Don YOUNG, the head honcho of NATIONAL GUITARS in JAPAN

[Rambling Steve Gardner]

We have been having big fun this week with the one and only Don YOUNG, the head honcho of NATIONAL GUITARS, what a wild man! Don was kind enough to look over my worn boxes lending an adjusting hand while offering up the low down on some of the changes that have been made in the new models. So little time and so many guitars! If you have ever wanted a National Guitar, NOW IS THE TIME. They have never been better. AND they are making a great line of RESO-Ukes, Mandolins, Basses and just about anything that you can think of.

Photo-Bourbon Street Tokyo, Masa and Deirdre Ikeda, Don Young and Steve Gardner. We had an X-tra Large good time welcoming Don to Tokyo that night! New Friends and drinks all around. Deirdre and Don grew up in the same California community but hadn't really visited much since Masa and Deirdre

tied the knot...a few years back! This was Don's first trip to Japan, but we are all agreed that it won't be his last! So pack up the Nationals, throw in some olives and it's KOMPAI!

[Rambling Steve Gardner]

In these photos, Don Young and Nobu Orimoto in the acoustic division of Shimokura Gaki, Ochanomizu, Tokyo

[Kei Obata]

Hi! Steve,
GENKI???
Kei Obata

[Rambling Steve Gardner]

It's BBQ TIME!!! What have Y O U been up too? I hear that you have a university student in your house these days....come out for some music!

[Kei Obata]

Thank you Steve!
I'm so 元気。

Ryo listen your CD Walkin7' the Dog on the way to University.
See you, できるだけsoon!

He wants to play with you in future.

[Rambling Steve Gardner]

Say, HOW AND WHY do YOU give your cats a bath? Is it a bubble bath?

[Kei Obata]

Dont't ask me Why!!
なんとなく汚れてたんだもん。
Just with my shampoo & hot shower だよ。