On Friday the 20th I boarded a plane headed for Cleveland to surprise my good friend Jon Guggenheim. Prior arrangements had been made for our mutual fishing partner, Mark Lee (former Omaha TV Channel 3 meteorologist) to pick me up at the Cleveland airport as he drove in from Pennsylvania, and so we both arrived at Jon’s house just after Jon made it home from his Cleveland recording studio C-Town Sound. Another friend of ours EJ was not able to make it in from the Chicago area while recovering from an illness. Additionally we did have representation from our Omaha friend/fisherman, Jim who forwarded a walker to help Jon celebrate (to make sure he could still get on stage in his old age – Thanks Jim!!).
Jon worked with me here at Tesco Productions for several years following about twelve years of independent audio engineering in the Los Angeles, CA area. I learned a lot while he was here including a “big picture” perspective based on his years of experience in much larger facilities. Along the way Jon introduced me to fishing (which I hadn’t done since childhood) and all I can say is that apparently God wanted me to do something besides work all the time. I’ve never had a day of fishing like that since. Not so incidently, I discovered not too long after making some changes of work load and taking some time to relax with fishing, that I had a lethal level of high cholesterol which if left uncorrected much longer would have very likely meant I wouldn’t be writing this story today. So, from still missing his “good morning” and prodding to get out fishing much more than I do, you can see I literally have reason to thank him for potentially saving my life.
Jon’s band Guggy’s Rock N’ Roll 101 was key feature for an extended music celebration Friday evening. A number of Jon’s clients/friends were on the stage that evening as he has the same problem of somehow turning clients into friends (love it when that happens!). The following afternoon the 3 Muskateers (that’s us) found ourselves touring the Rock ‘N Roll Hall of Fame. There’s a lot to see including the history of modern recording. Saturday evening we were all invited to Jon’s parents’ place for a multi-birthday celebration that included some of Jon’s relatives. But no trip would be complete without at least attempting to get out and wet a line and so Sunday morning we squeezed in about an hour of trout fishing before we all headed back home.
Jon, hope and pray you have many more and thanks for everything!
