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Topic: What's the worst tragedy to happen to your steel? |
Ray Montee
From:
Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 2 Oct 2008 10:32 am |
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I keep getting flashbacks about the young steel player that was rushing up the back steps into the Ryman for a Saturday night performance......when he tripped, falling and snapping off both necks of his double neck Rick. Can't recall who it was.
How terrible he must've felt.
Has anyone on the Forum suffered such an untimely disaster? I've been extremely forunate that no such fate has befallen me. |
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chris ivey
From:
california (deceased)
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Posted 2 Oct 2008 10:42 am
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not nearly so serious, but one day a million years ago my girlfriend dropped the vacuum tube (metal) on the front of my white sho-bud professional and put a good ding in the top. she was scared all day til i got home and told her not to worry about it!
the same steel fell off of a two foot stage once and did even less damage! |
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John Roche
From:
England
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Posted 2 Oct 2008 10:49 am
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| I once had a drunk throw a chair at someone else and it hit my new Sho-Bud putting a big dent in one of the legs, the club we were playing in paid for the damage. |
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Papa Joe Pollick
From:
Swanton, Ohio
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Posted 2 Oct 2008 10:56 am
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 The only disaster my Blanton ever faced was me tryin to play it.. |
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Ken Byng
From:
Southampton, England
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Posted 2 Oct 2008 11:17 am
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| John Roche wrote: |
| I once had a drunk throw a chair at someone else and it hit my new Sho-Bud putting a big dent in one of the legs, the club we were playing in paid for the damage. |
Remind me never to play there John  I take it that the drunk was Denis Cremin
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Ron Whitfield
From:
Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 2 Oct 2008 11:17 am
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| Selling a keeper is always a tragedy. |
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Tony Smart
From:
Harlow. Essex. England
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Posted 2 Oct 2008 11:26 am
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The worst tragedy was playing mine in the bath.
It ruined my bath..... |
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John Roche
From:
England
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Posted 2 Oct 2008 11:47 am
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Ken, The club is in Northampton town, a very respectable one at that but alas something went wrong that night and tempers flared, How is my old pal Denis?
Has Denis told you the story about when he turned his JCB digger upside down in a ditch, when his boss asked " is that your digger Denis " he replied "no mine don't have wheels on the roof" . |
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Charles Davidson
From:
Phenix City Alabama, USA
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Posted 2 Oct 2008 1:31 pm
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ME,DYKBC.
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Archie Nicol R.I.P.
From:
Ayrshire, Scotland
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Posted 2 Oct 2008 1:53 pm
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Micky Byrne's burnt Sho-Bud was a sad sight.
Happy ending, though:
pick here
Arch.
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 2 Oct 2008 2:01 pm
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| I had just gotten started playing a Miller S-10 when I lived in Milwaukee. Was playin' at a club on Wisconsin Avenue, owned by some bent-nose guys. They burnt the club down for the insurance moola. The guitar was not totaled, but the '64 Vibroverb was. I completely rebuilt the guitar, refinished, polished, the works. The day I set it back up, the repo guys came and took it. I'd had no ability to work with no instruments, so I had lapsed on the payments. Took me 3 years to get outa the hole and buy a new Shobud! |
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Stephen Gambrell
From:
Over there
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Posted 2 Oct 2008 2:07 pm
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| Me buyin' it. |
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Billy Tonnesen
From:
R.I.P., Buena Park, California
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Posted 2 Oct 2008 2:41 pm
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| This happened around 1960. I was playing with Johnny and Joanie Moseby at the Jubilee Ballroom in Baldwin Park Ca. (east of L.A.) every Friday & Saturday night with a 8-piece Western Swing Bsnd. I was playing a four neck "Wright Custom" with 9-pedals. On Friday night we left our instruments overnight for the Saturday dance. Well early one Saturday morning I got a call from Joanie that the Ballroom had burned down and everything was lost. Our guitar player, Fender's Bill Carson,got me a Fender-1000 from the factory within a week. I still have this guitar in the closet. I played this guitar pretty much thru the sixties and in the seventies bought a 2-necked Sierra from Blackie Taylor and still have it. I don't play anymore due to a bad back and eye problems. |
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Roy Ayres
From:
Riverview, Florida, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 2 Oct 2008 2:58 pm
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Ray,
That was Slim Idaho (AKA Dewey Adderhold) and I'm the one who told the story, as I was there and saw it happen. It was a metal Ricky double neck with Bakelite necks. I never felt so sorry for a musician; he actually cried.
Roy
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Ben Lawson
From:
Brooksville Florida
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Posted 2 Oct 2008 4:42 pm
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Back about '78 we were playing a club called Buffalo Bills in Indy. I got a call at about 5:00am that the place was on fire. I was told that the firemen were just about to turn the hoses onto the stage when one fireman, Gary Crawford, stopped them and grabbed my equipment and took it outside.
That was the new Emmons that Jimmy Crawford had built for me just month's earlier.
Gary and his crew saved pretty much everything.
The strings were fried and the amp was covered with black smoke residue but a clean up and restringing got it all working again. The under carriage of the steel was no longer silver but it had turned light brownish gold. Mike Cass fixed that for me about 20 years later.
The club reopened sometime later and I ended up back there working with Ron Mabry after Russ Wever left. |
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Ron Whitfield
From:
Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 2 Oct 2008 4:48 pm
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| And of course, before losing Tom Morrell, he lost his beautiful Bigsby to a fire. |
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Jody Cameron
From:
Angleton, TX,, USA
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Posted 2 Oct 2008 5:42 pm
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| One of my ex-wives pushed my Emmons down a flight of stairs...that's the day I left. jc |
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Mike Sigler
From:
Give Em A Try !
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Posted 2 Oct 2008 6:48 pm
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back in the old days, i played a square dance and a big 250 pound guy lost his balance and sit down on the front of my 8 pedal rods of my NEW Zb custom... and did not get up for about 2 min.... 
I was 16 years old. and just kept playing my break !
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Larry Lorows
From:
Zephyrhills,Florida, USA
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Posted 2 Oct 2008 7:01 pm
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My ex-wife stole five six string guitars and my steel guitar. It took me a year to get a guitar and a steel again. Her sister told me she met a guy on the internet and he came up and stayed with her for a weekend, and took my guitars back to Illinois, if I remember right. He was supposed to sell them and split the money with her. She never heard from him again. ha ha Larry
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Bo Borland
From:
South Jersey -
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Posted 2 Oct 2008 7:49 pm
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| a guitar player had just got a new wireless set up and thought that running around the club playing was cool.. til he hit a support column with the neck of his 72 Gibson 335... snapped the headstock off like a twig... I laughed for days... |
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John Bechtel
From:
Nashville, Tennessee, R.I.P.
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Posted 2 Oct 2008 10:24 pm
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I had a T-8 Custom that I bought in ’79, sold like a dummy in ’89 and luckily bought back in ’04, but; like a dummy again, sold again in ’06. I'm still kicking myself and I think it would probably like to do the same thing. The best sounding steel I've ever owned! I hope it has a good home now! I guess so, because; this fellow won't sell it back!
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Jack Stanton
From:
Somewhere in the swamps of Jersey
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Posted 3 Oct 2008 4:25 am
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Back in '81 I was in a road band. We traveled in an extended van with a box trailer for the equipment. About 60 miles outside of Rawlings, Wyoming, in the middle of the night a tractor trailer driver feel asleep and rear ended us. Pulverized the trailer and flipped the van three times.
While laying in a field waiting for the ambulance, someone brought over the body of what was left on my once beautiful, black '79 Emmons. The buttons for the tuning keys were gone, and there was major road rash to the top of the necks, but the undercarriage was intact. Wish I could have retrieved it- it would have made on hellava parts guitar! |
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Bryant Aycock
From:
Pikeville, North Carolina
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Posted 3 Oct 2008 4:52 am disaster
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Probably....me trying to play it!!!!
Bryant |
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Tony Farr
From:
Madison, Tennessee, USA (deceased)
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Posted 3 Oct 2008 5:37 am
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My Fender 1000 getting stolen at Panther Hall in Fort Worth, Tx, the same night that George Jones guitar got stolen. He finally got his back, I never have.  |
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c c johnson
From:
killeen,tx usa * R.I.P.
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Posted 3 Oct 2008 5:51 am
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| Herb Remington had just started building steels. I got me a new dbl8 fixed strg. Playing a gig at the plaza hotel in killeen I was carying my guitar down a ramp and it was wet from the rain .I slipped and fell forward and seeing that one of the legs was headed for my stomach I put the brunt of the fall on the guitar body. It split into making two guitars and I sold them getting more than my money back. cc |
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