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John Floyd
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Posted 3 Jan 2008 11:55 am |
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Anybody recognize these Nashville pickers?
There a world Class steeler to the left, but chose to leave him out of the pic, He knows who I am talking about and posts on this forum a lot.  |
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John Floyd
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Posted 3 Jan 2008 11:58 am Aw Shoot, Here's the World Class Steeler
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Anybody recognize this cutie?
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John Floyd
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Posted 3 Jan 2008 12:00 pm Or this Bass Player
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Tammy Wynette with a mustache
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John Floyd
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Posted 3 Jan 2008 12:02 pm And The Drummer
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I thinks I'm in trouble Now  |
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Richard Sevigny
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Salmon Arm, BC, Canada
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Posted 3 Jan 2008 1:13 pm What a drag!
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These gals need to shave their legs 
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ray qualls
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Baxter Springs, Kansas (deceased)
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Posted 3 Jan 2008 1:24 pm
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I bet you guys will really *****DRAG***** this out!
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Cal Sharp
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the farm in Kornfield Kounty, TN
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John Floyd
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Posted 3 Jan 2008 4:35 pm Cal's a Winner
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| Yep Thats Don, I had Pictures of Mae, But my ex destroyed them, said it was demeaning to women. No sense of Humor whatsoever. These were taken 73 - 74 in Merchants BTW Ex has been long gone. |
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Jack Harper
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Mississippi, USA
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Posted 3 Jan 2008 6:00 pm
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man;...just lately, i thought about broadway mae and that time frame on lower broadway when the music was real and so were the guy's and gal's that made that scene. everybody had a story and everybody would listen to it, at least once.
many a night ol' mae made her mark as she made her rounds and closed 'em down with the best of what she had, just to do it all over again when the sun goes down tommorrow. what a life, but she loved it.
somewhere i still have the 45 rpm that i can't remember who produced on her, for kixx. the buck i gave her for it was like worth a million and i still remember that ol' snagley grin.and then, the yodel.
merchants ain't quite the same, but then, neither is lower broad.
and walter haynes is playin' the hotel preston next week! imsgine............
ya'll have a happy new year, now, ya' heah'.
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Joe Casey
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Weeki Wachee .Springs FL (population.9)
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Posted 9 Jan 2008 12:29 pm
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JOHN just think,you dumped Mae for your X....I'll bet Mae would be looking real good about now,any regrets? :lol:Is the bass player still availible? Think harley would let her go?  |
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Frank Parish
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Nashville,Tn. USA
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Posted 12 Jan 2008 12:24 am
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| Broadway Mae is no longer with us fellas. John Shepherd brought her down to the street a few years ago to see everybody she could still remember. She'd been in a nursing home for several years and then he told me she'd passed on. The street has changed so much there's hardly anybody down there now that was there just ten years ago when I was a bar owner and picker down there. The clubs are a lot nicer and it's the busiest I ever saw. The change is really for the best and there's more steel players down there now than I ever saw before. I could play down there for months and nobody would come by to sit in and now they're all over the place. Just think a short month ago John Hughey was a regular down there! The change has been good to Broad Street. |
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John Floyd
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Posted 12 Jan 2008 5:50 am THANKS FOR THE UP DATE, FRANK
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Sorry to hear about Mae.
I think she liked the attention she got, even if she was laughed at. A lot of people got entertained by her and one time during convention week, thanks to the help of Don Maddox and His wife Connie at Deemans Den, got her all dressed up in an evening gown and took her to Printers Alley in A Limo to put on a show in the Western Room. Only nobody told the management or band! When they were asked "What they were doing?", The Bass Player told them "about 30 minutes, get your a**es down from there!". The DJ's were rolling on the floor, cracking up, but I imagine that they talked about Mae on the radio all over the country. I guess she did become a "Star" in some way! There was a low life that did become a star later on and he was hanging around Mae before he "made" it and bumming money off her and a couple of the guys in the band took him out behind Merchants in the Alley and did an attitude adjustment on him.
Some interesting times back then and they had to get better. The Union (Local 257) needs to get off their A** and keep those guys (pickers) from woking for less than scale. They haven't ever cared what happens on lower broad, and probably never will, given the current group they have in there now. Ain't nothing new about a club owner screwing pickers, always has and always will.
Down off my Soapbox now
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Joe Casey
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Posted 13 Jan 2008 1:07 pm
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| John Sheppard ,Talk about hanging in there.. |
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Scott Shipley
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The Ozark Mountains
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Posted 13 Jan 2008 5:08 pm
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That Grammer guitar sure is sexy though............  |
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Mike Jones
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Goodlettsville,TN,USA
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Posted 24 Jan 2008 7:04 pm
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Just when I thought that old dawg had went away, here she comes, barking louder than ever. Thanks, John for the memories. That was some good times. I remember the day the Merchants put up new drywall, Harley came in a cried because he had pills hidden in the walls and now they were covered up.
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John Floyd
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Posted 24 Jan 2008 7:19 pm GOTTA WATCH THEM OLE DAWGS
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Cookie
Betcha Harley's pills didn't go to waste, You don't know much about construction workers , do You?
Anyway, Dr. Snap and Consumers Drug Store had an unlimited supply back in those days.  |
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Mike Jones
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Goodlettsville,TN,USA
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Posted 25 Jan 2008 8:00 am
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I wonder where Bill Step is, he was a great singer.
John, knowing how the big the roaches were in that place I figured they got the pills. Some of those roach's wore overalls they were that big.
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John Floyd
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Posted 25 Jan 2008 8:11 am Yeah, But Them Roaches Could Pick!
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| Bill Stepp is still around Nashville, I've been told.Guy knew more songs off the top of his head than anybody I ever saw. He started singing songs Faron had recorded one night and went thru every one Faron had recorded, Then He called Faron up to sit in. Faron said "Hell, I don't know some of those sob's myself. It Was another rare Faron Moment. |
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Richard Bass
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Sabang Beach, Philippines
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Posted 25 Jan 2008 9:46 pm
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Cookie, Bills still around, I run into him 2-3 times a year. Boy do I remember those days, mostly remember anyways.
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Cal Sharp
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the farm in Kornfield Kounty, TN
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Miguel e Smith
From:
Phoenix, AZ
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Posted 30 Jan 2008 7:03 pm
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OMG...haven't even seen pics of Don or Harley in decades. Who is the drag queen impersonating Mae? Geeezzzz...D Den...and to think it's a 5-star restaurant now with valet parking.
Cookie, it was always funny to me that where the Den was located is where a drug store once was. If you look at the building to this day there is still a popout on the exterior up around the 2nd floor level..."DRUGS". How appropriate that was back in the day huh? : )
I talked to Don a few times not long before he passed but does anyone know where Harley Alsup is?
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Cal Sharp
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the farm in Kornfield Kounty, TN
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John Floyd
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Posted 31 Jan 2008 2:05 am Harley now Lives in ROARING SPRINGS ,Tx
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| an appropriate name for Harley's Hometown. |
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Mike Jones
From:
Goodlettsville,TN,USA
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Posted 31 Jan 2008 12:01 pm
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Miguel,
Last I heard Harley was in Florida somewhere. I think George Owens might have a an address on him.
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John Floyd
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Posted 31 Jan 2008 12:14 pm ROARING SPRINGS TEXAS
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Whats the matter Cookie, Aren't you talking to me anymore, I do Have Other Pictures. 
Harley Retired, Divorced and Moved From Tennessee near Chattanooga. To Texas, His Original Home. He hasn't lived in Florida in a long time.
PO BOX 276 might possibly be the last PO box Number in Roaring Springs. Harley has email now,I was shocked! and he had just bought a new Electric Typewriter  If you or Miguel(who I used to know as Mike) want the address Send me a message.
PO BOX 276
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