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Topic: Just remembering Art Sanchez......SoCal great! |
Jerry Hayes
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Virginia Beach, Va.
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Posted 18 Feb 2014 9:09 am |
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Every few years or so I like to mention my old friend and bandmate Arturo (Art) Sanchez. Art got a lot of music out of that old D-10 Emmons and his Twin Reverb. We worked together in the seventies in Orange County and had a great time. He kinda looked like a Mexican bandito or something but he was a first class steeler. Art died sometime in '86 or '87 in the shower and was found by his son. He worked with Rose Maddox and others during his career and got a great "Mooney" like tone in his country and could also "Swing" with the best of 'em..... Art was also one of Jay Dee Maness' teachers. Does anyone else out there remember Art or have any stories about him?..........JH in Va.
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Mike Perlowin
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Los Angeles CA
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Posted 18 Feb 2014 10:38 am
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I met Art once when I was first learning how to play. He showed me a few licks. I had planned on taking some lessons from him, but never got around to it.
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Ron Pruter
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Arizona, USA
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Posted 18 Feb 2014 6:54 pm
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My old friend Joedy Walters, now 82, talked about him all the time. At a steel show he asked Jay Dee about him and JD sure remembered him. I think JD said they were neighbors or lived close to each other. RP
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Roy McKinney
From:
Ontario, OR
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Posted 18 Feb 2014 7:15 pm
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| First met Art in the first part of 1978. He was playing over in West Riverside at the time and I was playing out in Sunnymead at the old American Legion hall by March AFB. That is where I first met JayDee. He was just a young kid then still in school, but he was still the gentlemen then as he is today. A few years later I was playing with a guy from March AFB named Steve (can't remember the last name) but that was about the time I tried to cut my fingers off in a old garden tracker/roto tiller. JayDee took my job with Steve and he has been a friend ever since. But back to Art, he was always willing to help anybody out on the steel and he always said, there wasn't anything (song) he couldn't play. Then he would start in playing OBS on the steel. What a guy he was/. |
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Jerry Hayes
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Virginia Beach, Va.
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Posted 19 Feb 2014 12:42 pm
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Ol' Artie was quite a guy for sure. Sometimes we'd go by his apartment after the gig for some of his specialty food which was a heated up flour tortilla with a piece of bologna and a slice of cheese on it and rolled up like a burrito. Art called them his "Bloney Breetos" and they were actually pretty good. We'd dip 'em in some salsa he had on hand. On the bandstand one night we were doing a pretty fast bluegrass type tune and Artie whipped off a pretty "nasty" solo. When he was done he looked at me with that big grin of his and said "Hey Jerry, THE SPIC CAN PICK" and I had to agree with him 'cause he could.........JH in Va.
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John Wilson
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Coeur d' Alene, Idaho
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Posted 24 Feb 2014 8:27 am I worked with Art in '72 - 73'
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Hey Jerry, I remember Art as well.
In fact, I'd have to credit Art and another SoCal player (JB Crabtree) for getting me started on steel.
In 72' I was in a SoCal band called Dovie Modean, and we were doing a lot of country-rock (Poco, CSNY) stuff. We were signed with a small Indie label called Windi records out of Redondo Beach.
We had built a small studio in the garage behind our producers home (Gary Young) and Art was the session steeler on several albums we played on. John Faron, Walt Peterson, and Buck Taylor (of Gunsmoke fame) were 3 albums that come to mind.
Art had a great sense of humor and really liked hangin' with us longhair hippie-rocker types.
And yes, he could pick!
JW
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Jerry Hayes
From:
Virginia Beach, Va.
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Posted 24 Feb 2014 9:17 am
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Hey John, I see you're from Ventura. Back in the sixties I used to play at a club out on the end of Main St. called "The King of the Bass" with a guy named Jim Hendrix (not the rocker).... I also played a little at the Crow's Nest and Club Vegas in Oxnard..... Art also helped me out with getting some of those good old Ralph Mooney licks out of my old ShoBud and was always telling me "Jerry, you should get you an Emmons"....JH in Va.
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