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Topic: Bobby G.Rice-Steel guitar player??-Info please! |
Egil Skjelnes
From:
Meland,Frekhaug
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Posted 7 Feb 2007 12:46 am |
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Hi
I just got an old LP by Singer Bobby G. Rice,and there he plays Bud`s Bounce.Very good playing too! I thought he was a singer only,but seems to have a wider background as well.Anybody that have seen him play,know him,or can tell more about this side of him?? There are probably another LP that he play steel on as well-The Rice Family Band.If anybody got this record and don`t need it,I am interested if you want to part with it.
Regards from Egil. |
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Steve Hinson
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Hendersonville Tn USA
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Posted 7 Feb 2007 4:31 am
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Bobby was indeed a steel player...he told me he bought a ZB and a Blackface Twin with JBLs when"Together Again"came out...I never saw the ZB,but I bought the Twin...still got it!Bobby used to sit in on my steel when he worked a club where I was playing...he played good.Nice man too!
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Charley Adair
From:
Maxwell, Texas, USA
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Posted 7 Feb 2007 6:02 am
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In '69 & '70 I was on board ship with a guy whose brother played bass for Bobby Rice & the Rice Boys. I remember talking about him playing steel although I never got to hear him. Then later Bobby G. Rice came out with some songs and I often wondered if it was the same Bobby Rice. I just recently reconnected with my Navy buddy and he confirmed that they were one in the same.
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 7 Feb 2007 8:44 am Yeah buddy!
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| I think Bobby was easily the best singer I ever heard who also played steel. He had a song out in the early '70s, I believe..."Until Someone Better Comes Along, She's Mine" or something like that. Great Song!!! Bobby and Stan Hitchcock were two of my favorite singers from that period...along with Curtis Potter. |
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ray qualls
From:
Baxter Springs, Kansas (deceased)
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Posted 7 Feb 2007 9:40 am
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I think it was Bobby that had out " you lay so easy on my mind". This was in the early 70's also! Ray
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Ray Qualls
Member(KSGA)
Inducted into KSGA
Steel Guitar Hall of Fame 2008 |
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Roger Shackelton
From:
MINNESOTA (deceased)
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Posted 7 Feb 2007 10:17 am
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| I believe Jeff Newman played a Fender 1000 on one of Bobby's albums. |
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Charley Adair
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Maxwell, Texas, USA
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Posted 7 Feb 2007 11:52 am
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Ray, you are right about "You Lay So Easy On My Mind". Bobbt did do it.
Charley |
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John Cadeau
From:
Surrey,B.C. Canada
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Posted 7 Feb 2007 1:20 pm Bobby G. Rice
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One of the highlights of my years playing, was playing steel for Bobby on a show many years ago. I didn't know he was a steeler. If I did I probably would have been very nervous. I thoroughly enjoyed the experience. A great singer and super nice guy. I did notice that when I did the harmonics in "You Lay So Easy On My Mind", Bobby did look over and watched me play. Later when he was interviewed by the local paper he praised our band up very highly in the interview.
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Joe Casey
From:
Weeki Wachee .Springs FL (population.9)
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Posted 7 Feb 2007 2:26 pm
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| Not only did Bobby record "You lay so easy" he wrote the song along with Charlie Fields. On one show we did with Bobby he asked my Steeler Jim Smith if he could sit in at the steel and did and he has all the chops believe me. I worked several shows with Bobby and we became good friends. One of the nicest guys you will ever meet in this business. I believe he owns Midland studios and the label in Nashville and if anyone wants to do any recording,with Bobby you can't go wrong. He re-released "you Lay so easy in the 80s after a lot of people kept asking him to. The original went to #1 for several weeks in 1972, and on the second release which made the top 10, on steel was Sony Garish. When the second release of the song came out he had an album featured showcase on the Nashville Network. Russ Hicks did that show with him with "the Eldorado".. That song is ready for a re-release. I'll bet it would fit Laney to a T. Make a good Steel song to release also. hear that Russ? |
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George Redmon
From:
Muskegon & Detroit Michigan.
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Posted 7 Feb 2007 7:33 pm Bobby & Lillie Powles
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Here is a picture of Bobby taken after a show we did up here in michigan in 1988. Bobby played Rose City Chimes on my old sho bud. The young lady bobby is holding, is my daughter PFC Lillie Powles. Lillie is 24 years old now, a member of this forum, and in the military.
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Bill Bailey
From:
Kingman, AZ
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Posted 7 Feb 2007 8:40 pm Bobby G Rice
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 I played steel for Bobby in Ft Collins Colorado, I am guesing around 1973. He never mentioned he played steel. He was a complete joy to play for and one of the first Stars I got to play for. The club hired him for one nite and he was without his band so we had one short rehersal in the afternoon and then we played later that nite.I still have the album he signed for me after the show.
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Leroy Golden
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Muskegon, Michigan, USA
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Posted 8 Feb 2007 6:56 am
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| I also had the pleasure of playing steel for Bobby back in the late 70's and found him to be a very nice person, and he never mentioned he was a steel player to me either. I would've loved to hear him play...by the way Bill Bailey won't you please come home! (I couldn't resist) |
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Bill Bailey
From:
Kingman, AZ
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Posted 8 Feb 2007 7:35 pm
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Leroy, It has been a while since I heard that, thanks,
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Clyde Mattocks
From:
Kinston, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 9 Feb 2007 11:06 am
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From '71 thru '73, I played in the house band at the Pork Palace
Opry House in Raleigh, N. C. We brought in a Nashville act a couple of times a month. Bobby G. was one of our favorites.
Such a nice , unnassuming guy and a wonderful singer and player. After he had done his "featured act" thing, he loved to
come back and sit in playing with the band. I played an oddball Day type setup and he handled it with ease. I got the
impression, he could have sat down at anone's steel and in a
minute or so, played it competently. |
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Clyde Mattocks
From:
Kinston, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 9 Feb 2007 1:16 pm
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| Oh, P.S. Egil, I have your "Steelig musikk" CD, nice work! |
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Egil Skjelnes
From:
Meland,Frekhaug
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Posted 12 Feb 2007 2:15 am Bobby G.Rice
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Hello
Many thanks for all the interesting comments about this artist.
What seems funny to me is that several of you have played with him,and he did not tell that he played steel! He seems to be interested in the steel,but for some reason don`t tell about his own time as a steeler!.What I hoped to hear more about,was the "good old days" when he was a steeler in what appears to have been a family band,maybe in the 60`s.Anyone that have seen him in this role?.
Thanks to all of you for your interesting inputs,and comments.Thanks.
Egil. |
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