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Topic: 1967 Charley Pride Steeler? |
Mike Brinkmeyer
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Houston, Texas
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Posted 19 Jul 2014 5:31 am |
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Can anyone identify the steel player with Charley Pride in this old pic I took in 1967? I remember at the time, it was shortly after
"Does My Ring Hurt Your Finger" was released . . .
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Herb Steiner
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Posted 19 Jul 2014 6:15 am
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I don't recognize the steel player, but that's Paul English on drums back there, so Willie Nelson must have been on the show as well.
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Mike Brinkmeyer
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Houston, Texas
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Posted 19 Jul 2014 8:13 am
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Yep - Willie on the show also . . . but, I think with Johnny Bush on drums (at least when this pic was taken).
Jimmy Day on steel. Johnny was on the show that night also.
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Joachim Kettner
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Posted 19 Jul 2014 8:14 am
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| Herb Steiner wrote: |
| I don't recognize the steel player, but that's Paul English on drums back there, so Willie Nelson must have been on the show as well. |
Me And Paul!
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Ray Harrison
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Tucson, Arizona, USA (deceased)
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Posted 19 Jul 2014 8:25 am
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Could that be Buddy Treadwell?
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Tommy White
From:
Nashville
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Posted 19 Jul 2014 9:37 am
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| Nice pic of Jimmy. Neat to see the Evans built Sho-Bud Compactra amps and Jimmy's Sho-Bud perm. It looks like the steeler in the first pic is playing Jimmy's guitar. |
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Mitch Ellis
From:
Collins, Mississippi USA
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Posted 19 Jul 2014 10:04 am
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What kind of guitar is Charley Pride playing?
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Mike Brinkmeyer
From:
Houston, Texas
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Posted 19 Jul 2014 10:15 am
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Thanks Tommy - here's another from the same concert with the late Jimmy C. Newman - and again with Jimmy Day and Johnny Bush. Also on the same show that night were George Jones,Carl Smith, Bobby Bare and Roy Drusky. I was 13 at the time and remember ticket prices being $2 each for this show . . . I wonder if the folks thought that was expensive back then?
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Ken Pippus
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Langford, BC, Canada
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Posted 19 Jul 2014 10:15 am
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| Fender acoustic, during their "broomstick" period. Kingman? |
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Mike Brinkmeyer
From:
Houston, Texas
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Posted 19 Jul 2014 10:18 am
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| Mitch - a Fender Shenandoah or Malibu maybe? Just guessin'. Willie was playing a red Fender Mustang. |
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Ken Pippus
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Langford, BC, Canada
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Posted 19 Jul 2014 10:37 am
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Shenandoah was a twelve string. Think we can rule that out.
Big block inlays and bound neck would fit with a Wildwood. |
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 19 Jul 2014 10:45 am
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Also on the same show that night were George Jones,Carl Smith, Bobby Bare and Roy Drusky. I was 13 at the time and remember ticket prices being $2 each for this show . . . I wonder if the folks thought that was expensive back then?
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Wow - all that for $2! I also love Jimmy's chair. In 1967, what we used before Pac-a-Seat.. |
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Joachim Kettner
From:
Germany
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Posted 19 Jul 2014 10:55 am
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The guitar in a color picture:
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Ken Pippus
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Langford, BC, Canada
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Posted 19 Jul 2014 10:59 am
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Thought that stripe might be a strap in the original picture. Pretty unique. Great "California" look to that whole series of guitars. Not such great guitars, though.
Aha! The stripe is probably a "Wildwood" dye effect. As I understand it, they injected dye into the trees before harvest. |
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Barry Blackwood
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Doug Jones
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Oregon & Florida
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Posted 19 Jul 2014 12:03 pm
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| Back to your intial question: I'm pretty sure the steeler is Bill Poe. If I recall, he left picking to become a school teacher. In later years, after retiring, he could be heard picking down on lower Broadway. Haven't talked to him since 2001. |
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John Swain
From:
Winchester, Va
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Posted 19 Jul 2014 1:12 pm
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| FYI,with inflation that $2 would be $13.77 today! What a bargain! |
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Mike Brinkmeyer
From:
Houston, Texas
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Posted 19 Jul 2014 6:39 pm
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Doug - someone once told me the guy in the pic below, taken a little over 3 years later in 1971 at the same venue here in Houston, was Bill Poe playing with Billy Walker that night. It does kind of look like the guy in the pic with Charley but I can't tell for certain. Same guy??
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chris ivey
From:
california (deceased)
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Posted 19 Jul 2014 7:27 pm
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oh man....you can see the tops of his socks!!  |
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Johnny Cox
From:
Williamsom WVA, raised in Nashville TN, Lives in Hallettsville Texas
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Posted 19 Jul 2014 10:00 pm
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Bill still has and plays that guitar.
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Don R Brown
From:
Rochester, New York, USA
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Posted 20 Jul 2014 5:16 am
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| It does kind of look like the guy in the pic with Charley but I can't tell for certain. Same guy?? |
Comparing the first pic with the color shot, I'm not so sure it's the same guy. The one in the top picture seems to have a narrower face and more prominent ears. But that could just be camera angle. Where's CSI when you need them? [/quote] |
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Roy McKinney
From:
Ontario, OR
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Posted 20 Jul 2014 10:29 am
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In the first picture, could it had been Gene O'Neal?
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Don Euton
From:
Texas, USA
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Posted 20 Jul 2014 4:15 pm
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In the first picture, could it be Lloyd Green?
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Kevin Hatton
From:
Buffalo, N.Y.
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Posted 21 Jul 2014 2:45 am
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| Just two knee levers. How'd they do that? I'm betting Lloyd in the first photo. |
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Pete Finney
From:
Nashville Tn.
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Posted 21 Jul 2014 4:04 am
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I'm sure that is NOT Lloyd Green in that photo. It doesn't look anything like him, and he never toured with Charley Pride - he'd been doing sessions full time for several years by the time Charley's career really got going. The "Panther Hall" LP was all studio players brought in just for that one show to make a record.
Billy Poe was still around town and playing not long ago, I used to see him in the neighborhood a lot. |
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