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Topic: Steeler with Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown? |
Jay Ganz
From:
Out Behind The Barn
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Posted 25 Jul 2010 7:12 am |
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Who was Gatemouth Brown's steeler years ago? I heard an old swing tune of his on the radio with some wild steelin' goin' on.
Did he have several over the years? The few times I saw him on TV he didn't have a steel player. |
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Mitch Drumm
From:
Frostbite Falls, hard by Veronica Lake
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Posted 25 Jul 2010 7:32 am
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| He did use several steel players. Don Buzzard for sure and maybe Russ Hicks. Others? |
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Shorty Rogers
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Posted 25 Jul 2010 7:46 am
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| There was a player named Tom Webb who toured with Gate for several years back in the seventies. I believe he played a 14 string Mullen, serial # was very low, like 001 or 002. Pete Grant may know of his whereabouts. |
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Cal Freeman
From:
North Carolina, USA
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Posted 25 Jul 2010 12:14 pm
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| Tom Webb played for "Gate" before me. I played steel with him from '78 through '81, and off and on again for short tours between '87 and '92... |
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Joachim Kettner
From:
Germany
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Joe Cook
From:
Lake Osoyoos, WA
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Posted 1 Jan 2011 3:54 am
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| I've always loved Gatemouth. Got to see him in a little hall in Bellingham WA. in 1987? maybe. There were maybe 50 people there and he was excellent. I met him after the show. A very nice man and his band was first rate. One of my favorite pedal steel solos from his albums is a song called "I Wonder" on the album "The Man". I get chicken skin listening to that solo. He resented being called a bluesman because he was so into country and cajun and jazz and everything else. A true original. |
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Dave Ristrim
From:
Whites Creek, TN
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Posted 4 Jan 2011 8:20 am
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| Re: Tom Webb... I remember seeing a D14 that Tom had for sale at a music store in Saratoga, CA back in the early 80's. I think it was a Mullen. I was told he had quit music and moved to Florida to pursue Scientology. |
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Kevin Mincke
From:
Farmington, MN (Twin Cities-South Metro) USA
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Posted 4 Jan 2011 8:51 am
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That's a cool old ~Bud 
I was watching a DVD of Gatemouth at the Twin Cities Music Cafe during an intermission some years back, and was never able to find it in the stores. He was wearing a cowboy hat (as he did most always I believe) and it had double rattlesnake heads as the hatband.
It was really a great DVD both musically and production, and again in fact I was searching for it the other day.....no luck  |
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CrowBear Schmitt
From:
Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
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Jerry Overstreet
From:
Louisville Ky
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Posted 4 Jan 2011 2:29 pm
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I never got to see him live, but have seen several PBS, maybe Austin City Limits, Jubilee, etc. Never saw a steel guitar with him, but that's cool. I always enjoyed the recorded performances that I saw and admired his work.
Did a steel guitar regularly tour with him, or was it mainly studio work that he used steel?
Good to learn more about him. |
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Steve French
From:
Roseville CA
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Posted 5 Jan 2011 2:28 pm Re: Tom Webb
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I worked a lot of gigs with Tom back in the late 70's. He actually taught me to play the steel guitar. He knew lot about the instrument and was enormously helpful when I was starting out on steel. He did indeed take up Scientology and moved to Florida as a result. I well remember that red Mullen D-14 -- what a beast! Always wondered what happened to that guitar.
Steve |
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