the drive from berkeley to santa cruz took us around 90 minutes. as my friend oivind, always the well oriented, already knew his way around town from earlier visits and I had directions to Rick Walkers house on my cell phone, it wasnt to hard to find Rick Walkers house. When we got there Rick was mounting some effects into a rack with the rack placed on his work bench, a very old, big and rusty american car. As he was running a bit late for our improv session at Meta Records downtown he asked us to take a look around inside the house. Rick's house is a dream for any musician, and can be turned into a theme park for imagination and improvisation any time. Before we had had time to check out more than a very little part of his collection, Rick was ready. I packed the Fender Strat I was to borrow into a gig bag and off we drove to the main street. The Meta Records store is a small nice place filled with vinyl records. Rick put up is stuff in the corner, went one more trip back home to get some more, and was almost ready by the time people had gathered around him to listen. He gave us a set with the most varied and imaginative collection of instruments and sounds. This man is a true sorcerer of sound and colourful pvc. I went on an hour later and did a short stretch alone before Rick seamlessly made his way into my playing. We played for another half hour.
It became an evening i shall never forget. In may, Rick goes to Europe, and when he reaches the shores of scandinavia we will meet again to play. looking forward to that greatly!
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