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Topic: How many steelers have played in Mingus,Tx |
Wade Branch
From:
Weatherford, Texas, USA
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Posted 22 Dec 2005 9:48 am |
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| I was just curious how many players have played in some of the old clubs in Mingus,Tx ? If you have any stories I would love to hear them.Ive heard it was a rough place back in the old days.I played there a while back and it was fine, but everybody had me scared to death. |
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Chuck Cusimano
From:
Weatherford, Texas, USA
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Posted 22 Dec 2005 10:55 am
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Well Wade, YOU know I'm not a Steel player, but I will name the Steel Players I have personally worked with in MINGUS.
Gary Carpenter, a bunch of times.
Donnie Lavalley, A couple of times.
Rooster Crow, a couple of times, (With Kelly Spinks)
Jeff Evens, a couple of times. (with Jerry Webb)
I hope I'm not forgetting anyone. BTW, These were all at THE TRIO, |
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James Morehead
From:
Prague, Oklahoma, USA - R.I.P.
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Posted 22 Dec 2005 11:29 am
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| You can add Joan Cox to the list. I got to see her fill in with Bobby Flores' band a few weeks ago. What a SWEET touch on the steel she has!! Bobbe had a super night that night with Dave Biller on guitar, too. You just had to have been there, what a killer band! If I just knew a fifth of what these pickers had forgotten-------------- |
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Marlin Smoot
From:
Kansas
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Posted 22 Dec 2005 11:35 am
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Chuck,
I have played in and around a lot of places in Texas but never in Mingus. However, I have seen Gary Carpenter play and since you were in the same band with him, I know you guys were great! |
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Herb Steiner
From:
Briarcliff TX 78669, pop. 2,064
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Dick Wood
From:
Springtown Texas, USA
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Posted 22 Dec 2005 12:34 pm
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Played the Trio Club around 18 years ago and the Mayor walks up and informs me that I am on sacred ground cause Ralph Mooney had sat there and I said you haven't heard nuthin yet and that still holds true today.
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Cops aren't paid much so I steel at night. |
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Wade Branch
From:
Weatherford, Texas, USA
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Posted 23 Dec 2005 7:15 am
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Chuck- I figured you had made your way out there a time or two by now.
Herb- You have to understand,you cant play purple rain as a shuffle there and not expect a gun or two to come out,thats a tough crowd.
Dick- Ralph Mooney ? holy pedal pusher batman !! that be would tough for even for me !!those are big picks to fill.Iam sure what ralph mooney licks you could,nt pull off you probably dazzled them with that super model face of yours,you know the one Ted Solesky is so jealous of !! haha |
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Wade Branch
From:
Weatherford, Texas, USA
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Posted 2 Jan 2006 7:35 am
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| C'mon surely there's been more |
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Chris Schlotzhauer
From:
Colleyville, Tx. USA
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Posted 2 Jan 2006 8:49 am
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| Never played steel there, but I've fronted several times. It's been a few years. |
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Roger Edgington
From:
San Antonio, Texas USA
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Posted 2 Jan 2006 8:04 pm
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| I played there with Billy Mata and I don't recall any problems but I usually miss all the action. |
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Ricky Davis
From:
Bertram, Texas USA
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Posted 2 Jan 2006 8:20 pm
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Yep; I've played there and also another club called "The white house"(something like that) with Larry Joe Taylor and Gary P. Nunn; and others....>pretty much every time a Fight broke out at the white house; but I swear I didn't start it..ha..wink...(that was back when I did drink and did start fights..ha).
Ricky |
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Will Brumley
From:
Hubbard, TX
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Posted 2 Jan 2006 8:32 pm
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| Well what a surprise...Mingus, America has gone big time on the forum. I have playing steel a little and I play fiddle for C.B. Sutton there every Sunday at the Trio. It has calmed down a lot from what I hear. There was actually a news story written about a fight there and it reported that there were people fighting on the roof of the Trio as well as the back porch. Any of you that have ever been there know it has a rounded roof and about a 3 by 3 step of concrete out the back door...that would be a heck of a place to fight. Played next door at the SugarBush and a knife fight broke out and the owner stopped it with a piece of pipe about a foot long and a chair. Now don't get scared. It really isn't that bad on Sundays at the Trio an it is a heck of a place to here some music. C.B. plays some great music and there is an older crowd. Stop by and say hello if your down that way. I would like to hear some other stories. There got to be a ton of them. |
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Fred Jack
From:
Bastrop, Texas 78602
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Posted 3 Jan 2006 5:48 am
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| I heard they checked you at the door for guns and knives.If you didn't have any they gave you one. |
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Don Ricketson
From:
Llano, Texas
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Posted 3 Jan 2006 7:55 am
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I've played the Trio club many times. Mostly with Kelly Spinks and'Miles Of Texas' At that time Joe Belinsky (The Mayor)(and he actually was the mayor)was playing drums for us and his dad owned the Trio. I've been to Joes house many times and sat on the same couch where ole Ralph sat. Never seen any fights though because mainly "them was the good old days"  By the way Joe sent me an email last week. He's starting a new, old country music radio show starting Sunday Jan.8 2006 at 12:00 noon. It's on the web at www.countrygoldradio.com or FM 92.1 KTFW. Tune him in. You'll be proud you did. It's every sunday. Don.
[This message was edited by Don Ricketson on 03 January 2006 at 08:23 AM.] [This message was edited by Don Ricketson on 04 January 2006 at 10:08 PM.] |
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Gene Jones
From:
Oklahoma City, OK USA, (deceased)
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Posted 3 Jan 2006 8:54 am
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I've never played Mingus (that I remember), but from the description, I've played several places just like it!
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Sonny Priddy
From:
Elizabethtown, Kentucky, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 3 Jan 2006 7:37 pm
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Joan Cox Is One Great Steel Player. SONNY.
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