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Topic: Thomas Indian Band w/ Bigsby Gtrs. |
Eric Stumpf
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Newbury, NH 03255
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chas smith R.I.P.
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Encino, CA, USA
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Posted 15 Nov 2003 11:22 am |
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| Yup, those are the real things. Jeremy Wakefield has the steel. |
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Ray Montee
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Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 15 Nov 2003 1:11 pm
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| The Standard guitar looks just like one of Grady Martin's early models. A friend of mine has one identical, purchased new. |
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Jason Odd
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Stawell, Victoria, Australia
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Posted 15 Nov 2003 6:10 pm
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| Ray, I was thinking the same thing.. except I don't have any friends with one, new or otherwise. |
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Jussi Huhtakangas
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Helsinki, Finland
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Posted 16 Nov 2003 3:12 am
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I have an album with a slightly different picture on the cover, it shows the whole family, nine people altogether. JW indeed has the pedal steel now. The doubleneck is a little different from Grady's; it has a ten string mando neck, Grady's had a five string, and JB Thomas' guitar has only two PU's on the standard neck, Grady's had three. On my album, there's also a photo of Mack Thomas on the back cover with the "world's largest pedal steel" ; a triple 10 string Bigsby with about twenty pedals on it. I think Chas knows more about this monster. All I can say is, that obviously The Thomas family was pretty hip to the gear  |
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chas smith R.I.P.
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Encino, CA, USA
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Posted 16 Nov 2003 11:56 am
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| It was a monster, a walnut table really, that evidently made it into the Guinness book as the world's largest steel guitar. I thought seriously about buying it and didn't, because I couldn't think of what I was going to do with it. I also could have bought the T-8 Mac Thomas guitar, but I already had a T-8. |
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Eric Stumpf
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Newbury, NH 03255
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Posted 16 Nov 2003 2:25 pm
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| Really, that steel guitar was bigger than the brontosaurus Eddie Martin made in his basement and is seen playing on the Merle Travis video? I can feel the lower back pain just thinking about it. |
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Jussi Huhtakangas
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Helsinki, Finland
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Posted 16 Nov 2003 10:56 pm
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Oh yeah, the Eddie Martin guitar... The Bigsby is probably about the same size, but Eddie Martin's guitar wasn't a pedal steel.
Back to the album; it actually is a nice blend of Hawaiian music and sacred hymns. |
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