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thurlon hopper

 

From:
Elizabethtown Pa. USA
Post  Posted 5 Jun 2004 3:51 am    
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Buddy what year was Suite Steel recoded? Seems like i heard it when i was was working for Teruya Music in Okinawa about
1970. Does that sound right? Loved the album
thought you have the best version of Wichita
Lineman by far that i've heard. Lots of really great stuff on that album. Respectfully TJH
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Buddy Emmons

 

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Hermitage, TN USA * R.I.P.
Post  Posted 5 Jun 2004 5:02 am    
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Thurlon,
Thank you for the comments. Suite Steel was recorded while I lived in California, so 1969 or 1970 sounds right as a release date and possibly 1969 as the year it was recorded.
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HowardR


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N.Y.C.-Fire Island-Asheville
Post  Posted 5 Jun 2004 8:49 am    
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That was the very first pedal steel album that I bought.

I was turned onto the steel because of Rusty Young and Sneaky Pete and that's why I bought that album. I was overwhelmed by all of the other players who I never heard of before. It opened up a whole new world to me.

My first listening of "Wichita Lineman" was a religious experience to me.
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Rick Schmidt


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Prescott AZ, USA
Post  Posted 5 Jun 2004 9:06 am    
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I too use to have "religious" experiences like that in those days.

And yes...."Wichita Lineman" done by Buddy was one of them!

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Buddy Emmons

 

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Hermitage, TN USA * R.I.P.
Post  Posted 5 Jun 2004 9:45 am    
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It was a real treat working with all the great LA players on the Suite Steel album, but my most haunting memory is playing “Yesterday” with Sneaky Pete. Pete did a beautiful job of supplying rhythmic arpeggios behind my solo, but when it was my turn to support him, the bottom dropped out of the track. You’ll never believe how cold and lonely it got out there for me. Pete and I have known each other since we were teenagers and that experience renewed my respect for his talent and dispelled any notion that all roads for the steel guitar lead to Nashville. Sneaky Pete remains one of my favorite innovators of all time.
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Richard Sinkler


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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
Post  Posted 5 Jun 2004 10:38 am    
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L'Hiver Sur La Plage is my fave. It send electric type shocks up my spine (or maybe there's a short in my turntable), and makes my hair stand up. Very romantic sounding. I used to play it when my high school sweetheart and I would be doing... Well, you know what. Trouble is, I had to keep jumping up to put the needle back at the beginning. Of course, back then 3 minutes and 40 seconds was more than enough. Come to think of it, it still is

Where did you find that song?

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Buddy Emmons

 

From:
Hermitage, TN USA * R.I.P.
Post  Posted 5 Jun 2004 11:13 am    
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I remember the title very well but I don’t remember the melody. Had I known what affect it would have on listeners, I would have cut a longer version.

I’m almost certain the song was a suggestion of the producer, John Boylan. There’s an article on John and his track record as a producer at: http://members.aol.com/bartfan/boylan.htm

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Buddy Emmons

 

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Hermitage, TN USA * R.I.P.
Post  Posted 5 Jun 2004 11:23 am    
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It was through John that I recorded and worked dates with Rick Nelson and Linda Ronstadt and played on the Eagles first demo session. The night we were doing the demo I got John off to the side and said, “What do these guys call themselves?” John replied, “The Eagles.” I laughed and said, “the Eagles?”

Heh, heh. One of my more embarrassing moments.
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JamesMCross


From:
Houston, Texas, USA
Post  Posted 5 Jun 2004 1:13 pm    
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Is this recording available anywhere?

I looked on Amazon - no luck there.

Thanks!
jmc
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Wayne Franco

 

From:
silverdale, WA. USA
Post  Posted 5 Jun 2004 1:30 pm    
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Thanks for the John Boylan web link. That was a pretty amazing music scene down there in LA at that time. He sure was a big part of it! I use to go to the Troubadore a lot back then. I remember Bernie Leadon jamming with Doug Dillard after a Ramblin Jack Elliott Show. Funny how these things just pop into your memory banks. It really was a great time musically down there.

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Buddy Emmons

 

From:
Hermitage, TN USA * R.I.P.
Post  Posted 5 Jun 2004 1:46 pm    
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Indeed it was a great time. When I worked the Troubadour with Rick Nelson I got to meet Ozzie and Harriet. I was so excited, I never noticed whether they were drinking milk or beer.
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Wayne Franco

 

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silverdale, WA. USA
Post  Posted 5 Jun 2004 2:58 pm    
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What a trip getting to play with Ricky Nelson AND visa versa for him to get to play with you!. He has always been one of my favorites. I feel it was such a loss to not ever get to see him play live.
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Marco Schouten


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Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Post  Posted 6 Jun 2004 10:27 am    
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Hi Jim,

Next time you come over, we'll listen to it together

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Marco Schouten
Sho-Bud LLG; Guyatone 6 string lap steel; John Pearse bar; Emmons bar; Evans SE200 amp


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Jason Odd


From:
Stawell, Victoria, Australia
Post  Posted 7 Jun 2004 12:58 am    
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There's some dudes at Water Records out New Jersey way, or somewhere in New York who are reissuing some of the more obscure Atlantic and Elektra albums from the mid 1960s to the mid 1970s, maybe these guys will reissue the album in question.
(released 1970 on Elektra, recorded, 69-70, no-one has pinned it down yet and it hardly rates a mention in most books and articles related to these great pickers and the bands they were working with at the time.

I'd love to get a copy which plays, mine is kaputnik and then some.
(if I was inclined, I imagine there'd be a sad 'smiley' fan right about here)
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