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Topic: Who's the steel player? |
Ray Montee
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Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 10 Nov 2014 8:08 pm |
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Just cruising thro' YOU TUBE and ran across an oldie of JIMMY DICKENS singing Sleepin' at the Foot of the Bed.
He had a steel player that does a really fine job on a Sho-Bud pedal steel........
He's tall with dark rimmed glasses, giving a kinda
Buddy Holly look.
Anybody know who he is? |
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Brett Day
From:
Pickens, SC
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Posted 10 Nov 2014 8:26 pm
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| Walter Haynes maybe. He was Little Jimmy's steel player at one time. He played steel with Little Jimmy until Buddy Emmons joined the band after filling in for Walter after Walter couldn't be at the show to play for Jimmy |
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Bobby Boggs
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Upstate SC.
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Posted 10 Nov 2014 9:21 pm
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My guess is Stu Basore. On what looks like a Fender 1000 made to look Sho~Budish. I think that's Maybe Howard White behind him? Not playing.
Here's the link. Maybe those older and wiser will know for sure. And yes Stu, or whomever played great especially for that time period.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDdKPkyCHAg
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 11 Nov 2014 10:19 am
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Agreed on all counts, Bobby. Polished frame Fender 1000 with Sho-Bud card symbols added for laughs. The way the steelers left foot is rolling, looks like maybe a Day setup. Is that what Stu used?
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Tommy White
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Nashville
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Posted 11 Nov 2014 11:25 am
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Yes, indeed Stu Basore on what I believe to have been Weldon Myrick's trade in to Sho-Bud. Shot Jackson always made sure any guitar that left his store/shop had his mark. Probably Sho-Bud pickups too.
That is Kitty Wells' band backing the Dickens. Paul Yandell on guitar, Odell Martin on bass and of course Stu on steel. That is Howard White in the back ground.
Odell Martin was a dear friend and important part of my learning theory, chord structure and music. I went to work with Donna Fargo (Happiest Girl in the Whole USA) in 1976 at the peak of her career. Odell was the guitarist/ music director. He was a brilliant and kind man. Ode spent countless hours tutoring this then 16 year old during my 3 year tenure with that great band. I'll always be thankful I had such a wonderful opportunity to hang with my ol' compadre Odell Martin.
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Tommy White
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Nashville
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Posted 11 Nov 2014 11:29 am
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| Almost forgot, yes, Stu, Weldon Myrick, John Hughey and Hal Rugg played the Day set up, as I still do today. |
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Dave Harmonson
From:
Seattle, Wa
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Posted 11 Nov 2014 11:56 am
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I'm guessing this is from the mid 60's. Looks like Stu is playing thru a Twin Reverb. Interesting Paul Yandel is playing thru what looks like a Standel but it's directly behind Odell and Odell is playing thru and amp behind Paul. Crossed guitar cords. Is that bad luck? 
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 11 Nov 2014 12:09 pm
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| Tommy White wrote: |
| Almost forgot, yes, Stu, Weldon Myrick, John Hughey and Hal Rugg played the Day set up, as I still do today. |
Yes. We all play the correct way (Day). 
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Duane Becker
From:
Elk,Wa 99009 USA
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Posted 11 Nov 2014 2:40 pm
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| Tommy, as long as you started your road bio, I think it may be interesting to all if you finished it here-dont mean to hijack the thread either. After Donna, who'd you play with. I remember some time around 1980 I seen you with the Whites on the Opry. Thanks |
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Craig Baker
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Eatonton, Georgia, USA - R.I.P.
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Posted 11 Nov 2014 2:51 pm
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Just got off the phone with Stu. . . Very nice man, as always. He filled me in on that Fender 1000. He confirmed that indeed it had been Weldon Myrick's, and the YouTube clip is from the movie "Second Fiddle", re: the Jean Shepard tune. If anybody knows where the guitar is, Stu would like to own it again. Finally, Stu is in his mid 70s and his health is not what it once was, and asked all to be in prayer for he and Marsha.
Tommy White, you really know your stuff! Didn't realize you had worked with Odell in Donna's show. Was that post Herby? What a talented musician Odell was. What a loss.
All the best,
Craig Baker 706-485-8792
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P.O. Box 3965
Eatonton, GA 31024
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Floyd Lowery
From:
Deland, Florida, USA
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Posted 12 Nov 2014 5:54 am
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In 1953 I had started attending the University of Ala. I walked all the way down town Tuscaloosa to see Jimmy Dickens at a movie theatre. He had Walter Haynes and Thumbs Carlisle playing in his band. I was absolutely amazed. I talked to Walter after the show and he was very nice. I knew at this time, I had a lot to learn on the steel.
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Billy Easton
From:
Nashville, TN USA
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Posted 12 Nov 2014 8:10 am
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I met Odell Martin in 1957 when he was playing lead guitar for Faron Young.....a very nice guy and a talented musician.
Billy Easton
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 12 Nov 2014 8:43 am
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Everything Tommy said is correct. I owned and played that very guitar for about 8 years!  Yes, the pickups were Sho~Bud, courtesy of Shot...hence that somewhat confusing decal. It was a 1958 Fender 1000, and I can easily identify it if I ever see it again.
Here's a cut that I did with that guitar while I owned it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtqT8-BxQfI |
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 12 Nov 2014 9:39 am
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| I met Odell about the same time Billy Easton did. Odell and Ben Keith were playing for The Young Sheriff as they were passing through northern Michigan. Terrific guys and players. |
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Tommy White
From:
Nashville
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Posted 12 Nov 2014 9:49 am
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Great country steel playing there Donny! Love the chromatic triplet trill at the end of your solo and you didn't even have chromatics! Thank you for confirming my post.
Duane,
My time with Donna Fargo overlapped other sessions, TV and artists jobs, including my tenure with the Whites beginning in January 1986, of which I still perform with several times a year.
Craig,
I followed Paul Franklin and Herby in the Donna Fargo job. I understand Herby was there maybe 6 or 8 months between Paul and I. Herby also acted as interim when I would be out doing something else. Herby was a great player, dear friend and I miss him.
Stu Basore , I hear the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame calling! |
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Herb Steiner
From:
Spicewood TX 78669
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Posted 12 Nov 2014 9:53 am
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| Donny Hinson wrote: |
Everything Tommy said is correct. I owned and played that very guitar for about 8 years! Yes, the pickups were Sho~Bud, courtesy of Shot...hence that somewhat confusing decal. It was a 1958 Fender 1000, and I can easily identify it if I ever see it again.
Here's a cut that I did with that guitar while I owned it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtqT8-BxQfI |
Donny, excellent picking there, boy! When did you cut that tune?
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Craig Baker
From:
Eatonton, Georgia, USA - R.I.P.
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Posted 13 Nov 2014 12:02 am
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Donny,
As the others have said. . . great playing. Might I guess a little Mooney "Above and Beyond" somewhere among your favorites?
Great job.
Craig
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robert kramer
From:
Nashville TN
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Posted 13 Nov 2014 9:20 am
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I'll never forget one day back home watching the Porter Wagoner show and seeing Stu Basore playing "Curtain Call" on C-6th on a black Emmons.
Here's a photo on the "Country Deputies" w/ Ben Keith - Roger Miller - Darrell McCall - Odell Martin
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Herb Steiner
From:
Spicewood TX 78669
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Posted 13 Nov 2014 9:24 am
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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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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 13 Nov 2014 8:41 pm
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| Craig Baker wrote: |
Might I guess a little Mooney "Above and Beyond" somewhere among your favorites?
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Guilty as charged! Ralph Mooney and and Stu Basore were probably the foremost influences in my playing. Stu asked me about that guitar a couple of years ago, and I related that I had sold it decades earlier (though, not that I had wanted to) and that I had no idea if it was still around or where it was. Stu was easily one of the nicest music people I'd ever met, and all those times I saw him play with Kitty Wells (and with Ray Price) still stand out in my memories. Of course, that old Fender also gave me my start on pedal guitar, so I guess it's kinda special to both of us. Somewhere around here, I have some pictures of the guitar as it was when I sold it, and if I can find one I'll post it here. |
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Craig Baker
From:
Eatonton, Georgia, USA - R.I.P.
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Posted 14 Nov 2014 3:59 pm
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Donny,
Since you're from WPOC country, you must have been a regular face at Sunset Park years ago. The main fiddle player, Sonny Miller, had a brother Johnny who played everything in sight. I recall having his Fender 1000 at my home for a week or two many many years ago, just to play around with it. I think it was one of the early ones with the chrome pedals, and the frame was unpainted aluminum. Could that have been the same guitar?
Sincerely,
Craig Baker 706-485-8792
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Craig Baker
From:
Eatonton, Georgia, USA - R.I.P.
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Posted 14 Nov 2014 4:03 pm
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duplicate post
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 17 Nov 2014 2:11 am
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Herb: That song was cut '68, as I recall. It was one of the sessions I did at the ITI studio in Hunt valley, MD, and the engineer was a young George Massenberg. He took particular pains to get the steel sound right, as far as the tone and reverb, and I believe George had actually designed that studio, himself. It was the first 16-track one in the area!
Craig: I suppose it's possible that it may have been the same guitar. One of the unique "identifiers" of the instrument was that some of the pedals had been drilled for rubber pads (emergency-brake pads...from Ford, I believe). Stu told me that Weldon had done that. Stu's name was still on the back of the guitar when I sold it, and my name was on a label, between the body and frame, on the underside. (I put it there when I refinished the underside of the body and frame.) The guitar also has 2 added (cable operated) knee levers, with a paddle at the end of each that had a rather unique shape. |
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