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Topic: A Buddy Emmons story... |
Mitch Ellis
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Collins, Mississippi USA
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Posted 10 Jun 2010 10:38 pm |
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Awhile back, I started a thread in the Pedal Steel section entitled "A "true" Emmons." (now on page 6) And some of you got a kick out of it. Well, read this one! 
Today, I met a six-stringer and the conversation went something like this:
SS (six-stringer): So, you play steel?
Me: Yeah, that's right.
SS: I love the sound of a steel guitar!
Me: Yeah, man! Me too!
SS: That man that invented the steel guitar, Buddy Emmons, do you know where he got started?
Me: Well, I've read a little about it.
SS: Well let me tell ya'.
He then goes on to tell me that Mr. Emmons started building steel guitars in a cabin on a river near a town called Soso Mississippi. (a small town not far from where I live.) He continues...
SS: Ya' see. When Buddy Emmons invented the steel guitar, he then had to learn how to play it.
Me: Really?
SS: Yeah! Ya' see, all he had ever played was lap steels. He couldn't play his first steel so he threw it in the river and built another one.
Me: Threw it in the river?
SS: That's right. It was so complicated to play until he got frustrated and threw it in the river.
Me: Because he couldn't play it?
SS: That's right. He got so frustrated, he threw five prototypes in the river.
Me: Because he couldn't play em' right?
SS: That's right. And they say that right now when the river level drops and the water is clear, that you can still see steel guitar parts, you know, metal and stuff, and those five steel guitars laying on the bottom of the river.
Me: Is that right?
SS: Yep. That's right.
Any comments?
Mitch |
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CrowBear Schmitt
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Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
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Posted 11 Jun 2010 12:22 am
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here's one :
Last edited by CrowBear Schmitt on 11 Jun 2010 1:00 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Ransom Beers
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Posted 11 Jun 2010 12:50 am
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| That's a true story,I seen em' but to me they look like old refridgerators & 57 Chevies. |
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Billy Carr
From:
Seminary, Mississippi, USA (deceased)
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Posted 11 Jun 2010 4:03 am Be
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| I'm going fishing and catch me one of them lappies. I'll bet the Leaf River is full of them things you lay on your lap and play! Marie & yourself did an excellent job on the set during the MSP 5-29 show. Thanks buddy! |
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 11 Jun 2010 5:51 am
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Might this be prototype #6 ....?
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Gary Lee Gimble
From:
Fredericksburg, VA.
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kyle reid
From:
Butte,Mt.usa
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Posted 11 Jun 2010 7:26 am
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| Sounds Fishy to me! |
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Joachim Kettner
From:
Germany
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Posted 11 Jun 2010 7:41 am
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| Gary Lee Gimble wrote: |
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| Might this be prototype #6 ....? |
Nope, that is my good friend and super awesome picker, Curry Coster. |
Super, awesome weight lifter too! |
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Shorty Smith
From:
Columbus, Georgia, USA
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Posted 11 Jun 2010 7:47 am
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| I think this could be watered down a little |
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Charles Davidson
From:
Phenix City Alabama, USA
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Posted 11 Jun 2010 9:13 am
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Tell em' how it is Shorty.  YOU BETCHA,DYK?BC.
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Hard headed, opinionated old geezer. BAMA CHARLIE. GOD BLESS AMERICA. ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVIST. SUPPORT LIVE MUSIC ! |
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Gary Lee Gimble
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Fredericksburg, VA.
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Posted 11 Jun 2010 9:50 am
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| I think this could be watered down a little |
Shorty, lets look at the bright side. BamaCharley's pen pal could be going into an in debt analysis how his renowned vertical fretboard was used as bait to catch prototype #4.
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Assorted gear and a set of hands...
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Shorty Smith
From:
Columbus, Georgia, USA
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Posted 11 Jun 2010 11:06 am
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| you got it right on track, Gary, Charlie is my steel picking buddy |
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Kevin Hatton
From:
Buffalo, N.Y.
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Posted 11 Jun 2010 11:22 am
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| Call me Abe Lincoln. |
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Kenny Yates
From:
Hattiesburg Mississippi
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Posted 11 Jun 2010 2:58 pm Emmons Story
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| Mitch, have you been hanging around Magee and talking to Tommy Fortenberry again? |
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Mitch Ellis
From:
Collins, Mississippi USA
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Posted 11 Jun 2010 6:09 pm Re: Emmons Story
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| Kenny Yates wrote: |
| Mitch, have you been hanging around Magee and talking to Tommy Fortenberry again? |
Ransom...that's FUNNY!
And Billy, thank you for letting me and Marie have a part in your steel show. We really enjoyed it! And I'll say this...your a MONSTER player!
Mitch |
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Paul Norman
From:
Washington, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 12 Jun 2010 1:54 pm
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| I didnt know that about Buddy. When I saw him in Kinston, NC in 1964 or 1965 with Ray Price he had learned a lot about it especially "Invitation to the Blues" |
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