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Topic: Doug Seymour plays Blue Christmas On C6 |
Greg Cutshaw
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Corry, PA, USA
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Posted 26 Nov 2008 2:25 pm |
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Here's a smooth version of Blue Christmas played by Doug Seymour. Listen to the cool change at 1:44 into the song and all the transitional diminished riffs!
Blue Christmas
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Fred Shannon
From:
Rocking "S" Ranch, Comancheria, Texas, R.I.P.
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Posted 26 Nov 2008 3:21 pm
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Greg, luv it!!!....Doug came from the old 'swing' style and you can hear it in every lick. good listening and smooth work Uncle Doug.
phred
Greg thanks for the post. right time of the year too.
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Doug Seymour
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Jamestown NY USA (deceased)
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Posted 26 Nov 2008 3:45 pm Thanks A Lot!
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| Thanks guys! Some think I taught Bobbe to play? Not True! I just lit his fire when he was an early teen. I gave him a Keisel S 8 string lap & then when I got my first pedal (? a MultiKord?) I gave him my homemade triple 8, made with Epiphone parts. He did all his learning on his own!! and then in 1968 he was here for the Holidays and showed me all the 4 string grips that I've used on C6th ever since! I'd been hearing them on a tape of him ever since 1962, but never knew HT play that stuff! That summer he got me the cross over that's in my picture on the forum posts. (ShoBud Baldwin) That's when I realized that knee levers are really where it's at!! It had my first knee lever. Bobbe was there living with my Mom & Dad when I got my first lap steel in November of 1946 after a young guy I saw "live" lit my fire!! The only pedals then was Alvino Rey & Al Marcus!? |
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Joe Miraglia
From:
Jamestown N.Y.
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Posted 26 Nov 2008 4:37 pm
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| GTEAT JOB DOUG,I like it. Joe |
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Bill Hatcher
From:
Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 26 Nov 2008 5:38 pm
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Mighty Nice Doug!!!
The bass player don't get out much does he?? |
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Brad Malone
From:
Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 26 Nov 2008 6:17 pm Blue Christmas
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| Hey Doug, You said it all, I loved those great diminished chords and the nice swing style you used. Your single notes were tasty, melodic and added to the listening pleasure...Doug, thanks for the early Christmas present. |
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Doug Seymour
From:
Jamestown NY USA (deceased)
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Posted 26 Nov 2008 7:17 pm
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| That bass man is no longer with us. |
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Bill Hatcher
From:
Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 26 Nov 2008 8:30 pm
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| Doug Seymour wrote: |
| That bass man is no longer with us. |
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Ken Lang
From:
Simi Valley, Ca
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Posted 26 Nov 2008 8:35 pm
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Very nice Doug, as usual. It was nice talking to you at the jam in Oct, tho it was too short.
Ken |
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Ernie Pollock
From:
Mt Savage, Md USA
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Posted 27 Nov 2008 6:07 am wow!!
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Gee Doug, that was great, you know I love C6th or B6th or any six, including a six pack!! but you outdid yourself on that song. You should have taught me that when you visited me!! Wish we were not so far apart in miles!!
Your friend
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Tamara James
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Posted 27 Nov 2008 7:35 am Sweet
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Thank you for sharing. I never get tired of listening to this one. Very sweet. Bees would be jealous 'cause they never made something as sweet.
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Bobbe Seymour
From:
Hendersonville TN USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 27 Nov 2008 1:21 pm Thank you Greg Cutshaw for this thread,
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Doug lit my "Steel guitar fire" alright! Thank goodness! It started in 1946 and I'm still having fun! Many folks have led the way like they do for all of us.
Doug took me to see Jimmy Crawford "live" when I was 14, Jimmy was a terror that night wirh Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper! This inspired me so much that 15 years later I was working the road with Wilma Lee and Stoney. But not as wild playing as Jimmy did! 
Doug was a Jerry Byrd fan as we all were in these years, (early fifties). I also think we all still are Jerry's fans at heart, we'd better be! 
Doug always had a steel sitting around the house, this was hard to resist in my formitive years, so I didn't resist, (unless he caught me)
Doug was great inspiration to myself and many other players in the northeast U S, now as you can see, he is still doing what we loved most.
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Al Marcus
From:
Cedar Springs,MI USA (deceased)
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Posted 27 Nov 2008 6:41 pm
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Doug-See! Everyone likes your C6 stuff.
Doug and I have emailed a lot over the years. I told him that Tilley was taking Christmas songs besides the regular ones.
He sent over that song on C6 and I told him it was great. He is no slouch on C6. He knows his Music and uses four picks for those nice chords as I do many times.I am glad he got it on Tilley's Website.
Tilley just put my new one "Dont Blame Me" and "The Christmas Song" (the old Nat Cole hit of the 50's using 4 picks.
We had a nice Thanksgiving with the family here, and hope you all can say the same....al
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Doug Seymour
From:
Jamestown NY USA (deceased)
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Posted 27 Nov 2008 7:03 pm C6
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I'll never catch you Al, but I'll be 80 in February!
We still have to jam sometime if we could ever get together! We Live In Two Different Worlds! You're in MI & I'm over here in WNY getting the snow you guys don't keep!? Thing is Al was in Jamestown a short while as a youngster and he also played at the Swallows in Ashtabula OH, where I later played with a radio band for a year before I went to KMA & played on the radio there with Ike Everly as the resident thumb picker! No pedals back then? I think I got my MultiKord after hearing Bud Isaacs....the guy that started this whole E9th thingy! Herb Remington told me when I met him at Carl Dixon's Atlanta show (11 years ago come to think of it? with Greg Cutshaw!? WOW!)that if it hadn't been for Jerry Byrd everyone would still be playing A6th! The only tuning Herb said he'd ever used!! Now everyone has to play E9th?! How things change? Youngsters ask me where are the A & B pedals on the C6th? They aren't there to tell you the truth!? I mash 2 & 3 on my S10 keyless Excel (standard 5 & 6 C6th pedals) P7 is on my RKL! Works for me!? sort of. My steel was an E9th that I converted to C6 when I got it home....so I'm short a pedal or 2 for the std C6 set up? |
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Bernie Gonyea
From:
Sherman Tx. 75092 ,U.S.A. (deceased)
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Posted 27 Nov 2008 8:01 pm The Steel Wizzard On C- 6 th
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Doug : what a grand job you are doing on one of my favorite xmas melodies. Especially in the Cth Tuning; I love it, man. What do you think of the cross-over Baldwin , which Bobbe gave you, Doug.? Do you still own it? Mine sits in its case most of the time. Good to hear you play again..Bernie
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Joe Miraglia
From:
Jamestown N.Y.
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Posted 28 Nov 2008 12:49 pm
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If Al Marcus lived in Jamestown and with Doug living a mile down the road from me,do you think beween the two of then they could teach me how to play this thing. I have been trying for over 50 years now. Uncle Doug showed Bobbe how to play not me  Joe |
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Bill Duve
From:
Limestone .New York, USA
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Posted 2 Dec 2008 10:42 pm
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The last time I saw Doug (Last year) he carried my steel cause I couldnt and hes 10 yrs older than me. He started me on E9th and changed over my steel in a couple hours, Keep going Doug and gimme a call now and then..We gotta get together if the sun ever shines again,
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Jack Stanton
From:
Somewhere in the swamps of Jersey
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Posted 3 Dec 2008 4:35 am
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| Great stuff! Thanks, Doug & Gregg. |
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