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Topic: Spot the steel player |
Alan Miller
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Posted 1 Oct 2008 3:31 pm |
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Can you spot the steel player in the crowd ?
I have had this album since 1965,it was a celibration of the Grand Ole Oprys 39th anneversary.
The two other pictures are from the following years album with all the cast. The last one is Red Sovine singing Giddyup go.
The steel player is the same on all three pictures.
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Danny Naccarato
From:
Burleson, Texas
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Posted 1 Oct 2008 3:46 pm
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| Looks like Pete Drake to me |
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Skip Edwards
From:
LA,CA
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Posted 1 Oct 2008 5:05 pm
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| yep...and dig that crazy pak-a-seat. |
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Ernest Cawby
From:
Lake City, Florida, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 1 Oct 2008 8:07 pm Hi
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HadI accepted his job offer Jan 1950 it could have been me. I left Shreveport in Jan 1950 and went back to Gospel music, and left his offer on the table.
What could have been we will never know. But what I went home for has lasted going on 59 years, not sorry at all.
ernie |
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Alan Miller
From:
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Posted 2 Oct 2008 12:59 am
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Yeah , the thing that strikes me is all the cables , boxes and generally everything laying all over the place and the musicians seem to have prominent places, bit different these days.
Who are the other band musicians in there ? Little Roy Wiggins is in there somewhere although hes not backing any of the songs he does a turn of his own with an Eddy Arnold medley, but I couldnt pick him out never having seen a picture of him. |
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 2 Oct 2008 7:39 am
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| Bashful Brother Oswald in the top pic? |
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 2 Oct 2008 8:19 am
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| Looks like Pete Drake to me as well, but I don't remember him using a steel that color. Looks like an old Echoplex on the floor near him. |
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chris ivey
From:
california (deceased)
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Posted 2 Oct 2008 10:33 am
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yeah..pete...he always looked a little elfish to me..i dig his stuff though..some people talk him down... but listen to nashville skyline and the tracy nelson country stuff!!
i can't imagine having to play regularly in a suit. i've had an occassional tux type gig, but living in sacramento...or nashville in the summer..that can kill you! |
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Alan Miller
From:
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Posted 2 Oct 2008 12:16 pm
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Its definitely Pete Drake, there is a reference to him on the album for him to do a solo spot but it wasn't put on the album.
I dont know why some people talk him down , maybe they just havn't listened to enough of what he did, and some times they like what they hear but dont realise its him.
He played some great steel on these two albums , only wish i knew how to get a sound file on here. |
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