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Topic: What make of steel is Jerry Byrd playing here? |
Darryl Hattenhauer
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Phoenix, Arizona, USA
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Posted 9 Nov 2009 12:21 pm |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXEP5DFDMM4
Please pardon my ignorance.
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Jim Smith
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Midlothian, TX, USA
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Posted 9 Nov 2009 12:26 pm
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| It looks like his Sho-Bud to me. |
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Joachim Kettner
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Germany
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Posted 9 Nov 2009 12:35 pm
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I'm ignorant too  but this instrument is a piece of art! |
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Bobbe Seymour
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Hendersonville TN USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 9 Nov 2009 12:40 pm
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It is a late sixties custom Sho-Bud built by Shot himself just for Jerry.
Shot went on to build three more, one went to Little Roy Wiggins.
The other two had pedals added a few years later.
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Darryl Hattenhauer
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Phoenix, Arizona, USA
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Posted 9 Nov 2009 1:14 pm
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Thanks, fellas.
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Steel crazy after all these years.
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Darryl Hattenhauer
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Phoenix, Arizona, USA
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Posted 9 Nov 2009 1:41 pm
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youtube of old interview with Shot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIRVlUSrgYc
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Last edited by Darryl Hattenhauer on 9 Nov 2009 4:57 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Ray Montee
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Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 9 Nov 2009 3:11 pm About Jerry Byrd's Sho-Bud!
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Hey Bobbe.........
Do you suppose those other Sho-Bud double-necks that Shot made and gave away, had Jerry's "SECRET" pickup windings on them too....? Just curious.....
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Bill Stafford
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Gulfport,Ms. USA
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Posted 9 Nov 2009 5:00 pm Jerry's Sho-Bud
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I have had the extreme pleasure of being Jerry's friend. We shared many common interests concering our steel guitars. Jerry told me the story of this steel that Shot built for him. The first day Jerry had this guitar at home and tried to play it he said it was the most unresponsive and "cold" steel guitar he had ever encountered. This steel was relegated to his closet with a few choice words that only Jerry could come up with. Every once in a while he would take it out of the closet and after playing it for a while, he would cuss it out and threaten to throw it in the river there in Nashville. Finally, he put it back in the closet and told it next time he tried to play it and if it did not sound right it was actually going in that river. After a few months passed, again he took it out, hooked it up and it was immediately a "sweet steel guitar". Jerry said it only had to know where it was going for sure if it did not behave. Our biggest steel guitar giant is gone, but never forgotten. To have received his Lifetime Achievement Award is my treasure, plus all the times he gave me personally with him. Thanks Jerry Byrd.
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