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Topic: Steel Guitarist Rob Flint earns his pay, |
Wayne Quinn
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Cape Breton.NovaScotia
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Posted 8 May 2013 12:55 pm |
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Went to see Allan Jackson last night.one of the best shows i have seen in a lot of years,Allan was awesome with the fans.they loved him. never got to meet Rob Flint . wish i had he's a very talented guy .as well as [Steel ] he played [Dobro]. and [slide guitar] and was awesome on them all. the whole band were great.as was his camera men sound guys and lights . cant say enough about them all. in my book well worth the bucks. i couldn't really see what Rob played through might have been a Milkman amp. i was in the upper bowl. but his Derby sounded real nice. and if you ever get a chance to see them on stage in my opinion don't miss em.  |
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Brett Day
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Pickens, SC
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Posted 8 May 2013 1:21 pm
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| Robbie's been with Alan since his first video "Blue Blooded Woman" came out in 1989. He's never left Alan's band, The Strayhorns, and in 2007, when Rodney Atkins did his song "These Are My People" on the CMA Awards, Robbie was the fill-in steel player, before Dan Galysh joined Rodney's band. Robbie's now heard on Alan's recent records, in addition to Paul Franklin on steel |
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Roger Rettig
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Naples, FL
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Posted 8 May 2013 4:05 pm
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I've often thought that Robbie must be an excellent player if he's having to replicate Paul Franklin's studio work with AJ when the show is on the road. No small task, I'm sure.
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Ron Page
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Penn Yan, NY USA
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Posted 9 May 2013 8:37 am
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Saw Robbie with Alan years ago here in Cincinnati. I remember considering going to the show. My wife pointed to our son and said, "That's his birthday". I looked at him and said,what else, "Happy Birthday".
Robbie played the hell out of the Derby with bright white sneakers working the pedals. 
Can we get a "Like" button for Brett's informative post?
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Wayne Quinn
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Cape Breton.NovaScotia
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Posted 9 May 2013 6:16 pm
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Yes Ron; Brett has a wealth of information on the who's who of the steel players world. and Roger your right on that one . and in my opinion Robbie gets her done real pretty.. seems to be a very laid back guy.  |
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Bent Romnes
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London,Ontario, Canada
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Posted 10 May 2013 12:07 pm
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| Brett Day wrote: |
| Robbie's been with Alan since his first video "Blue Blooded Woman" came out in 1989. He's never left Alan's band, The Strayhorns, and in 2007, when Rodney Atkins did his song "These Are My People" on the CMA Awards, Robbie was the fill-in steel player, before Dan Galysh joined Rodney's band. Robbie's now heard on Alan's recent records, in addition to Paul Franklin on steel |
Thanks for all the info on that one, Brett. You are amazing with all the information that you log and give out to all of us. I just wanted to commend you for that.
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Brett Day
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Pickens, SC
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Posted 10 May 2013 1:34 pm
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W. C. Edgar
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Iowa City Iowa, Madison CT, Nashville, Austin, Phoenix, Nashville
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Posted 12 May 2013 8:15 pm
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In early 1989 Alan was using Robbie Flint and Donnie LeValley was filling in when Robbie wasn't there. I got a call from Donnie asking me if I'd like to go out on a three week Canadian run with Alan because Robbie was in Virginia maybe snowed in or something. Donnie got a call to go out with Paul Overstreet and I went with Alan. We played a bunch of places in the Toronto area for a couple weeks and then up to the Kingston area for a week. When we came back I went to work at Opryland USA on The Country Music USA Show for two years.
WC Edgar
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Daniel Policarpo
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Posted 13 May 2013 3:56 am
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Holy crap, Brett. We need to download your brain into a Steeler's Encyclopedia.
That Opryland/Country Music show must have been a hell of a gig, W.C.
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W. C. Edgar
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Iowa City Iowa, Madison CT, Nashville, Austin, Phoenix, Nashville
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Posted 13 May 2013 5:49 am
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Dan, it was the best show in the park all the years the park was open which was something like 1973 till sometime in the late 90's I think. We had Chely Wright & Ken Mellons on our show. It was three shows 5 days a week and 4 shows 1 day a week and got really boring after the first week. It was a 70 minute show and there were 55 songs. Really fast paced. One day I looked in the audience and there sat Jimmy Crawford & John Hughey. Jimmy had been talking to Joe Jerrel's in the head office about subbing on the show when someone was gone and they'd came to see the show. It paid right about $359 after taxes per week. Our guitar player on the show the first year was Bobby Whitten from Mel Tillis's band. He'd played for Jack Greene back when Jack had the big number one with 'Statue Of A Fool'. He could play 64th notes faster than Leon Rhoads or so it seemed at the time. The second year Dan Kelly played fiddle and mandolin and also played for Roy Acuff. He would leave the show early on Fri, Sat, Sun afternoon and walk over to the Opryhouse to play the Opry with Roy after our show. This was a really cool time to be living in Nashville and I learned lots from it.
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First owner of Steelseat.com
1980 Sho-Bud Pro II & 1977 Sho-Bud Pro l
Lawrence 610 Pickups
1979 Peavey LTD
1980 Peavey Nashville 400
Goodrich L-120
Toured with Tim McGraw, Alan Jackson, Ty England & more |
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