This guy wasn't BG. It was the shorter swarthy guy who hung with him.
> Ken,
> The guy you talked to sounds a lot like BG hisself. One of his favorite
> pastimes at those trade shows is to impersonate anybody but him. I have
> impersonated him myself by trading eyeglasses and schmoozing potential
customers
> while BG stood in the background looking stupid. Some people also thought
we
> were brothers with the same mother, different fathers. BG is easily
amused at
> boring trade shows, so if you find yourself talking to a cranky machinist
with a
> penchant for bullshit who says he's not Bruce Gordon, it's probably him!
> Joe Bell
> (BG lookalike contest winner)
>
> Kenneth Wallace wrote:
>
> > At the Anaheim show a few years ago, I was talking to someone at Bruce
> > Gordon's booth. I have a lugged Gordon and asked about the price of a
> > lugged frame. Gordon wanted $3200 for a lugged frams (acording to this
guy)
> > because he had burned out his lungs not wearing a mask, and if he had to
> > strap one on to do a brazed frame, he wanted a lot of money,
> >
> > Ken Wallace in sunny Phoenix (Oh, wait, that's redundant)