How is Bob Metzger?
How is Bob Metzger?
About one year ago it was announced that, due to health issues, Mitch Watkins would replace Bob Metzger on the guitar. Does anyone know how Bob Metzger is doing?
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Re: How is Bob Metzger?
Thank you for asking that, vanbonn.
I've been wondering the same... and I miss Bob's playing, as well.
Hope we get good news on him.
I've been wondering the same... and I miss Bob's playing, as well.
Hope we get good news on him.
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Re: How is Bob Metzger?
Glad you asked, vanbonn. Liked him and missed him - a quiet, steady presence.vanbonn wrote: Does anyone know how Bob Metzger is doing?
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Re: How is Bob Metzger?
Yes, indeed, I'm sure it is, Helen!
Thank you!
Enjoyed the first comment by him and
regarding the second one in the exchange there.
Thank you!
Enjoyed the first comment by him and

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Re: How is Bob Metzger?
I have ask this Question too and never found out how he is doing miss him too.
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Re: How is Bob Metzger?
Jarkko, now that you're probably back from Hydra, any chance of an update on Bob M ?regensburg wrote:I have ask this Question too and never found out how he is doing miss him too.
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Re: How is Bob Metzger?
I miss him too. He was playing so cool and jazzy.
Mitch is too mild for me.
Hope Bob can return somedays as Dino too.
Mitch is too mild for me.
Hope Bob can return somedays as Dino too.
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Re: How is Bob Metzger?
I have been asking around but nobody seems to know.
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Re: How is Bob Metzger?
Oh, dear... thanks, Jarkko.
That doesn't sound like he'll be joining back in on the tour anytime soon.
Maybe 2014?
That doesn't sound like he'll be joining back in on the tour anytime soon.
Maybe 2014?
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Re: How is Bob Metzger?
According to our present knowledge, there are no tour dates scheduled for 2014.
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Re: How is Bob Metzger?
But there is no full stop - yet - in your signature for this year, right Jarkko? 

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Re: How is Bob Metzger?
Thanks for reminding me... Will add now.
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Re: How is Bob Metzger?
jarkko wrote:According to our present knowledge, there are no tour dates scheduled for 2014.
Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul and sings the tune without words, and never stops at all. - Emily Dickinson
Wishing Bob Metzger the best, too.
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Beautiful Losers
Re: How is Bob Metzger?
“How wrong Emily Dickinson was! Hope is not "the thing with feathers." The thing with feathers has turned out to be my nephew. I must take him to a specialist in Zurich.”
Woody Allen, 'Without Feathers'
Woody Allen, 'Without Feathers'