Jam Session at the 340

The planning of this gala event has brought back floods of memories. One of my favorites occured on one Saturday afternoon. There was a party at the 340 Club, no particular reason that I can recall,as if we ever needed one.
340 resident Randy Brown,local musical legend,had stored amplifyers,guitars,drums and assorted other equipment for his band, "The Thunderin Herd" in the basement of the Club.
For some reason four of us,Randy,Kenny Giltner,Tex Peffer and myself found our way down there at the same time..Tex started playing the drums,Randy picked up a bass ,I started hitting a few chords on an electric guitar and Kenny grabbed a microphone.
Soon we all got into rhythm and Kenny started ad libbing song lyrics. We played for what seemed like hours,oblivious to any of the upstairs party people who ventured down for the jam,although I vaguely remember seeing Club member Tim "Fus"Stoltzfus enjoying the music.
When we finally stopped and went upstairs to re-new our partying, Fus came over to me and said,"You guys really sounded good", a compliment to me for sure as the only guitar playing I did was alone in the comfort of my own bedroom. Fus then said,"Look at your fingers",I glanced down and saw all of the digits on my right hand were bleeding. Apparently I had broken my guitar pick or dropped it but didn't want to break up the tempo we had going so I continued playing..Sadly we will not be able to "Put the band back together" as both Tex and Kenny have gone on to the Big Club (RIP)