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Jack Smith
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Phoenix, AZ
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Posted 20 Feb 2009 10:40 am |
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| I wanted to let all my forum friends know that all is well and that I live in Phoenix now. Why is a long story but mostly hinges around mine and my wife's business. Check it out www.healingwatersaz.com. We have been quite successful since moving to Phoenix a couple of years ago. I was so saddened by the loss of so many of our friends. I will miss them deeply. I promise not to go MIA again and will check in from time to time. |
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Michael Douchette
From:
Gallatin, TN (deceased)
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Freddie Wooton
From:
London, ky
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Posted 20 Feb 2009 10:28 pm
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| Thank you Michael, I really enjoyed that so much.Manny thanks,Freddie WOOTON |
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John McGlothlin
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Posted 21 Feb 2009 9:41 am
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| I remember watching the Happy Goodmans on TV every Sunday morning back in the early seventies and then I got a chance to see them in person at the Brushfork National Guard Armory close to Bluefield West Virginia. I remember when Howard was introducing the musicians and he said that the man on the steel guitar was his son-in-law but I never remembered your name until I was looking at a list of the band members for the Goodman's back in the seventies. Jack, it was your style of steel playing with the palm blocking that drew my interest in pedal steel guitar. |
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Jack Smith
From:
Phoenix, AZ
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Posted 21 Feb 2009 10:01 am
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| Wow, thanks Mike. I don't think that I've heard that since then. I was 16 years old and didn't have a trouble in the world. I was listening and memories went crazy. It's hard to believe they're all gone. It It certainly was an honor to be a part of that, the greatest time in southern gospel music. |
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Paul Norman
From:
Washington, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 21 Feb 2009 10:07 am
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When I was a young boy about 15 yrs old there was a
church near by that had a 1949 Cadillac with 2 outdoor big speakers on top and a record player inside playing The Happy Goodman's. These are
78 RPM records and a 6 volt car system.
I do not know what the record player looked like.
We would run down the road as they passed slowly
playing that music loud. It was so beautiful. |
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Fred Justice
From:
Mesa, Arizona
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Posted 21 Feb 2009 10:22 am
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Jack I had no idea you lived in Arizona.
I have respected you and your playing for years
If you ever get up to Globe give me a call.
928-425-9485
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Darvin Willhoite
From:
Roxton, Tx. USA
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Posted 22 Feb 2009 5:38 pm
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It was good to hear from you Jack.
Boy that video brought back a lot of memories for me too. Every time the Goodmans came to Tulsa in the late 60's and 70's, I was there. Jack you were one of the reason's I got hooked on this crazy instrument.
I used to love to hear those guitar players too, Duane Friend, Duke Dumas, and Ernie Maxwell. Probably my favorite guitar player from that time, was Paul Delatore (sp) with the Galileans. He was probably the first player I ever heard use an Echoplex, and I had to have me one of them, as well as a Mosrite guitar. That was a long time ago.
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Darvin Willhoite
MSA Millennium, Legend, and Studio Pro, Reese's restored Universal Direction guitar, a restored MSA Classic SS, several amps, new and old, and a Kemper Powerhead that I am really liking. Also a Zum D10, a Mullen RP, and a restored Rose S10, named the "Blue Bird". Also, I have acquired and restored the plexiglass D10 MSA Classic that was built as a demo in the early '70s. I also have a '74 lacquer P/P, with wood necks, and a showroom condition Sho-Bud Super Pro. |
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Darvin Willhoite
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Roxton, Tx. USA
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Posted 22 Feb 2009 5:39 pm
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OOPS, double post.
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Darvin Willhoite
MSA Millennium, Legend, and Studio Pro, Reese's restored Universal Direction guitar, a restored MSA Classic SS, several amps, new and old, and a Kemper Powerhead that I am really liking. Also a Zum D10, a Mullen RP, and a restored Rose S10, named the "Blue Bird". Also, I have acquired and restored the plexiglass D10 MSA Classic that was built as a demo in the early '70s. I also have a '74 lacquer P/P, with wood necks, and a showroom condition Sho-Bud Super Pro. |
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Cal Sharp
From:
the farm in Kornfield Kounty, TN
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Posted 22 Feb 2009 6:30 pm
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Good to know you're doing OK, Jack. You might remember a gig at Jones's Colmnsneil park with Paycheck, Jones, Dickens and Faron (w/me) on the bill. Quite a blast. This is you, right? (Sorry I didn't get you in the frame. Musta spent too much time on Paycheck's bus.)
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Bill Bailey
From:
Kingman, AZ
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Posted 22 Feb 2009 8:21 pm Jack Smith
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Jack,
It is good to know you are here in good old Arizona. I hope you do good with your business ventures. I haven't contacted you for a while, so it is good to hear from you. I still remember your great playing with Johnny Paycheck at the Shy Clown Casino in Sparks Nevada, you shined on steel and sang great harmony as well. I still have the CD of you and Connie Smith, "Live in Branson"Great playing. Take care Jack.
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Kingman Arizona
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Nick Reed
From:
Russellville, KY USA
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Posted 22 Feb 2009 9:03 pm
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Jack,
Was that a Sho-Bud you were playing with the Goodman's ? |
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Jack Smith
From:
Phoenix, AZ
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Posted 23 Feb 2009 9:30 am
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| Thanks guys for the nice words. Paul, Howard would talk about the early days before Vestal, Sam & Rusty when the Goodmans consisted of he and his older sisters Gussie, Stella and Eloise. The only means of promotion was driving around with the speakers blaring in order to get people to the tent revival they were preaching and singing. Cal, I do remember that concert. That was close to the end of my Paycheck days. A little too rough for me but man what a great musical time. Paul and Roy Justice of fiddles. Country music like it was supposed to be. Nick, When I went with the Goodmans I played a ZB and Shot came to the "All Night Singin" in Nashville and loved the Goodmans so much that he wanted me to play a Sho-Bud. Obviously I was honored to do so. The one he made was purple, the Goodman color, and it wasn't until I went with Bill Anderson in 74 that I changed to Emmons. |
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