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Topic: Which two steel players would you pick? |
Billy Carr
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Seminary, Mississippi, USA (deceased)
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Posted 15 May 2005 12:44 am |
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| I've often wondered about the two steel players I would like to sit down and jam with just for fun and then learn a few licks from each one. Today I think it might be (1) Paul Franklin (2) Buddy Emmons Of course, that may change tomorrow. Anybody care to throw in there two cents! |
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Jim Phelps
From:
Mexico City, Mexico
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Posted 15 May 2005 12:59 am
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You're either heck of a better steel player than I am or got a lot more guts!
Jam with Emmons, Franklin or other legendary players?
I'd feel like a cartoonist trading licks with Da Vinci.
I could probably play with them if I played standard guitar, but steel, no. |
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Ian Finlay
From:
Kenton, UK
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Posted 15 May 2005 1:00 am
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Easy - Don Helms and Joaquin Murphey.
Ian |
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David Mason
From:
Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 15 May 2005 1:54 am
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| Dave Easley and Debashish Bhattacharya. |
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Billy Carr
From:
Seminary, Mississippi, USA (deceased)
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Posted 15 May 2005 2:54 am
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| Jim, I remember the very first steel show I ever played in probably five or six years ago. I was playing an old LDG Sho-Bud. I was following Jeff Newman on his U-12 as far taking turns to play a couple of verses. That was really tough but to may matters worst, John Hughey was sitting on the front row. But since then I've played several of the steel shows and have got to spend a little time with some of the players like John,Hal Rugg,Mike Johnson,Bill Stafford,Don Helms,Hal Higgins and some others. It's a lot of fun and all of these guys are nice and helpful if you want to know about a lick or something they don't mind sharing. |
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Robert Cook
From:
Collierville,TN
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Posted 15 May 2005 3:23 am
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It would have to be Pete Drake and Rusty Young. I always thought Pete Drake had the tone to be desired and Rusty Young for the innovation.
And as John Sebastian said in Nashville Cats," and anyone who unpacks his guitar can play twice as better than I will." |
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Rick Garrett
From:
Tyler, Texas
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Posted 15 May 2005 3:35 am
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Thats an easy one for me. Bobby Garrett and Curley Chalker.
Rick |
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Mike Richardson
From:
Rutledge, Georgia, USA
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Posted 15 May 2005 4:17 am
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Oh Boy!!! I think I would like to jam with Bobbe Seymour and Joe Wright.
Mike Richardson |
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Bill Stafford
From:
Gulfport,Ms. USA
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Posted 15 May 2005 4:49 am
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Jerry Byrd, Curly Chalker. And many more. lol
(Noel Boggs, Speedy West, Herby Wallace etc) If I could learn only one new note from each of those great players, I would be in hog-heaven the rest of my life). Nice subject, Billy. See you soon.
Bill Stafford |
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Roy McKinney
From:
Ontario, OR
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Posted 15 May 2005 5:13 am
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| JAY DEE MANESS would have to be the man. I got to set with him abut 45 years ago (and a couple of years ago also)and he blew me away then with his playing and he still does today. [This message was edited by Roy McKinney on 15 May 2005 at 06:26 AM.] |
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David L. Donald
From:
Koh Samui Island, Thailand
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Posted 15 May 2005 5:35 am
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Well I did sit down with Doug Jernigan...
and I am still digesting it.
If one person crosses over smoothly between Buddy Emmons jazz and classic country it's Doug.
Number two... dang that's a tough one.
Big E for sure.
Murph
Chalker
Speedy
Zane
Leon
Wolf
PF
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John Daugherty
From:
Rolla, Missouri, USA
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Posted 15 May 2005 7:30 am
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| I can think of so many great steel players who are great guys to boot. Trying to pick two, would do an injustice to so many. God Bless all of them. |
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Marty Pollard
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Posted 15 May 2005 7:40 am
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Naw, simple.
Lloyd and ummm...
hmmm
lessee...
how 'bout, um,
Milo or Travis Toy perhaps? |
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Ted Solesky
From:
Mineral Wells, Texas, USA
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Posted 15 May 2005 7:46 am
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| I have a valuable picture of me jamming with Curly Chalker. We were at a mutual friend's birthday party (in Vegas) and this friend had his steel set up (opposite of my set up) and begged me to play. Curly was very forgiving. |
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Dick Wood
From:
Springtown Texas, USA
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Posted 15 May 2005 7:52 am
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23 years ago in a small town near Fort Worth I got to stand right next to Buddy Emmons as he finished one of the fastest songs I had ever heard. I walked out of the club and almost threw my steel in the nearest dumpster from the stark reality that I would never be able to play like that.
I'm still trying but don't know if I could ever sit across from Buddy,Paul or even that nutty Bob Carlucci  |
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Al Marcus
From:
Cedar Springs,MI USA (deceased)
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Posted 15 May 2005 8:27 am
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TWO? That would be hard to pick only two.
But for me it would be Maurice Anderson and Curly Chalker......al 
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Adrienne Clasky
From:
Florida, USA
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Posted 15 May 2005 9:16 am
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| Greg Leisz and Paul Franklin. Then, I'd like the brilliant--but insane--Joe Wright to sit in for me, since there is no way I'd play with those two. It would be wrong, morally wrong. But, I'd love to hear the three of them trade licks. |
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Jim Peters
From:
St. Louis, Missouri, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 15 May 2005 11:25 am
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| Buddy Cage and Lloyd Green. JP |
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John Rosett
From:
Missoula, MT
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Posted 15 May 2005 11:42 am
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tom morrell!
and then,
more tom morrell... |
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Jim Phelps
From:
Mexico City, Mexico
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Posted 15 May 2005 1:11 pm
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In the '80's and early '90's in Vegas, Chalker invited me several times to set-up his old MSA beside him at his house and jam and he'd show me some stuff. Man.... it literally makes me feel sick to think of it now.
I never did it, because I'd quit playing steel and sold my D-10 Sho-Bud around '86, took a regular job in '84 and hadn't touched a steel since then. I would've felt like a complete idiot next to Chalker, trying to play his steel with his setup, I would've been bad enough if I'd even still had my own.
Curls did insist I borrow his old MSA and take it home, which I did. I couldn't do much on it anymore, I just was not in steelplayer mode anymore. I did play some gigs on regular guitar with Chalker and went to hear him play every weekend in a small casino, sat right in front of him. I have a cassette of one night. Couple clips of him on my website. Not like setting up beside him, but still was a real education.
Funny thing is I was not that much of a Chalker fan, I hadn't heard his recordings, until I met him, he gave me More Ways To Play and Counterpoint, and when I heard him and worked with him live, man....
I played steel while he was in the audience a few times in the early '80's before quitting, I got through it OK and Curls was very nice and complimentary.
If I could go back and do it again, I would take him up on that little steelguitar get-together, but it's a chance forever lost. |
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Larry Robbins
From:
Fort Edward, New York
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Posted 15 May 2005 1:58 pm
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Thats easy,
Bobbe Seymour and Neil Flanz....but when they heard me play they would both laugh so hard we wouldn't get any playing done! |
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Posted 15 May 2005 2:23 pm
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Lloyd Green and JD Maness, and Sneaky Pete, and Weldon and Buddy and Don and Tom and Hal and John and Doug and Larry and...and...
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Howard Tate
From:
Leesville, Louisiana, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 15 May 2005 3:02 pm
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| After not playing for several years, I set up in Bill Staffords house. Peewee Whitewing was there. I was terrible but they were great. Great people too. Mike Brewer was there with his midi setup, playing some very good jazz and show tunes. How you gonna choose two? Maybe Bill adn Peewee again. Maybe Joe Wright and John Hughey, or...... |
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Ron Scott
From:
Michigan
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Posted 15 May 2005 3:13 pm
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I lived not too far from Terry Bethel for a couple years but never got to sit and play next to him to learn licks but I sure would have like to..RS
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John Macy
From:
Rockport TX/Denver CO
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Posted 15 May 2005 4:38 pm
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| No brainer for me--Mike Smith and Paul Franklin ... |
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