z2010 Chapter Hospitality
February 10, 2010
2010 RMGCSA CHAPTER HOSPITALITY EVENT
RMGCSA will kick off the evening at 5:30 p.m. at the Hard Rock Cafe with drinks, dinner buffet and music. This will be an evening of mingling and networking with fellow superintendents and guests. This is a great opportunity to meet and greet your 2010 RMGCSA Board of Directors and congratulate the 2009 winner of "Superintendent of the Year", which will be announced during the event.
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History of the Hard Rock Cafe
It started with an Eric Clapton guitar (a Fender Lead II, for the gearheads in the audience). The beginning of something that nobody even knew was beginning.
It was just a goof. A laugh. A joke among friends.
Back in the seventies, Clapton - the original guitar god, founder of Cream and Derek & the Dominoes, creator of the immortal "Layla" - liked to eat at this quirky American diner in London called the Hard Rock Cafe. The place was this funky old building that used to be a Rolls Royce dealership, and it was run by a couple of young Americans who liked to keep it loose. Founded by Isaac Tigrett and Peter Morton, two enterprising and music-loving Americans, Hard Rock Cafe was an instant classic. You could be yourself at the Hard Rock. It was good food and a good time.
So Clapton got to be friends with the proprietors and asked them to save him a regular table, put up a brass plaque or something. And the young proprietors said, "Why don't we put up your guitar?" They all had a chuckle, and he handed over a guitar, and they slapped it on the wall.
No one thought much more about it. Until a week later, when another guitar arrived (a Gibson Les Paul, by the way). With a note from Pete Townshend of The Who which read: "Mine's as good as his. Love, Pete."
The young proprietors put it on the wall. After that, the guitars never stopped coming. Today there are more than 70,000 guitars, drums, pianos, harmonicas, microphones, shirts, pants, scarves, shoes, handwritten lyrics, cars, bikes, and a bus and assorted rock memorabilia - by far, the largest, most valuable collection in the world - on the walls of over 138 Hard Rock Cafes, Hotels and Casinos in 42 Countries around the world.
But it all started with the one...
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