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Topic: Shot Jackson stories.... tell us yours... |
Damir Besic
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Posted 5 Jun 2015 5:39 am |
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lately I have heard some great things about Shot, things I didn't know, and it seems he was a great guy, he helped players in need a lot... I would love to hear any stories like that about Shot, i just have a deepest respect for people like that, if there was more people like Shot, this world would be a better place... tell your story, I would love to hear it...
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Greg Cutshaw
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Corry, PA, USA
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Lonnie Portwood
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Jacksonville, fl. USA
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Posted 5 Jun 2015 7:42 am
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I met Shot in the early 80's and He got me a spot on His annual "Sho-bud Show" on the stage of the grand Ole Opry (Thur night) which I will never forget. He introduced me to one of my guitar Heros (Dwaine Friend) who taught me how to catch bass. Shot was a compassionate man who indeed helped many musicians along the way, including a local player in Jax., Fl. (Bobby Green) and Willie Nelson. That story told to me by Shot's good friend, Jack McCormick. Seems Shot asked Jack to go with Him one Sat morn, when Shot went by the grocery store, bought a few items and drove to the countryside to a little shack by the road, where He took the groceries inside to a down-and-out musician named Willie Nelson.
I took an amp for repair to Shot when He had the store on Broadway. Shot had His tech fix it for me while we listened to Jeff Newman play up on the little balcony in the store. Shot brought me the amp all fixed, handed me several sets of strings and would'nt take any money. When I got home, I sent Him payment and thanked Him for being so kind to me. There are many more stories that should be shared about this kind and gentle man. Lonnie
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Damir Besic
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Nashville,TN.
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Posted 5 Jun 2015 10:13 am
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thanks guys, this is wonderful, keep it coming, I never met the man, wish I had...
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Greg Cutshaw
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Corry, PA, USA
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Posted 5 Jun 2015 10:27 am
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From other forum posts:
"Shot started paying a pedal steel on sessions beginning on the December 17, 1955 with HOW FAR IS HEAVEN, DUST ON THE BIBLE and continued to do so until his last session with Kitty in 1957"
You can go on YouTube and hear a lot of great Shot pedal playing including the early use of bar slants.
There is always the oft repeated story of the amp that Shot loaned Bobbe that had to be hauled up a flight of stairs to to a studio. Bobbe did not like the amp's tone and when Shot asked Bobbe what he though of the amp, Bobbe threw it of the second floor landing and it did not have a happy landing. You'd have to check with Doug Seymour for more details but I always loved it when he told that story.
Listen to this very old Shot Pedal recording from 1955, How Far Is Heaven:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtJ7lb0C85w
The old Donna Darlene recordings are a great source of Shot's dobro and also for some great pedal steel from Buddy Emmons.
I too would like to hear about 200 more Shot stories! |
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Ron Brown
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Florida, USA
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Posted 5 Jun 2015 1:50 pm
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Hopefully, Lynn Ousley will chime in on this. He's got a million stories about Shot. One I remember is the time that Sergeant "Shot's parrot" escaped from from the Sho-Bud garage in Madison. Shot dispatched all the pickers that were hanging around to head to the streets of Madison to retrieve Sarge. Lynn said they found him several blocks away in a tree and got him down.
I too used to hang around the Madison shop in the mid 60's. You never knew who might wander in. Roy Acuff, Jerry Byrd Jimmy Day and on and on. Shot took me in many many times backstage to the Opry at the old Ryman and turned me loose. He was a jewell. Never be another Shot.
Oh yes, I remember Sarge liked his whiskey. He was quite a drinker. They always left an aluminum pie pan on then floor with whiskey in it and everytime I saw Sarge he was 3 sheets in the wind but a very happy guy.
Just an few memories for you guys. Hope you enjoy.
Ron |
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Ron Funk
From:
Ballwin, Missouri
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Posted 6 Jun 2015 2:32 pm
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| Shot is responsible for the Willie Nelson & "Trigger" combination. |
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Micky Byrne
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United Kingdom (deceased)
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Posted 8 Jun 2015 7:54 am Re: Shot Jackson stories.... tell us yours...
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I met Shot and Dobro player Bashfull brother Oswald once in London U.K. They were guest of a Country music editor of a Magazine called Country Music people called Bob Powell. This was the very early 70's and I'd not being playing long. I had a cheap "Denley" steel...3 pedals and 1 knee lever (British made) How things have since progressed. In the intermission, Shot came up to me and strummed across my steel....I had an A6th Tuning. He said to me in his Tennessee accent "Boy you can't play country on that" .. Anyhow he was great to chat to. At the end of the gig he invited us back to the hotel as he had a single 10 Sho-Bud there. I declined as it was late and we had to head home. I saw Bob Powell later at another gig, and he said that Shot would have probably given me the Sho-Bud as at that time all that was comming into the UK were ZB's...it was early days of steels in the U.K. Nice that I met "THE" creator of Sho-Buds
Micky "scars" Byrne U.K. |
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Rudy Hawk
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Carrollton,Ohio,USA
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Posted 14 Jun 2015 10:08 am
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After weeks of delay due to my real job, I had returned to the recording studio one day to sing the rest of the songs to complete my album. This was back in the early 70s when musicians were actually present for the session. As I stood just inside the engineer's door, Shot came up beside me as I listened to them playing back the last song from my previous taping. Shot leaned over to me and said "Now son, that's how it's done". He later told me he did not recognize me or realize it was me singing on the earlier play back over the speakers until I started singing the next set of songs. Maybe it was my casual attire that day after a long drive to get there. When the recording session finally ended that day, Shot with his dobro contribution on my project, walked over to me, smiled and approvingly shook my hand. What an honor that was for me, and a major highlight in my life.
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