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Topic: A Steelers performance that brought tears to your eyes |
Larry Behm
From:
Mt Angel, Or 97362
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Posted 8 Jun 2012 9:41 am |
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Buddy Emmons at the St Louis convention playing Exodus in the late 70's at a small hotel before the Chase.
Red Rhodes, Neil Rogerson and I all had tears in our eyes and could not believe what we just heard.
Larry Behm
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Frank Freniere
From:
The First Coast
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Posted 8 Jun 2012 11:10 am
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| To this day I still get watery when I hear Lloyd Green's recording of "Secret Love" from "Ten Shades of Green." |
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Larry Hamilton
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Amarillo,Tx
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Posted 8 Jun 2012 11:50 am
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Several years at the Dallas show Junior Knight played "Amazing Grace" If they would have had an alter call I would have rededicated my life to Jesus again whether I needed to or not (we really need to every day) MAN, talk about playing with heart and soul, WOW!! I will never forget that one. Good playing Junior. 
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Bent Romnes
From:
London,Ontario, Canada
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Posted 8 Jun 2012 12:28 pm
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Stgeel Guitar Convention, 1977 when Lloyd Green played the Sunday morning gospel set. I was standing there watching him by the stage with tears in my eyes
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 8 Jun 2012 12:55 pm
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My playing will bring tears to your eyes, also.  |
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Malcolm McMaster
From:
Beith Ayrshire Scotland
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Posted 8 Jun 2012 1:30 pm
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John Hughey playing Sweet Memories with Dawn Sears at the Station Inn.An outstanding performance by both of them, makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.
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Jerry Overstreet
From:
Louisville Ky
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Posted 8 Jun 2012 1:33 pm
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Lloyd Green ISGC back when Cold Cold Heart. Lloyd Green sometime after the Revisited CD release...., live at ISGC...So Sad to Watch Good Love Go Bad.
Cowboy Eddie Long: 2000 something ISGC. Ghost in This House.
That'll do for starters. |
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Bill Miller
From:
Gaspe, Quebec, Canada
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Posted 8 Jun 2012 1:42 pm
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| As much as I love pedal steel no player has affected me quite that profoundly yet. Mahalia Jackson singing ' O Holy Night ' has done it as well as a few soprano opera singers. But certainly I have been quite moved by steel players such Lloyd Green and Buddy Emmons in particular. The work Lloyd Green did on Ricky Skaggs ' Nothing Can Hurt You ' is very moving. That one and Buddy Emmons on the Ray Price/Willie Nelson version of ' Don't You Ever Get Tired of Hurting Me ' are the first two to come to mind. |
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Bob Hickish
From:
Port Ludlow, Washington, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 8 Jun 2012 1:48 pm
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| Erv Niehaus wrote: |
| My playing will bring tears to your eyes, also. |
Dang-it Erv !!! you been copp’n my licks again   |
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 8 Jun 2012 2:20 pm
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I'm gonna spell this wrong, but here goes. La Hiver Sur La Plage by Buddy Emmons off the Suite Steel album. Also has some sentimental reasons attached.
Then, as Malcolm says, Sweet Memories by the Time Jumpers with John Hughey.
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| My playing will bring tears to your eyes, also. |
Mine will bring your last meal back up into your mouth.
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Fred Rushing
From:
Odin, IL, USA
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Posted 8 Jun 2012 4:24 pm Shenandoah
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I have had the pleasure of hearing most all of the great ones over the last forty years. If you go to youtube and watch Shenandoah by Buddy Emmons, played live on the Prarie Home Companion radio show 2006. The presentation and the playing are as good as can get. Just BE playing his guitar. Goes all the way to the Bone.
Thank you Mr. Emmons!!
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 8 Jun 2012 5:00 pm
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| John playing "I'm Not Lisa." Hated the single, but was abdo-lutely stunned by his version! |
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Bryan Daste
From:
Portland, Oregon, USA
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Posted 8 Jun 2012 5:23 pm
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| Fred, couldn't find it. Do you have a link? |
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Wally Moyers
From:
Lubbock, Texas
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Posted 8 Jun 2012 7:50 pm
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| For me it was Jimmy Day, I love you so much it hurts... It was at the Dallas show around 1995-1996? I have never been so moved by anything before or since... Jimmy felt from his heart every note he played. I remember that the bass player was doing such a bad job behind Jimmy that Buddy Emmons took the bass from him and played on the rest of Jimmy's set. I also remember Scotty saying that Jimmy's left foot was connected directly to his heart... He was playing a Blue lacquer Mullen, I ordered one just like it right then.. My son Jeremy was there with his band, his lead singer said really loud, that old guy can really play... I told him, thats John Lennon in the steel world and that he was witnessing greatness... It was incredible! I will never forget it.... |
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Peter Freiberger
From:
California, USA
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Brett Day
From:
Pickens, SC
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Posted 8 Jun 2012 9:58 pm
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That's a hard one for me. John Hughey's instrumental version of "Look At Us" comes to mind, and also "Cowboy" Eddie Long's instrumental version of the Shenandoah song I'm Just A Ghost In This House" is one that will almost bring tears to your eyes. "Cowboy" recorded it way before Jamey Johnson had first come onto the country music scene-Eddie was still playin' a Sierra, so it was recorded in 2001-two years after I first started playin' steel guitar.
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Olaf van Roggen
From:
The Netherlands
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Posted 9 Jun 2012 12:35 am
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| Neil Flanz playing"The new soft shoe" with Gram Parsons & the Fallen Angels,the reason i wrote him a letter 30 years ago and we are still best friends. |
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William Lake
From:
Ontario, Canada
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Posted 9 Jun 2012 3:55 am
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Probably old hat to you guys, but the first steel I ever heard was Buddy Emmons playing Danny Boy on the old Black album.
Hit me like a brick.
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Herb Steiner
From:
Spicewood TX 78669
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Posted 9 Jun 2012 5:48 am
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Jimmy Day was the most emotional player ever.
A dear friend and brother to me lost his young son tragically quite a few years back. He was sitting off to the side on stage left at ISGC that year as Jimmy Day was playing "I Love You So Much." I was so concerned because watching my friend there I thought he was about to lose it, as he was openly sobbing. I teared up in empathy for my friend.
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Jack Stanton
From:
Somewhere in the swamps of Jersey
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Posted 9 Jun 2012 6:58 am
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Didn't bring tears, but Jimmy Day playing "Old Black Joe" by himself at his first PSGA show in Armonk, NY back in the 70's was profoundly moving. His volume pedal was connected directly to his heart. Getting goose bumps thinking about it.
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Olaf van Roggen
From:
The Netherlands
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Jon Irsik
From:
Wichita, KS USA
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Brian McGaughey
From:
Orcas Island, WA USA
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Posted 9 Jun 2012 11:07 am
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Lloyd Green on Revisited does Everly Brothers "So Sad" with Junior Brown on vocals.
Lloyd solos over one of the best grooving classic shuffles ever, complete with vibrophone and he just pours out emotion.
I tear up every time. |
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Billy Carr
From:
Seminary, Mississippi, USA (deceased)
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Posted 9 Jun 2012 11:25 am etc.
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| For me, it's all in a name. John Hughey. The most soulful player I've ever witnessed. RIP buddy. Of course, one day, I'd really like to sit and watch the Big E pick. |
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Dave Grafe
From:
Hudson River Valley NY
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Posted 9 Jun 2012 4:56 pm
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| ...the moment that stands out from the others was inspired by a young fellow name of Danny Gatton, who was sitting in with Liz Meyer and her gang back in 1972 or so, playing stuff on a telecaster I only wished I could play on the pedal steel.... |
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