Oct. 8, 2006 - "Bullet Bob" The Custom Shop
On a local visit to the post office in Colts Neck or a quick run into Orlando's, if the weather is nice you just may see a local merchant playing a guitar in front of "The Custom Shop".
The Custom Shop is owned and operated by Robert Liebner aka known as Bob or to be more descriptive "Bullet Bob" Bob is a very lucky man. He makes his living with his guitar/music store and has a great passion for songwriting and playing the acoustic guitar. As a person that enjoys playing guitar myself, I often ask him if I can play one of his guitars and strum along with him. His standard response is, I am sure you can find one to play.
How fortunate one is where they can do what they love and earn a living doing it. Bob can practice his craft/hobby all day and never even have to keep a guitar in his house. Guitar players usually have more than one guitar and Bob gets too be around several guitars all day.
Bob and his wife Ann are raising two beautiful daughters with the most pleasant personalties, (The apple doesn't fall far from the tree) and on weekends often brings the girls to the store to hang out with Dad and their newest family member Gabby. My son loves taking Gabby for a walk in between guitar lessons or when we are lucky enough to see Bob outside of his store playing "Picking Up Speed"
"Picking up Speed" can be interpreted to be an autobiography of Bob when he vehemtly claims he not getting older, he's just picking up speed. Of course this song was written a week or two before he turned 50 which he just did September of this year.
Be sure to stop in and say hi to Bob and ask him to play you a song. Anohter favorite of mine is "Three Chords and The Truth", written and performed by "Bullet Bob."
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