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Topic: Peggy Green And Boston Steelers In The 80's |
Chris Templeton
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The Green Mountain State
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Posted 18 Nov 2024 4:09 am |
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One my first steel teachers was Peggy Green, around Boston. She played a nice blonde, double neck Sho~Bud.
Anyone know what she's up to?
Other steelers that I looked up to in the Boston area in the 80's were, Jeff Peterson, Donny Dion, Darrell Scott (he wrote "A Great Day To Be Alive), Mike Ihde at Berklee, Mike Johnson, who played a homade sing neck and was with a group called "Rocking Horsee"
There was also a great steeler who taught pedal steel at the Music Emporium, in Cambridge. I don't remember his name.
There was also Pete Adams who played with The Cobble Mountain Band, in Western Mass..
I hadn't heard of Bill Hankey then. The Mass Bash was to come.
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Brett Day
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Pickens, SC
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Posted 18 Nov 2024 9:30 am
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| Not sure what Peggy Green is up to, but I saw a video where she had a Franklin pedabro |
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Chris Templeton
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The Green Mountain State
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Lee Baucum
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McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 18 Nov 2024 10:41 am
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Thanks for the post. I've often wondered whatever became of Peggy.
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Chris Templeton
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The Green Mountain State
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Posted 20 Nov 2024 6:05 pm
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Wow, you're going back 40 years, Chris!
I met Peggy Green back in the 80s at the pedal steel shows in western Mass and in the Boston area. It's been decades, but I heard that she left the area years ago. I see that she's recorded a couple of albums but I don't know where she is.
Jeff Patterson also left the area a long time ago. I heard that he moved to New Hampshire, and I haven't heard anything since.
Donnie Dion passed away quite a few years ago.
Mike Ihde died about a year ago.
Pete Adams is still very active here in western Mass and CT. He plays with several bands and he does recording sessions. I played in a band with Pete for 15 years... Pete on steel and me on guitar. A lot of good times.
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Chris Templeton
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The Green Mountain State
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Posted 20 Nov 2024 7:21 pm
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My friend's cousin, Walter Palmer (Tyringham), was lead singer in The Cobble Mountain Band and Pete played with them.
Jeff Patterson was/is excellent! There's a JP in Nashville and I thought it might have been him.
A favorite hangout for me was The Blue Star Lounge in Saugus. John Penny hosted a weekly jam there.
Peggy played there and Bob Stanton played smokin' Telecaster and now teaches at Berklee.
When Ned Steinberger and Sierra made my Tapper, a pedal with a second compensated bridge to keep the fretting or "tapping" in tune, Mike Ihde invited me to go a give a talk and demonstration at Berklee.
I never heard Him play.
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Mike Holder
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Alabama! Home of the great “Don Helms” & his singer “Hank Williams”!
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Posted 20 Nov 2024 10:52 pm
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I met Peggy Green in Toronto around 1996, I helped her record her”My Voice” CD. At that time she had a gorgeous trio of matching Franklins. A D-10 pedal steel, D-9 Pedabro and C-6 Pedabro. We lost touch after that however her Franklins came up for sale from a music store in Wisconsin and it was divulged to me that Peggy had passed away and had no family so her estate was purchased and being sold, this was around 2020. The prices were quite high on the Pedabro’s and not sure if they sold but that’s what I heard about Peggy. I remember her as a very good musician and a very pleasant person. Sad she passed alone in that manor. Wish I had a better story about her. R.I.P.
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