For me, Friday at Experience was all about the people. For the newer folks, Friday was a full day at earlier experiences.
Some of the people were about to become really well known
Some of the people were really well known to those who read the details of record labels
Some well known in their genre - I went to Tony's sessions every year. Amazing player and really nice guy. Come to think of it, that is common to most PRS artists.
And some of them just friends. Ron was there with his wife every year. This was him playing to a backing track - before all that happened via social media.
And Chris playing to the same track. Might have been the same year his strap fell off on the big stage - he laughed and carried on.
Many of my forum friends I met at Experience before I did the forum thing.
Now I've got some Experience guitars to play.
Cheers all.