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Topic: Before They Were Bigtime |
Daniel Policarpo
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Posted 25 Aug 2013 2:40 am |
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Sonny Curtis is a well known and influential steel player who enjoyed tenures as one of the Jones Boys and later, re-christened under Tammy Wynette, as one of the Country Gentlemen. Of course he didn't just land those gigs out of the blue. He worked the front lines for years. Before he was "bigtime" he was one of Donny Bowshier's Radio Ranch Boys, for example...
and they sounded like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sjpw95dCPrY
What were some of your favorite players doing before they became more widely heard by the public at large, before they were "Bigtime"? |
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Clyde Mattocks
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Kinston, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 25 Aug 2013 3:16 am
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Elegant simple solo and IN TUNE! Shows influences of some of the great players of the day.
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LeGrande II, Nash. 112, Fender Twin Tone Master, Session 400, Harlow Dobro, R.Q.Jones Dobro |
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 25 Aug 2013 3:19 am
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My first steel guitar was a triple 8 National, just like that one. Way too cool.
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Carter D10 8p/8k, Dekley S10 3p/4k C6 setup,Regal RD40 Dobro, Recording King Professional Dobro, NV400, NV112,Ibanez Gio guitar, Epiphone SG Special (open D slide guitar) . Playing for 54 years and still counting. |
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Daniel Policarpo
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Posted 25 Aug 2013 3:34 am
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That is too cool, Richard!
What kind of amplifiers did you guys use with your first steels?
Just a novelty question I guess; nothing like derailing your own thread early! |
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Joachim Kettner
From:
Germany
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Posted 25 Aug 2013 9:03 am
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I believe Dan Dugmore's first steel job was with John Stewart, before he became "famous" with Linda Ronstadt
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Fender Kingman, Sierra Crown D-10, Evans Amplifier, Soup Cube. |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 25 Aug 2013 10:02 am
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My first amp was really a small crappy amp. Twin Reverb with JBL's.  Just funnin' guys. Great amp. I was a drummer prior to playing steel and traded my drumset in on the Twin. It was about a 70 or 71 (I bought it in 71) silverface, and it was awesome.
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Carter D10 8p/8k, Dekley S10 3p/4k C6 setup,Regal RD40 Dobro, Recording King Professional Dobro, NV400, NV112,Ibanez Gio guitar, Epiphone SG Special (open D slide guitar) . Playing for 54 years and still counting. |
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Tommy White
From:
Nashville
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Posted 25 Aug 2013 12:31 pm
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| Doug, I really never liked that album cover . The only thing cool about it is that blue Emmons guitar and that the photo was shot in Buddy Emmons' back yard! |
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Don Drummer
From:
West Virginia, USA
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Posted 29 Aug 2013 3:09 pm Sonny Curtis
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 29 Aug 2013 3:40 pm
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To expand on Don's post, by "reverse", he doesn't mean the "Day setup". Sonny tuned the guitar as follows (only A & B pedals shown):
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A B
F#
D#
A...........G#
E
C#.....B
A..........G#
F#
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D
C#.....B
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Carter D10 8p/8k, Dekley S10 3p/4k C6 setup,Regal RD40 Dobro, Recording King Professional Dobro, NV400, NV112,Ibanez Gio guitar, Epiphone SG Special (open D slide guitar) . Playing for 54 years and still counting. |
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Buddy Emmons
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Hermitage, TN USA * R.I.P.
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Posted 30 Aug 2013 5:09 am
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At Bobby Bowman’s request I shall supply a bit of info regarding the picture. The steel is a triple neck Fender and the amp is the 1949 Fender Super Tube Tweed Amp with a V shaped front and two speakers, what size I don’t know. I left home at age 16 so I’m assuming I was 15 years old when the picture was taken.
The venue was the Majorette Tavern in Mishawaka, Indiana, the band was the Choctaw Cowboys, the person playing bass was band leader Bob Reed, and the guitar player was Eddy Hopkins. The shirts probably came from Sears and I don’t remember whose beer that was on the floor. |
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Buddy Emmons
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Hermitage, TN USA * R.I.P.
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Posted 30 Aug 2013 5:14 am
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At Bobby Bowman’s request I shall supply a bit of info regarding the picture. The steel is a triple neck Fender and the amp is the 1949 Fender Super Tube Tweed Amp with a V shaped front and two speakers, what size I don’t know. I left home at age 16 so I’m assuming I was 15 years old when the picture was taken.
The venue was the Majorette Tavern in Mishawaka, Indiana, the band was the Choctaw Cowboys, the person playing bass was band leader Bob Reed, and the guitar player was Eddy Hopkins. The shirts probably came from Sears and I don’t remember whose beer that was on the floor. |
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Craig Schwartz
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McHenry IL
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Posted 30 Aug 2013 5:22 am
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I bet that beer was the base players , They really like beers, It drowns out the highs of the steel player, Ha
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Howard Smith
From:
Callison, South Carolina, USA
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Posted 30 Aug 2013 7:09 am
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Wow! This is the coolest thing about this forum...Buddy Emmons verifying the post/picture about himself, and anything else he wants to post period. Mr. Emmons you were the slickest looking guy on that stage as always. The first time I got to hear you play was at the only NAMM show ever in Atlanta, GA (1976). I wanted to play PSG ever since that moment. I stood their watching you play in that derby hat, perched way up in the air until my knees gave out. You were the first musician I saw, and the only one I remember when I walked through the doors. Richard is it true that drummers leave their drum sticks on the dash of their car so they can park in the handy cap spots?...
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Carter D10 8/5, Hilton VP, BJS Bar, Sonic Research Strobe Tuner, Elite' Powered Speakers, Fender Telecaster, Traynor YCV40 Tube Amp |
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Bobby Bowman
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Cypress, Texas, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 30 Aug 2013 7:14 am Big E
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Thanks Cheez. 
BB
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If you build 'em, build 'em good!
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Daniel Policarpo
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Posted 30 Aug 2013 9:22 am
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Thank you Buddy Emmons! I had to look up the Fender Super Tube Tweed since I had never come across one in person.
A seller with a '52 in OK shape is asking about $3500,and I don't see any '49s for sale, so it's a pretty rare bird these days. According to this page,
http://www2.gibson.com/News-Lifestyle/Features/en-us/classic-amps-821.aspx
the Super Tube Tweed's V-cab and 2-10" configuration were holdovers from the brief run of Dual Professionals,issued in '47, which are believed to be the first twin speaker combos manufactured by a large producer. |
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Barry Blackwood
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Daniel Policarpo
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Posted 30 Aug 2013 6:16 pm
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That's a pretty nice specimen. I bet it was loud given what was available. Bet the bass player didn't give Buddy any volume trouble then, now, did he?
Ha!
Man, too cool that Buddy Emmons stopped by. Lets milk this thing!
Anybody have anything on Lloyd Green?
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Carl Mesrobian
From:
Salem, Massachusetts, USA
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Posted 30 Aug 2013 7:25 pm
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Is he holding a slide and has picks on? Nice threads, and the shine on those shoes - whew!
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"The better it gets, the fewer of us know it." Ray Brown |
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Daniel Policarpo
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Posted 30 Aug 2013 7:40 pm
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nice Doug!
A Rick and an Oahu. Now, that's a sound. The amp's almost as big as Lloyd there and Carl's right, it looks for sure, that the bar is in one hand, and the picks are on the other. Looks like its wired in, too.
I gather Lloyd Green was a success story of the door to door Oahu sales campaign that was so intensive at that time? |
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