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Topic: Gene O'neil on Bob Hope Christmas Spl. |
Bobbe Seymour
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Hendersonville TN USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 1 Jan 2006 9:23 am |
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It was just wonderful to see this great old friend on this show playing his black D-10 Emmons P-P and his Sho-Bud "Christmas-tree" amp.
Gene played with Charlie Pride for nine years, and was the friend of hundreds of his fellow steel players.
Gene died a few years ago after a great professional playing career.
Guess I'll miss him until I'm gone too.
I hope we don't lose any this year.
Bobbe [This message was edited by BobbeSeymour on 02 January 2006 at 07:52 AM.] |
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Sonny Priddy
From:
Elizabethtown, Kentucky, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 1 Jan 2006 9:56 am
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I'm With You Bobbie. SONNY.
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Fred Shannon
From:
Rocking "S" Ranch, Comancheria, Texas, R.I.P.
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Posted 1 Jan 2006 11:09 am
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Bobbe, Gene was a tremendous player and a gent for certain. He was always willing to share any of his steel guitar knowledge with fellow steel players. When I was having so much trouble with my playing after returning from Nam in 1968, he and Sonny Curtis were instrumental in assisting me in developing a tuning that I could continue to play steel guitar. For that and his friendship I will always be thankful, and thanks to you for your sincerity in bringing his name back to the fore.
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Don McClellan
From:
California/Thailand
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Posted 1 Jan 2006 1:42 pm
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I never really knew Gene O'neil but I got to see and hear him play at the convention one year (maybe 1980 or so) and it was a year that Buddy wasn't there and I remember saying to Gene, "Who needs Buddy Emmons with you here?" He was that good that day. He was all over the C neck with nasty attack. It was very impressive.
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Jimmie Martin
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 1 Jan 2006 1:48 pm
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| i didn't know the guy but you still have plenty of milleage on you bobbe. |
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HowardR
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N.Y.C.-Fire Island-Asheville
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Posted 1 Jan 2006 2:41 pm
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along with some tolls...  |
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Ben Lawson
From:
Brooksville Florida
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Posted 1 Jan 2006 5:17 pm
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| Gene and I swapped P/P Emmons' back around '77. I'd like to see what he was playing during that special, it may have been one from that trade. He was a great guy and player. |
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Hook Moore
From:
South Charleston,West Virginia
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Posted 2 Jan 2006 6:32 am
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I have to agree Bobbe, Gene O` was a bunch of fun to be around, great human being and excellent musician. I miss him too.
Hook
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Bobby Caldwell
From:
St. Louis, Missouri, USA * R.I.P.
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Posted 4 Jan 2006 6:41 am
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| Gene was a great player and a super guy. I'll always miss him too. And I'll never forget him playing "Funky Monkey". Thanks Bobbe for the memorie. Bobby [This message was edited by Bobby Caldwell on 04 January 2006 at 06:42 AM.] |
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Wayne Cox
From:
Chatham, Louisiana, USA * R.I.P.
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Posted 4 Jan 2006 7:06 am
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I first met GENE in Amarillo,TX, his home town. In later years we both became friends in Nashville,along with a rogue maniac Echoplex player named BOBBE SEYMORE. I miss those days, in many ways, but It is the good friends like BOBBE & GENE I miss the most. It really bothered me that GENE went through such difficult health issues before his death,but I also find great comfort in knowing that he left a lot of "happy tracks" for the rest of us to follow in. A great musician and a great friend! Thanks for bringing this up,BOBBE!
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Bobbe Seymour
From:
Hendersonville TN USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 4 Jan 2006 2:30 pm
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Hey Wayne, you were right there with us, playing, jamming, exchanging ideas and setting the bar even higher! Gene replaced me at "The Western Room" in "Printers Ally", and guess who relaced him, yep! You! And a great job you did too!
Your tone, execution, attitude and general friendship with all your peers is greatly missed and not forgotten.
Things have a way of changing in Nashville and in the music business the world over. You, Gene, Jim Vest, Terry Crisp, Frank Parrish, Paul Franklin, Curly Chalker, Stu Basore, Ronnie Prophet and the "Mid-Seventies in crowd" is something I'll never forget.
Thank YOU Wayne.
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