In Between sets there was an auction. I was standing next to Steve Cropper and the auction guy pulled out this Great looking Green Onion Cropper Classic Guitar. I was drooling. Steve was kinda busy looking at stuff and the guy ask me if I could tune it so Steve could play it and auction it off. I said sure and grabbed the guitar and ran into the restroom(great acoustics in restrooms) and tuned the guitar. guys were coming through and looking at the guitar and saying "did you buy that already" I told them no I was just tuning it up. I brought it back out to Cropper and handed it to him. He told me that Peavey was having trouble keeping up with demand and thay had made this one up just for him. It was awsome. He signed the guitar and then proceeded to go to the stage to auction it off. The auction ask me how much he should start bidding at and I told him it was a thousand dollar guitar. He announced the guitar for auction and said it was autographed and tuned by the Master Tuner himself...hehe Ive been called a lot of things but...anyway I wonder about them guys in the bathroom..hehe. So Steve plugged in the guitar to play it. and if all you folk that play guitar or have bought a guitar before know that the guitar companies love to put these little cards on the guitars attached by a string. well the wind was starting to blow pretty good andjust when steve strummed the guitar he little card fell between the string s and it went "clang" Steve shrugged his sholders and I pointed to the card and he saw it, moved it out of the way and played. It sounded great....WHEW. The bidding started and I was right there and Carol told me go for it ...I yelled out "One Thou" and before the words came out someone yelled 2 thousand and it went from there. the guitar sold for 4800.00 US. Way to rich for me. THe blues Brothers got back on stage and Eddie Floyd got on also, By this time it was getting kinda cold but they did a great set.

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