Blanc said that to celebrate, she would pull out her acoustic guitar tonight and play a song she had written for Cavagnoud.
Oceansize's Mike Vennart is clearly chuffed to be playing second guitar tonight for Ayrshire's most famous musical trio, and Neil's words come in the midst of a promise to prise the incongruous pink estate-agent shirt from Vennart's back by the end of the evening.
The stage was farther back from the front rows than in the smaller arenas, where Mr. Springsteen leaned into the fans, even let them strum his guitar, and last night, he seemed at times to struggle with the urge to run down and touch everybody.
Indeed, he is even enthusiastic about an interview he did with a guitar magazine this morning, which sounds, to the unqualified observer at least, like a protracted attempt to bore the former teen idol to death.
Ms. DeMent switched back and forth between piano and guitar all night and was accompanied by a deferential group of pros — Jason Wilber on guitar, Jon Graboff on pedal steel and mandolin, Kyle Kegerreis on bass and Bryan Owings on drums.
This is Guitar Hero night, where curious bar patrons, self-styled bad boys and video game addicts, all usually a drink or two deep, play the game Guitar Hero on a big screen, and fulfill their dreams of being a preening, prancing rock 'n' roll frontman.
Now the Roadie 2 intends to tune your guitar all night and tune your guitar every day.
The rest is pretty standard – GMT, date, chrono – but trust me: this thing shines like a National guitar at night.
Doers and doings in business, entertainment and technology: Hector Ruiz Hector Ruiz, chief executive of chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices, capped a busy couple of weeks by picking up a guitar Thursday night at a company event in New York.
The noise was still deafening in the extreme, but it now came from fireworks by day and electric guitars by night.
