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Jim Prater
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Watseka, Illinois, USA
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Posted 21 Feb 2007 7:18 pm |
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Hello everybody. Been viewing the forum for several years now and decided to do a post. Sure enjoy this medium. Play a Rains SD-10 with Nashville 112 & Hilton pedal. Play mostly in the Kankakke, IL area and this past winter in sunny and warm Mission, TX at a place called Pepe's on the River.
Proud to be a friend of Fred Justice, a great, great player from Globe, AZ. and also I am a fan of Roger Light and Darrell Cummings from IL, all three of which are Rains steel guitar players. |
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Stan Paxton
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1/2 & 1/2 Florida and Tenn, USA (old Missouri boy gone South)
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Posted 21 Feb 2007 7:27 pm
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Well, when it "Rains" in pours  couldn't resist that...welcome aboard. If you been hanging around a long time, you know what a bunch this is, and you couldn't be in better company......
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Mullen Lacquer SD 10, 3 & 5; Mullen Mica S 10 1/2 pad, 3 & 5; BJS Bars; LTD400, Nashville 112, DD-3, RV-3, Hilton VP . -- Gold Tone PBS sq neck; Wechter Scheerhorn sq neck. -- "Experience is the thing you have left when everything else is gone." -anon.- |
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ray qualls
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Baxter Springs, Kansas (deceased)
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Posted 21 Feb 2007 7:30 pm
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Jim, welcome to the Forum from another "Rains SD-10" owner. I know you'll enjoy it here and by the way, Fred was telling me about you the other day! Fred is a friend to everyone!  Again, welcome. Ray
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Ward Skinner
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Mission, TX * R.I.P.
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Posted 21 Feb 2007 9:17 pm
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| Hey Jim, are you still in Mission? If so, we'll have to meet. Pepe's is a great place to play, always enjoy it there. |
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Pat Richardson
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Paxton, Illinois, USA
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Posted 22 Feb 2007 12:53 am welcome to Illinois
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Jim Welcome to centeral Illinois! You are not far from me I live in Paxton about 50 miles or so. Just head down 24 west till you meet Route 45 or go a little further and tak I-57 nad get off at the 261 exit!
I play in a house band in Urbana Il. I am the guitar play and have a fairly good fella on steel. I just started to play a little on the side and am a year into it and am a work in progress.
Some time send me an email : pat_richardson64@yahoo.com If you wish you could be more than welcom to bring your rig and set in with us . We play mostly traditional country . A lot of Haggard , Bush , Price . Kind of like were almost the last of our kind to do that around here. I just wanted to say hello and welcome .
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Lee Baucum
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McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 22 Feb 2007 5:21 am
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Welcome aboard!
Let us know when you're going to be playing at Pepe's and Ward and I will go over and harass you!
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Lee, from South Texas - Down On The Rio Grande
There are only two options as I see it.
Either I'm right, or there is a sinister conspiracy to conceal the fact that I'm right.
Williams Keyless S-10, BMI S-10, Evans FET-500LV, Fender Steel King, 2 Roland Cube 80XL's,
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Fred Justice
From:
Mesa, Arizona
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Posted 22 Feb 2007 6:50 am Take A Chance
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Hey Jim Prater, welcome to this wonderful forum and its real good to see you on here.
Jim you really went out on a wire telling everyone that you know me no really, I place a high value your friendship Jim.
Roger Light is a forum member also and you'll see him post once in a while.
Jim when are you and Carol heading back to the frozen tundra?
we need to get together and jam before you leave the desert.
The truth of the matter is folks, Jim and I have known each other since way before I started playing at the steel guitar, somewhere around 38 or 39 years now. I used to come to where Jim and his band were playing and set in and sing with them. Man, those were the days at the Porky Barn bar!!!!
Jim I better shut up before I get us both in trouble pal, call me.
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Jerry Hayes
From:
Virginia Beach, Va.
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Posted 22 Feb 2007 8:26 am
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Hey Jim, did you ever run into a neighbor of mine while you were in Texas by the name of Jim Gardner (guitar & vocals)? Jim lives about a block and a half from me and goes down there every winter. I believe I've heard him mention Pepe's on the River...........JH in Va.
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Jim Prater
From:
Watseka, Illinois, USA
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Posted 22 Feb 2007 8:59 am Thanks for the welcome
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| Stan Paxton wrote: |
| Well, when it "Rains" in pours couldn't resist that...welcome aboard. If you been hanging around a long time, you know what a bunch this is, and you couldn't be in better company...... |
Thanks Stan, I will definately look you up when I get back in Illinois in May. I'm in AZ right now and it's just to cold to come back yet.
See Ya |
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Jim Prater
From:
Watseka, Illinois, USA
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Posted 22 Feb 2007 9:08 am Thanks for the welcome
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Thanks everyone for the welcome.
Sure seems like a bunch of nice guys.
I will reconsider my statement on Fred though(Ha Ha)
Thanks Lee for the welcome and as far as Pepe's, I've
was asked back this year but I made the wrong turn and wound up in AZ. Maybe next year and I will definately look you up. I did give you a call last winter, but from what I hear you are really busy. So maybe next time.
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Charles Davidson
From:
Phenix City Alabama, USA
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Posted 22 Feb 2007 3:19 pm
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| Welcome Jim,from Alabama,Know you will love it here.Bama Charlie. |
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Chuck Thompson
From:
Illinois, USA
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Posted 22 Feb 2007 5:20 pm
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| welcome jim from another from illimanois! |
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Fred Justice
From:
Mesa, Arizona
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Posted 23 Feb 2007 6:08 pm Land Of Lincoln
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Jim I think you'll find they are a lot of steel players and surfers on this Forum from the Land Of Lincoln, come on boys, let Jim know who you are. 
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Al Marcus
From:
Cedar Springs,MI USA (deceased)
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Posted 24 Feb 2007 5:55 pm
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Jim-Welcome to the Steel Guitar Forum. It's a nice place to be...al.
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Ricky Thibodeaux
From:
Dallas,Texas
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Posted 25 Feb 2007 7:01 am welcome
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| This is a great place. Like a 2nd home to me. I also have a Rains and live down the street from Gary Carpenter the maker of Rains. A really great guy and super player. Again welcome aboard.....Ricky |
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Dennis Schell
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Shingletown, Shasta county, Kalifornia
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Posted 25 Feb 2007 9:40 am
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Hi Jim!
I'm a newbee here too and think it's a great place to hang out! Lotsa interesting "browsing" to be found and a nice buncha guys....
Best,
Dennis
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Roger Light
From:
Sheldon, IL
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Posted 26 Feb 2007 6:48 am
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Hey Jim,
Great to see you've joined up! I'm tryin' to keep the steel seat warm for ya! It is such a great honor to get to play all summer long with a guy like Jim! He has taught me more the last 3 years that we have been pickin' together than I have learned on my own the last 20! Thanks Jimmy!
Better stay in AZ a little longer. The weather really stunk this past week-end. We even cancelled the Roberts, IL gig Sat night  See ya around Easter?
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Roger Light
From:
Sheldon, IL
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Posted 26 Feb 2007 6:50 am
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Fred, The Porky Barn is still open if you want to come for a visit  No live music anymore though! |
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Jim Prater
From:
Watseka, Illinois, USA
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Posted 8 Mar 2007 8:41 pm Thanks for the welcome - again
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Hey, this is one great forum. As one of my old standy bye lines used to be - "Where have you been all my life".
I packed up my "Rains" last night and went up to "Arizona Joe's" in Apache Junction, AZ and what a really good time. They thought I were a "star"
I'm sure it was the RAINS. A really good house band and believe it or not, the bass player's daughter was married to one of my old time friends' son from way back in IL. Small world. It was talent night and I played songs I must admit I had never heard before. But I met some to the greatest poeple on earth!!!. Country music is still alive, you just play it and stay true to your music. |
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