Last night my friend Britt and I drove to Auburn to the Guitar Shoppe to see Doyle Dykes. Doyle has been my long time guitar hero. This guy is amazing. He was a youth pastor down in Florida and moved into playing guitar professionally. He is probably one of the best fingerpickers around. It was so cool to hear his stories of him playing with Eric Johnson, Chet Atkins, and a slew of other awesome guitar players. He plays the Grand Ole Oprey like 2 or 3 times a year. Unbelievable that I was able to see him in person and shake his hand. I don’t get giddy over movie stars or other famous people but man when I see someone with THAT much talent, I get giddy. It’s like I want his skill to somehow transfer to me so I can play like that. Maybe one day when I have time to practice more, I’ll be able to play like that. So I wish I had brought my video camera to record him playing but for now you’ll just have to make do with these images (what a perfect time to have the new Canon 5D; I could have taken video and stills).
Oh and he started playing a custom made Taylor Guitar (the Doyle Dykes edition) that has a rose on the headstock. That is his symbol b/c of an awesome story of when his young doughter had asked God for a white rose, and a couple days later, while Doyle was playing this small church, and elderly lady came up to him with a white rose and said that God had told her to give this to him. AMAZING! God is awesome in all his wonder and I got crazy chills when he told that story.
Another fan of Doyle (actually two of them) had brought their Taylor guitars to the show and decided to get Doyle to autograph them. Now I have a Taylor Koa K-14 and I like Doyle Dykes but I just don’t think that I would have him sign my guitar. Maybe it’s just me. Not much into signatures. I do like pictures though.. 
And speaking of signatures, my buddy, Britt got a free pack of Elixir strings for asking a question so he got Doyle to sign his strings box… haha… gotta love fans.
