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Ray Kedge
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Posted 15 Jan 2009 1:22 pm |
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Hi Roger,
Do you remember this,Wembley the year Buddy played with Tompall Glaser,He couldn't get his head around all the attention he was getting from the British players all wanting his autograph.
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Roger Rettig
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Posted 15 Jan 2009 6:40 pm
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Hey, Ray...
I'd forgotten this particular moment, but I do remember Gerry Hogan and I being there (I've forgotten who I was playing with that year) and, of course, Buddy's appearance.
One thing that still stands out to me was a moment during the show when the Big 'E' was sustaining a chord with his bar-hand, yet managed to bent over to his right to adjust something on the floor - needless to say, he maintained a perfectly steady and in-tune vibrato all the while!
See the camera? I have a shot somewhere of Emmons behind the venue and crossing the car-park carrying his steel.
Wait - are you sure HE wasn't asking ME for my autograph?  
Thanks for the memory! Did you take the picture? There certainly was quite a lot of me in those days.....
(Was this 1981?)
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Roger Rettig: Emmons D10, B-bender Teles and Martins - and, at last, a Gibson Super 400!
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Ray Kedge
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Posted 16 Jan 2009 2:52 am Roger Rettig do you remember this?
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Hi Roger,
Yeah I did take the picture,and I still have Buddy's autograph in a scrapbook somewhere along with Ralph Mooney's.
They are momments you just don't forget,hope that bought back a little bit of history.
Cheers Ray |
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Derrick Frank
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Posted 16 Jan 2009 4:34 am Roger Rettig do you remember this?
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Here's an old one, mid 80s I think,Wembley Festival.
Left to right, Albert Lee, Derek Thurlby,Jerry Hogan,Buddy Emmons,Barry Smith And myself Slim.
Found it in the closet, hidden away for a long time.
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Ray Kedge
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Middlesex, England
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Posted 16 Jan 2009 5:32 am Roger Rettig do you remember this?
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Slimbo,
Must have been the same gig Buddy's got the same shirt on.I just remember everybody being there and that's just confirmed it.
Ray |
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Ray Kedge
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Middlesex, England
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Posted 16 Jan 2009 5:47 am Roger Rettig do you remember this?
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I just found this, must be close to the pic you took Ilike the Country Club sticker on the front and I found the autograph ,It's just made a very ordinary day special!!!
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Dave Hepworth
From:
West Yorkshire, UK
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Posted 16 Jan 2009 5:52 am From Dave Hepworth
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Ray,
Check Your personal E mail. |
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Ray Kedge
From:
Middlesex, England
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Posted 16 Jan 2009 6:00 am Roger Rettig do you remember this?
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Look what happens when you start,this is the same picture I'm sure.Just found a whole shed load of old pictures from back then of all the guitars Iv'e had and bands from that time.
Just one more from that Wembley show
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Roger Rettig
From:
Naples, FL
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Posted 16 Jan 2009 6:36 am
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Maybe we should rethink the old 'never carry a steel by the end-plates' maxim.
Ray: Methinks you'd have got far more 'views' of this thread if you'd put Buddy Emmons' name in the title instead of mine. Of course, I couldn't swear to that - it's just a theory... 
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Alan Brookes
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Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 16 Jan 2009 7:06 am
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| Maybe we should rethink the old 'never carry a steel by the end-plates' maxim. |
How else would you carry it ? Some PSGs have handles built into the endplates for that very purpose. |
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Ray Kedge
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Posted 16 Jan 2009 7:39 am Roger Rettig do you remember this?
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If it's good enough for him to carry it like that,but that's how Iv'e always carried my steels.
Maybe we would have got a few more views if Buddy had been in the title but it's been great to remember special times that we won't see again.If anybody has old photo's like these get them on there guys let see them.
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Roger Rettig
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Naples, FL
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Posted 16 Jan 2009 7:44 am
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Guys,
I was always told (can't remember who - maybe it's an atavistic instinct that I was born with ) that it put unnecessary strain on the guitar's body, and that fingermarks on the end-plates would eventually harm the aluminium. I lift my guitars by the front and rear aprons.
I wasn't being deadly serious, by the way, but I bet I'm not on my own on this.....
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Roger Rettig: Emmons D10, B-bender Teles and Martins - and, at last, a Gibson Super 400!
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John Roche
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Posted 16 Jan 2009 1:01 pm
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| as I am in Goa I can't lay my hands on the photos taken on that day, but I had the pleasure of Buddy asking me to look after his steel while he went to get paid from Mervin Conn, somehow he did..also I have Buddy's autograph along with Lloyd's / Haggard and Norm's all on one bit of paper... priceless |
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John Roche
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Don Brown, Sr.
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New Jersey
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Posted 16 Jan 2009 3:12 pm
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Roger, my wife always carried mine by the front & rear apron as well..
I broke her in right!  Don |
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Roger Rettig
From:
Naples, FL
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Posted 16 Jan 2009 3:23 pm
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Thanks, Don - I thought I was going crazy! It's the first thing I tell anyone - roadies, etc - who's likely to handle my guitar.
Now these pics of Buddy are out here, we'll all be corroding the end-plates, I suppose...
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Roger Rettig: Emmons D10, B-bender Teles and Martins - and, at last, a Gibson Super 400!
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Brint Hannay
From:
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Posted 16 Jan 2009 4:09 pm
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Roger, Bobbe Seymour in a recent "Bobbe's Tips" or "Tech Tips" spoke of the threat to the aluminum endplates from fingerprints. I had never heard of it before! And I've occasionally lifted my steel by the ends. Oops!
But if I have to carry my steel from one place to another I generally pick it up by the legs and turn it upside down, as if I were going to put it in the case.
My steels, with only one exception, have been lacquer finish models. I suspect others with lacquer guitars may, like me, be less likely to lift a steel by the front and back aprons. It actually has never really occurred to me! I try to keep that front apron untouched by anything, including hands, as much as humanly possible. |
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Ken Byng
From:
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Posted 17 Jan 2009 7:46 am
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Some great shots and memories guys. I first saw Buddy at Portsmouth where there was a big country music festival taking place on an old airfield. The organiser lost his shirt and house, but we got to see Buddy right at the top of his game.
Roger - you did a great impression of an anorak!!
A lot of people have slammed Mervyn Conn over the years, but his Wembly Festivals were outstandingly professional.
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Roger Rettig
From:
Naples, FL
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Posted 17 Jan 2009 8:11 am
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Right, Ken - you can see I was once a bus-spotter!!!!!
Oh, to see ourselves as others see us - that's a sobering photograph.....
Good old Mervyn, eh? One thing about him - everyone I know has a 'Mervyn Conn story'! All I ever got out of him was a lot of decent work, including several years of good pay on his 'Patsy Cline - A Musical Tribute' from '93 to '98. I'll settle for thinking of him as a creative business man; certainly a professional!
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Roger Rettig: Emmons D10, B-bender Teles and Martins - and, at last, a Gibson Super 400!
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