Hi Joe
I see you are asking for requests for the upcoming tour so I will paste a message I left at the beginning of June - I must have been one of the first to make a request!
Message was:
Hi Joe
My 19 year old son Ollie Naismith was killed in a car crash on 6th December 2009. He was an amazing guitarist, inspired by you. He played “Until We Say Goodbye” as his audition piece for college and blew them away with it.
He and I were at Bournemouth in 2008. He spotted you in your wig and shades behind the sound desk while Paul Gilbert was playing and I took a photo of him with you before security took you away. I treasure that photo of him with you.
Following his death I have decided to learn to play. I am still very much a novice but have just bought a JS100 just in case I get good! My goal is to be able to play “Always With Me, Always With You”. Such a beautiful piece of music and so poignant to me. The song means so much to me that I have the opening bars tattooed along the inside of my forearm.
I have tickets for the middle front row at Bristol Colston Hall on 18th October. The reason for this message is to ask that you keep “Always With Me, Always With You” in your set for this tour and if you were able to dedicate it to my Ollie in Bristol …. It would mean everything to me.
Thanks for taking time to read this.
John Naismith
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So basically my request is please, please, please keep ALWAYS WITH ME, ALWAYS WITH YOU in the set!
If you want to bring Unitl We Say Goodbye back, that will be hugely emotional for me too!
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One other thing - I am sure no major artist has ever done a "Live at Bristol Colston Hall" DVD before ......
Looking forward to October, got to go now - guitar lesson!
John
