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Topic: Lloyd Green's SHo-Bud on Display |
Walter Stettner
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Vienna, Austria
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Ricky Davis
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Bertram, Texas USA
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Walter Stettner
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Vienna, Austria
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Posted 31 Jan 2016 12:09 pm |
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Hi Ricky,
Thanks for all the work you are doing - what a beauty this is!
Best Regards, Walter
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Ricky Davis
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Bertram, Texas USA
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Posted 31 Jan 2016 6:49 pm
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Thanks Walter. Here's some more shots of it in the Museum; waiting for the visitors..ha.
Here's a Quote from Lloyd Green to me, when we delivered it to him:
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| "Hi Ricky. Yeah, the Lightning Bolt is one sweet, beautiful sounding and now GREAT LOOKING steel. It does everything you said it would and that means you brought a pretty good looking corpse back to life and beauty! Harry Jackson, who actually built this steel came by to see it and was really awed by the James Morehead parts and your reconstruction job. He admitted that he could never have built parts that perfect or beautiful in the era when he built it, 1966." |
Ricky
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Ricky Davis
Email Ricky: sshawaiian2362@gmail.com |
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chris ivey
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california (deceased)
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Posted 31 Jan 2016 9:02 pm
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ricky, i hope they gave you fixer-upperer credit
on the display. |
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Ricky Davis
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Bertram, Texas USA
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Posted 31 Jan 2016 9:38 pm
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Hey remember chris; the mechanics never get the credit when a car wins...just the driver and the owner...ha..and it's ok by me bro; because it's not about how and why the car won; but just that it won....and I'm into that.
Ricky
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Jim Smith
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Midlothian, TX, USA
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Posted 31 Jan 2016 9:41 pm Re: Lloyd Green's SHo-Bud on Display
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I'm confused, that YouTube link is from last February. Wasn't this guitar on display back then? Has the guitar been rebuilt again and is on display again? |
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Dan Robinson
From:
Colorado, USA
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Posted 31 Jan 2016 10:19 pm
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Hey remember chris; the mechanics never get the credit when a car wins...just the driver and the owner...ha..and it's ok by me bro; because it's not about how and why the car won; but just that it won....and I'm into that.
Ricky |
Most folks don't know, but some of us do, and to us, it makes a difference. Beautiful work. I don't think James has seen this, but I'll let him know for sure. |
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Bob Muller
From:
Oregon, USA
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Posted 31 Jan 2016 11:34 pm
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Great work James, and Ricky this is truly a job to be proud of!!  |
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Ricky Davis
From:
Bertram, Texas USA
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Posted 1 Feb 2016 11:54 am
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Yes Jim you are right. This is a year later; promoting the same exhibit. Nothing new the second year around. I missed it all cause I was laying in a hospital with a brain injury; so I'm doing my owed promotion NOW..ah..ha.
Ricky
P.S. Thanks Dan and Bob for the very kind words for both me and James...
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Edward Rhea
From:
Medford Oklahoma, USA
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Posted 1 Feb 2016 5:01 pm
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| Beautiful job Ricky&James!! If it sounds and plays half as nice as the Sho~Bud you guys did for me, Lloyds doin backflips!? |
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J R Rose
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Keota, Oklahoma, USA
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Posted 1 Feb 2016 6:13 pm
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Thanks Ricky for your efforts and as well for James. It is a thing of beauty. We pray your day will come. I hope your health and recovery is doing good as well for James. J.R. Rose
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NOTHING..Sold it all. J.R. Rose |
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Ricky Davis
From:
Bertram, Texas USA
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Posted 1 Feb 2016 9:17 pm
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Thanks Eddie and JR for the supporting words.
I hope James is doing better. I'm doing OK; with very small progression in healing, as a brain injury is for a lifetime unfortunately, but My take is I get to LEARN a whole new Ricky starting at age 53....yeeehaaa. So Life GOES ON!!
Ricky
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Email Ricky: sshawaiian2362@gmail.com |
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Jim Smith
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Midlothian, TX, USA
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Posted 1 Feb 2016 10:04 pm
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Yes Jim you are right. This is a year later; promoting the same exhibit. Nothing new the second year around. I missed it all cause I was laying in a hospital with a brain injury; so I'm doing my owed promotion NOW..ah..ha.
Ricky
P.S. Thanks Dan and Bob for the very kind words for both me and James... |
Thanks Ricky! I missed it the first time as well. I was on a couple escorted bus tours that stopped there, but I ended up in the hospital with congestive heart failure before we got there, and had to leave the tour and go back home. |
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Ricky Davis
From:
Bertram, Texas USA
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Posted 2 Feb 2016 10:05 am
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OH Jim; I'm so sorry about your bump in the road. I hope your heart is doing OK now, as I'm sure it is because every time I heard you play; I always heard one of the strongest hearts for music ever....bless you.
Ricky
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Jim Smith
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Midlothian, TX, USA
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Posted 2 Feb 2016 10:17 pm
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OH Jim; I'm so sorry about your bump in the road. I hope your heart is doing OK now, as I'm sure it is because every time I heard you play; I always heard one of the strongest hearts for music ever....bless you.
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Wow, thanks Ricky! I'm on some new meds, my second ablation, and an upgraded pacemaker, and am doing much better. I hope you're doing better as well! |
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Damir Besic
From:
Nashville,TN.
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Roger Crawford
From:
Griffin, GA USA
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Posted 3 Feb 2016 6:51 pm
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| Ricky, what's the story behind the first three pedals being narrower than the others? |
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Ricky Davis
From:
Bertram, Texas USA
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Posted 3 Feb 2016 9:45 pm
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Damir; don't know what "Boat Anchor" means???? if you mean it's a heavy guitar like a boat anchor; this one actually isn't as heavy as most fingertips. If you mean it's only good for being a boat anchor...I say: "incorrect"..ha.
Roger; because of the original metal bracket in there underneath that most fingertips had where you pull the crossbars; the first 3 pull positions were closer together than the others; mainly because the perms and fingertips came with 9 pedals. So many folks cut the width of the first three peds and some even cut just some bottom corners....all mainly to rock foot back and forth between first three pedals more easily.
Ricky
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Damir Besic
From:
Nashville,TN.
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Posted 3 Feb 2016 10:05 pm
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Ricky, I was being sarcastic, few months ago I was selling a beautiful Sho~Bud fingertip, and some forum members called it a "boat anchor" ... I was looking at this gorgeous guitar, and "boat anchor" comment came to mind ha ... it is, of course, a ridiculous statement ...
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Charlie McDonald
From:
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Posted 4 Feb 2016 4:47 am
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That is a beautiful guitar, Ricky.
You didn't ask... but there's a compelling amount of research that indicates that the brain changes and heals not only with plasticity
but also elasticity, and I concur. It doesn't snap back like rubber band; it happens slowly and unconsciously.
Someone who can do that kind of pedal steel work is intelligent, and those brains and faith can bring things back.
Older research, ancient observations, say that we become more who we are as we go along.
Learning the new Ricky would thus be remembering the old one, with capabilities that will return.
Please pardon my presumptive interest and unsolicited comments. Back to the guitar, a beauty.
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Alexander Rehfeld
From:
Hamburg, Germany
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Posted 4 Feb 2016 5:27 am
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I've been standing in front of this steel for about an hour while I was in Nashville last March. It was kind of an unbelievable spiritual moment to me, like watching Micheangelo's David or an Egyptian Temple. The sound of this very steel played by Lloyd has changed my life.
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Ricky Davis
From:
Bertram, Texas USA
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Posted 4 Feb 2016 10:31 am
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Thank you Charlie for the concern and very supportive words and that certainly is my belief and ongoing process.
Damir; no worries, I can dig.
Alexander that is so great to hear; as you share that same kind of passion that this Steel and that player has been and has done for, a countless amount of folks.
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Ricky Davis
Email Ricky: sshawaiian2362@gmail.com |
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Brett Day
From:
Pickens, SC
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Posted 4 Feb 2016 12:01 pm
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| This Sho-Bud steel is a legendary steel because it belongs to a steel legend, Lloyd Green. I met Lloyd in 2003 at the ISGC in St Louis, and to this day, he is one of my favorite players. I love that Sho-Bud! |
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Dan Robinson
From:
Colorado, USA
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Posted 5 Feb 2016 10:54 pm
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| Damir Besic wrote: |
| Ricky, I was being sarcastic, few months ago I was selling a beautiful Sho~Bud fingertip, and some forum members called it a "boat anchor" ... I was looking at this gorgeous guitar, and "boat anchor" comment came to mind ha ... it is, of course, a ridiculous statement ... |
You betcha! If I remember correctly, James had gone through that guitar. The new owner is very happy with it. |
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