Where were you 45 years ago?

ray qualls · From: Baxter Springs, Kansas (deceased)

Camp Stanley-Korea

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Skip Cole · From: North Mississippi

Southwest Dekalb HS , Decatur, Ga . Wish i had started learning to play steel back then , maybe i'd learned something by now. Confused

Walter Stettner · From: Vienna, Austria

Fresh out of hospital, I was born only 10 days ago! Very Happy

Kind Regards, Walter
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ray qualls · From: Baxter Springs, Kansas (deceased)

Belated Happy Birthday Walter. Skip I wasn't out of high school to long before this picture. I was thinking " what have I got myself into being over here". Shocked

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Fred Justice · From: Mesa, Arizona

At the tender age of 13 you can only imagine what I was doing, you most likely don't really want to know. Laughing

The steel guitar didn't come along for another 10 years. Surprised

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ray qualls · From: Baxter Springs, Kansas (deceased)

Fred, you were probably getting a grip on yourself at 13. Embarassed

Better let it go!
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Jack Stoner · From: Kansas City, MO

Jan 1962, I was in the Air Force and stationed in Taipei, Taiwan. Depending on the particular day (I didn't look it up) I could have been playing music in the band we had.

Early 1962 (I don't remember the month), we were the first American's to appear live on Taiwaneese Television. We had a Taiwaneese drummer that arranged the "cultural" appearance. At the time, the Taiwaneese were only broadcasting a couple of hours in the evening. We went on right after the evening news. I don't remember much about the band, but the singer had been a regular on the "Big D" Jamboree in Dallas and on a kids afternoon TV show. Our steel player (I was playing rhythm guitar) was "Bob" from Beaumont, TX and played a D-8 Fender that he had added a homemade pedal to.

JERRY THURMOND · From: sullivan mo u.s.a.

I just got out of the Navy boot camp, reported for duty in Corpus Christi Tx, Squadron Tr 30 on the 3rd of Jan 62. I was only 17 yrs old an scared,on the 4th of Jan I was with a flight crew on the Uss Lexington for two weeks training, I grew up rather fast from then on. Jerry

Lavelle Pierce · From: huntsvile,ar 72740

well ray i was 23 and out of armu 1958 and had a band dance club and did not have all the trouble like they do no.

Jerry Maranville · From: Matheson, CO USA - deceased

Going to Colorado State University and trying my best for several hours a day to learn how to play my new Fender 400.

Colm Chomicky · From: Kansas, (Prairie Village)

lemme think, First Grade ? Writing a thankyou note to Santee Claus.

Leland Ogle · From: Baxter Springs, Kansas, USA

I was in the forth grade, getting in trouble. At that age I was thinking about how much I hated piano lessons.
Lee

Greg Simmons · From: where the buffalo (used to) roam AND the Mojave

I was still about 7 months away Very Happy

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David Doggett · Posted 5 Jan 2007 4:52 pm

I was 15 years old, playing sax in a rockabilly band in Oxford, Mississippi, hanging out at Blaylocks soda fountain on the Square, and going crazy over girls. Razz

Jay Yuskaitis · From: Massachusetts, USA

Nor here, nor there, just about where I am now.
All kidding aside, I was in my prime, playing just about every night of the week, believe it or not, I didn't do too bad. Back then, I was invited to every occasion on the local front.
There is no way I could keep this pace today.
WHAT A CRY BABY I'VE TURNED OUT TO BE. There
is no doubt old age has set in.
Jay Y.

Terry Wood · From: Lebanon, MO

Hi Ray,

I was in the first grade getting my recess taken away for not finishing my school work. Well, now I'm on the other end of it. Wink

Is it true what goes around comes around? Well, I had some pretty good teachers back then and they taught me alot about values and the right things.

Was that you in those greens? Take care and remember our steel show next June 2007.

GOD bless!

Terry Wood

Billy Carr · From: Seminary, Mississippi, USA (deceased)

Well 45 years ago, I would've been 4 years old and then turned 5 in June of 62'. I remember Sunday night jam sessions at our house. My father played a 6 string Rickenbacker at that time and a lot of the guys were coming over then. Believe it or not, I'm still pickin' with some of those very guys, even today. I was just a kid, doing what kids do but in 69', I think it was, I knew something big had happened among the local pickers. All of the sudden, everybody started coming to our house to look at this particular steel guitar. My father had sold his D-8 Fender and bought a 66' model rosewood D-10 Emmons from the Big E. This was a big deal in Laurel, Ms. People still talk about it, even 36 years later. My father died in Dec.70'. The p/p was put in a closet for a year in the case. One of my aunts married a steel player from Houston, Texas and brought him to meet the family in Mississippi. His name is Bobby Bowman! Yep. Ole BB! He set the p/p up for me and was the first one to actually get me started playing pedal steel. Shortly after that, I met John Hughey at a Friday night Conway Twitty concern in Runnelstown, Ms. That's all it took! Thanks to BB & JH, here I am in 07' still pickin' and carrying on a tradition as a second generation steel player!

George Duncan Sypert · From: Colo Spgs, Co, USA

New Port, RI freezing to death attending the Naval School of Military Justice about the 3rd day of a 5 week course. The wind coming off the ocean this time of year was a killer.
Glad to get back to San Antonio about 6 weeks later.

Doug Beaumier · From: Northampton, MA

1962... I was in the 7th grade, going to this school!
And I had no idea what a steel guitar was Laughing

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Lee Baucum · From: McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier

Wilson Elementary School-McAllen, TX
4th Grade

Paul King · From: Gainesville, Texas, USA

I was here in Gainesville, Texas at the ripe old age of 23 months. I had a new brother who was 2 weeks old and I was probably helping momma change his diapers. I too did not know what a steel guitar was but time has sure brought it to my attention.

Darvin Willhoite · From: Roxton, Tx. USA

I was 11 years old in the 5th grade at Claremont Elementary School, in Claremore, Ok. Whew that was a long time ago, I wouldn't know what a pedal steel was for another 10 years.
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Ken Lang · From: Simi Valley, Ca

I was walking at nearly a 45 degree angle, trying to make progress between buildings, at the University of Buffalo, in the crazy headwinds coming across Lake Erie. I had to play 4-6 nights a week to support myself and had far more fun making music than I did studying engineering. However, engineering proved to be the money maker in my life and the music a side line. The few times I did turn to music and the road life I came back poorer than when I left.

Janice Brooks · From: Pleasant Gap Pa

Driving my mother crazy at age 3 1/2

Thom Beeman · From: California, USA, R.I.P.

Junior in high school, working as guitarist with a gospel quartet. On week-ends going to Town Hall Party in So.Ca. listening to Uncle Joe Maphis and meeting real country royalty, folks like Speedy West, Ralph Mooney, The Maddox family, etc. We lived next door to a young girl who was learning to play PSG, who later became famous with her sister's in country music, her dad was a highway patrolman, any guess's. haha. Enjoy reading the posts on this subject.

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