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Topic: Can you remember the first professional pedal steel player y |
Bill Myrick
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Pea Ridge, Ar. (deceased)
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Posted 14 Dec 2001 9:11 pm |
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| For me it was a young Buddy Emmons playing a steel with what I believe were added pedals to a standard guitar and it was with Ernest Tubb at The Audrain County fair in Mexico, Mo. sometime around "56 to 57" I believe. Made the hair stand on my arms and left a life time impression !!! |
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Bob Knight
From:
Bowling Green KY
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Posted 14 Dec 2001 9:16 pm
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| Doyle Grissom(sp?) Dallas TX 1961. |
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Chick Donner
From:
North Ridgeville, OH USA
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Posted 14 Dec 2001 9:40 pm
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| Yup . . . it was Len Ryder (Lemieux, of this forum) playing his 3 neck ShoBud in the New Frontier Lounge in Kalakaua Avenue on Waikii beach . . . saw him (and my 1st steel guitar) on Saturday nite - returned Sunday nite and BOUGHT it - still with a full leg cast on one leg, and I think I still had a cast on one arm at the time. That was not only the first steel PLAYER I'd seen . . . it waw also the first pedal GUITAR I'd ever seen. |
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chas smith R.I.P.
From:
Encino, CA, USA
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Posted 14 Dec 2001 10:10 pm
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| JD Maness, at the Palomino with the Palomino Riders. |
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Posted 14 Dec 2001 10:31 pm
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Rusty Young, with Poco. I still can't do that thing with the chair.  |
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Cairo Zoots
From:
Moville, Iowa ,next to the west fork of the Little Sioux River
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Posted 14 Dec 2001 11:03 pm
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Speedy West and Glen Campbell in Southern California in early 60's. WOW!
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Jim Whitaker
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 14 Dec 2001 11:25 pm
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| Chuck Rich on Cincy's midwestern hayride with kenny price on drums ! |
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Joerg Hennig
From:
Bavaria, Germany
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Posted 15 Dec 2001 12:35 am
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| Mooney with Waylon in ยด83. Unfortunately, I was more interested in the guitar than the steel back then. The next one was Gerry Hogan with Albert Lee some years later. Steel a mystery to me. [This message was edited by Joe Henry on 15 December 2001 at 01:06 AM.] |
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ESnow
From:
Berryville AR USA
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Posted 15 Dec 2001 1:07 am
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| Paul Franklin at the Hall Of Fame club in Nashville fall of 1980. I went there 4 or 5 nights in a row to watch Paul and Phil Baugh trade licks. I also met Bruce Bouton there one of those nights. I was really hooked after that. |
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John Cadeau
From:
Surrey,B.C. Canada
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Posted 15 Dec 2001 1:35 am
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Ollie Strong, working with Bill Long in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He got me hooked on steel guitar.
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Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 15 Dec 2001 1:59 am
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The first steel guitarist I saw live was Rusty Young with the original Pogo, spelled with a G, before they were forced to change thier name.
The second was our fellow forumite Chas Smith. |
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Jerry Horner
From:
Tahlequah, OK, USA
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Posted 15 Dec 2001 2:14 am
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| Billy Bowman with Bob Wills In Tulsa, Oklahoma at Cains Ballroom. |
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Jack Stoner
From:
Kansas City, MO
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Posted 15 Dec 2001 3:08 am
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| Noel Boggs with his Fender. It was 1962 at a USO show in Taipei Taiwan. |
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Rick Schmidt
From:
Prescott AZ, USA
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Posted 15 Dec 2001 4:05 am
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Rusty Young at teen club called the "Rugged Room" in Denver probably around 66 or 67 with a rock band called the "Boenzee' Crik" (sp?). This cool band predated Poco by a coulple years at least. Now when I think about it, I can't remember noticing the absence of a lead guitar at the time. I'm pretty sure Rusty did all the leads on PSG, but that was a long time ago...
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Johan Jansen
From:
Europe
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Posted 15 Dec 2001 5:11 am
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Herb Steiner
From:
Spicewood TX 78669
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Posted 15 Dec 2001 5:21 am
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My first memory of a steel guitar was on the Harry Owens TV show in LA in the early 1950's, so that must have been either Freddie or Ernest Tavares.
I used to watch the Spade Cooley TV show also, so I think it was either Joaquin or Marian Hall.
The first pedal steel player I remember on TV was either Red Rhodes or forumite Carl Walden. The first pedal steel players I saw live were Bert Rivera and Tom Brumley, at a Buck Owens/Hank Thompson concert in Anaheim CA in 1966.
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Gene Jones
From:
Oklahoma City, OK USA, (deceased)
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Posted 15 Dec 2001 5:34 am
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| Bob White! (but that was pre-E9 so by definition it may not be "pedal" steel) [This message was edited by Gene Jones on 15 December 2001 at 05:38 AM.] |
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Perry Hansen
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Bismarck, N.D.
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Posted 15 Dec 2001 5:55 am
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Jody McCully(sp). He used the 3rd and 4th fingers on his left hand to pull the strings. He was on a 4 neck Rickenbacker. This was in Oakland, Calif. in 56. The next was Buck Turner in San Diego on a Fender Stringmaster with a door hinge for a pedal.
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Jim Ashton
From:
Malta, Ohio USA
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Posted 15 Dec 2001 6:16 am
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Jimmy Anderson 1960 in Okinawa. He played a Fender 400. He was awesome. He was playing with another band. That band broke up and he started playing in our band. I played drums at the time. Later Jimmy moved on to Las Vegas and I heard he has since passed on. I always wanted to play steel after hearing him. I have been playing now for about 2 1/2 years steady. I tried one time before in 1976. Didn't work out then. Jim A.
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MALCOLM KIRBY
From:
Crofton, KY USA
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Posted 15 Dec 2001 6:20 am
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| Hal Rugg, I believe it was on the Eddie Hill early morning TV Show out of Nashville in the '60s. Jimmy Capps was the guitar player. WOW - what a way to start off a school day. |
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Steve Stallings
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Houston/Cypress, Texas
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Posted 15 Dec 2001 6:49 am
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The first steel player I saw live, was in my living room in Renton, Washington about 1966 or so. He was playing in a band with my step dad, Bob Adams. This gentlemans name was Larry Derosier and he was awesome. A few years back, courtesy of the forum, I located him and we talked on the telephone. He really didn't remember me, but clearly remembered my former step dad and this band.
The first big name/concert I saw with a steel was Poco/Rusty Young at Brown University in 1971.
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Bremond, Texas
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Larry Clark
From:
Herndon, VA.
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Posted 15 Dec 2001 7:38 am
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| Tommy Hannum was the first steel player I saw live. Played in a beer joint in Falls Church Va in the mid 70's. I believe he plays with Ricky Van Shelton now. |
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RON PRESTON
From:
Dodson, Louisiana, USA
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Posted 15 Dec 2001 7:54 am
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Jack Smith, 1970, Tupleo, Mississippi, when he was playing for the "HAPPY GOODMAN FAMILY" and he was playing a cherry red D-10 Sho-Bud,(if my memory serves me right)and I was blown out the door, because he took time after the show to talk to me. I was 16 at the time. I seen him once in 1980-1981,New Years night, playing at the "LEMON TREE LOUNGE" in Louisville, Ky. where Tommy White played 6 nights a week for Mike Lunsford.  |
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Chris Robbins
From:
Biggsville Illinois
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Posted 15 Dec 2001 7:57 am
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| John David Call of Pure Prarie Leauge at Western Ill University in 1975. Way ahead of his time and the reason I play today. |
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Mike Weirauch
From:
Harrisburg, Illinois**The Hub of the Universe
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Posted 15 Dec 2001 8:03 am
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| Buddy Emmons with ET at the Opry. I'm surprised I was old enough at the time to remember it! |
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