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Topic: most famous bigsby |
Daniel McKee
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Corinth Mississippi
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Posted 19 Feb 2009 5:00 pm |
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| i know all bigsbys are worth a lot but whose is worth the most i know the speedy west one is probalbly worth a lot |
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Herb Steiner
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Briarcliff TX 78669, pop. 2,064
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Posted 19 Feb 2009 5:24 pm
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I would say there are five Bigsby guitars that have pre-eminence, and four or five others in contention.
The top 5 are Joaquin Murphey's console (or even more his original lap Bigsby), console recently sold; Speedy West's console, whereabouts unknown; Buddy Emmons console, believed to be in Canada; Bud Isaacs D-8, recently sold; and the guitar originally built for Frank Juricek, which became the guitar played Walter Haynes, Sonny Burnette, and others with Webb Pierce, owned by a player/collector.
The ones in contention, IMHO, are the guitars that were owned by Vance Terry, PeeWee Whitewing, Bob White, Noel Boggs, Ernie Ball, and Maurice Anderson. These because the players achieved notoriety, predominantly with these instruments. The whereabouts of all these guitars is known today.
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Son, we live in a world with walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with steel guitars. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinberg? |
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 20 Feb 2009 9:08 am
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| Herb, if it's not invading anyone's privacy, would you know the general whereabouts of Vance's guitar? |
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Herb Steiner
From:
Briarcliff TX 78669, pop. 2,064
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Posted 20 Feb 2009 9:15 am
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I know the instrument's whereabouts, but as a courtesy, I feel it's up to the owner to reveal himself if he so chooses.
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My rig: Infinity and Telonics.
Son, we live in a world with walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with steel guitars. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinberg? |
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 20 Feb 2009 10:44 am
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| That's fine. I knew both Vance and Bob White back in the day of Vance and Jimmy Rivers, and Bob when he was married to Jewel Faye Smith (before she became Sammi.) |
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Steve Alcott
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New York, New York, USA
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Posted 20 Feb 2009 12:57 pm
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| Maybe he's not not quite as famous as the others, but for my money, Tom Morrell ought to be in there, too. |
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Jussi Huhtakangas
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Helsinki, Finland
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Posted 20 Feb 2009 3:16 pm
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Definately yes, and I know where that guitar is  . But, Tom was not the original owner of that guitar, even he didn't know to whom it was originally built for. |
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Daniel McKee
From:
Corinth Mississippi
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Posted 1 Mar 2009 1:44 pm reply
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| another steel that should be mentioned is the mack thomas bigsby t10 it has to be the bigsby steel with the most pedals and the largest bigsby instrument |
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Bryan Bradfield
From:
Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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Posted 1 Mar 2009 8:55 pm
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| I'm looking at the rear jacket of Barbara Mandrells' biography, "Get To The Heart", and there is a photo of a young Barbara playing a quad-10 with 9 pedals. Is that not a Bigsby? |
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Bill Fisher
From:
Oklahoma, USA
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Posted 1 Mar 2009 9:44 pm
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| I believe that's a Wright Custom you are looking at. |
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Erik van Beek
From:
The Netherlands
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Herb Steiner
From:
Briarcliff TX 78669, pop. 2,064
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Posted 2 Mar 2009 7:45 am
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Correct, Jimmy Roy is the man who is playing the Frank Juricek guitar, later owned by Walter and others.
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My rig: Infinity and Telonics.
Son, we live in a world with walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with steel guitars. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinberg? |
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Jussi Huhtakangas
From:
Helsinki, Finland
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Posted 2 Mar 2009 9:54 am
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I'm going to be my usual wise@$$ again  and say that that Bigsby in the clip is not the Juricek/Haynes guitar but originally built for Darrell Johnson. Haynes/Juricek has pedals and necks by Shot Jackson, and yes, Jimmy has that one too.  |
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Herb Steiner
From:
Briarcliff TX 78669, pop. 2,064
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Posted 2 Mar 2009 12:20 pm
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Jussi, I again yield to your knowledge and wiseassdom! I knew JR had Juricek/Haynes.
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My rig: Infinity and Telonics.
Son, we live in a world with walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with steel guitars. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinberg? |
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