Canadian guitarist/singer Jack Semple recently played a charity to rebuild the roof of the ancient United Church in dowtown Edmonton. My brother Bruce volunteered he and I to work the door.
Semple was brilliant; very skilled, versatile, funny - the whole package. After his first startlingly intricate number he took the mike, thanked everyone and asked, "Just curious. How many of you play guitar?"
There were over 500 people there and not a hand went up. Bruce whispered, "Raise your hand!" and I just glared at him.
Semple came back with, "Let me put this another way. How many of you OWN a guitar?"
Amid a roar of laughter more than half the people there, including me, raised their hands! It's likely an old bit but I'd never heard it before and I thought it was hilarious!
