There's an authentic musicians' music store in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. By that, I mean this isn't the kind of store where senior citizens drop in to look at those "play themselves" electric organs. Nor will you find the pre-pubescent youth rock n roller playing the intro to "Smoke On The Water" until
even the staff runs screaming out into oncoming traffic.
No, Speed of Sound, as I said, is a musicians' music store, where the Chippewa Valley's best stop in to buy what they need in supplies or more often than not, come in, grab the ever present barber's chair, and just hang for a couple of hours.
The reason this has become the "Floyd's Barbershop" of music is because of Floyd himself. Not that Mike "Schlenk" Schlenker has any of the Mayberry barber's personality traits. What he does have is an intrinsic knowlege of his trade, a great if odd sense of humor and an almost mad love for the Green Bay Packers.
Mike is the man that got me started in search of a T.J. Rubley jersey. Schlenker loves to tell the story of how it was the year that the Pack was playing the Vikings in the Dome, were ahead by two points late in the fourth quarter when both Favre and backup QB Ty Detmer got injured within minutes of each other and Holmgren was forced to go to his only remaining quarterback, Rubley, who had played some european league football and who had spent the season before with the Rams..
On third down and 3-4 yards to go at the Minnesota 38, Holmgren instructed Rubley just to sneak it closer to the middle of the field for a field goal attempt.
Rubley got under center, noticed a Viking DB sneaking up to the line of scrimmage, then AUDIBLED to a quick pass, got rushed, threw across his body and was intercepted.
With the time remaining, the Vikings then marched down within field goal range and kicked the field goal to win by one point.
At Speed of Sound the name Rubley became the standard for Packer mistakes so that all others were compared to his gaff.
"What a Rubley play that was!"
"Well, it was bad, but it was no Rubley."
You get the idea.
I finally located a source that will make you a customized NFL jersey at a really good price and I want to pass that information on to you if you are into that kind of thing.
His name is Dan Daniels, he runs his service through eBay, and you can contact him at : generaldonmega@hotmail.com. In fact, mention the fact that Larry Heagle recommnded his jerseys. They are very well made, authentic Reebok with numerals and name all sewn, and the NFL equipment label at the throat.
Dan is very conscientous about his orders. For example, he sent my order back because the jerseys did not have sewn cuffs.
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