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Topic: Mistaken Identity......? |
Ray Montee
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Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 10 Nov 2005 9:07 pm |
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So many top name steel guitar artists are very distinctive in their style of playing.
Among them, Jerry Byrd, Don Helms, Roy Wiggens, Buddy Emmons, Lloyd Green, etc., etc. To properly identify them, one must determine the tuning being played, any signature licks, specific TONE, and things like that. I recently received a fine tune by Wesley Tuttle and the steel player was said to be Jerry Byrd. WHAT DO YOU think?
Is it is, or is it ain't? Go to: http://jerrybyrdfanclub.com/AboutRay.htm |
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Ricky Davis
From:
Bertram, Texas USA
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Posted 10 Nov 2005 9:16 pm
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WEll it doesn't sound like Jerry Byrd to me; in that Jerry never played an out-of-tune note in his life. Also the texture of string hits don't sound like Jerry and certainly the bar hand doesn't sound like Jerry. And sounds like a Rickenbacher to me.
Ricky |
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Mitch Drumm
From:
Frostbite Falls, hard by Veronica Lake
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Posted 10 Nov 2005 10:13 pm
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That's a West Coast recording from about 1951 and has about zero chance of being Jerry Byrd.
Tuttle recorded heavily for 10 or more years in LA with a lot of steel players. Among them were Speedy West, Pete Martinez, Phil Marx, Noel Boggs, Joaquin Murphey, Les Anderson, Dick Stubbs, and probably others.
I have no idea who it is, but it's totally unremarkable with no identifiable licks that I can hear--seriously doubt it is Joaquin or Boggs. Tuttle did a lot of stuff with Speedy, but I don't hear anything that says Speedy, so a wild guess would be Martinez, Marx, Anderson, or Stubbs, but only by process of elimination. |
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Ray Montee
From:
Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 11 Nov 2005 4:45 pm
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| Sorta sounds to me like an "early" Speedy West, as on the old Cliffie Stone and Eddie Kirk records. He and Jerry Byrd were quite close and admired each other's playing. |
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