked out the FedEx Forum (had a Grizzlies game that night-the scalpers were already out), set up a tour of the Gibson factory for Thursday, and went to the Rock n' Soul Museum. Spent about an hour and a half doing a visual and audio history of the development of music in the Memphis area. ...interesting.
Kyle and family spent the entire day at Graceland. Not only did they tour the mansion but also got aboard the "Little Marie", Elvis's private 747 Boeing jet....complete with gold fixtures. The number of gold records and awards that Elvis received is unbelievable. Kyle and myself had quite a talk on that....plus seeing a mansion still with the 70's decore is like a trip back in time. As I reminded Kyle, that is was before he was born..bg
At 5:00, Matt, rich and Dave arrived.....unfortunately I missed picking them up at the airport.. my wife and others were still 'shopping' and forgot about the time....they grabbed a taxis to the hotel and arrived fine.....Matt even had a few stories to tell about the trip.....Matt usually does..bg.
The band met for the 6-7:30 social hour at the hotel. We planned out tomorrow's registration, et.c and spent most of the time talking with a couple of other bands who are also in the IBC competition...it was shop talk at it's finest...let about twelve musicians get together and you'll see what I mean........pics are coming but I need to get ahold of the camera's....later.
wilbur