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Topic: Speedy West interview |
Andy Volk
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Mitch Drumm
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Frostbite Falls, hard by Veronica Lake
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Posted 12 May 2018 4:45 am Re: Speedy West interview |
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https://soundcloud.com/aev/speedy-west-interview
Not sure where I got this or exactly when it was recorded. I found it on a drive while looking for something else. Cool to hear Speedy's voice, memories and opinions. |
I think that is from about 1980. He's being interviewed by Sammy Jackson of KLAC in Los Angeles. |
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Chris Templeton
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The Green Mountain State
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Larry Dering
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Missouri, USA
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Posted 12 May 2018 7:19 pm
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| Andy thanks for posting this. I seen Speedy for several years at Scottys International Steel Convention in St Louis. He was no longer able to play and did MC duties. Great guy and more than a legend and innovator. He had such style and fire in his playing. I will always admire his contributions to the steel guitar. |
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Andy Volk
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Posted 13 May 2018 6:52 am
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It's amazing what Speedy and Jimmy pulled off in their prime from sheer talent and desire; amazing 60 year old music that still sounds fresh and exciting. Speedy (in this and other interviews) comes off as a really kind person who gave credit where credit was due and was modest about his own accomplishments. Kind of like Django, there's a magic to Speedy's music that simply cannot be duplicated.
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Anthony Lis
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South Dakota, USA
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Posted 13 May 2018 5:23 pm
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Andy,
Thanks for posting this; as someone else said, interesting to hear Speedy West's voice (and also sense his friendly demeanor).
I taped the interview this morning, to listen to while I did some walking this evening; unfortunately, I learned there are skips in the program—is this perhaps a problem with the original? At first I thought, OK, someone in podcast-land is shortening the musical examples (and I can see where the original interviewer might fade an example, for sake of time, but there were also abrupt, wholesale cuts in examples, and at least one moment where a missing part of an earlier conversation popped in out of nowhere). Also—towards the end, some brief gaps of silence. Just curious.
A. Lis |
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Mitch Drumm
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Frostbite Falls, hard by Veronica Lake
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Posted 13 May 2018 6:25 pm
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Here's another interview with Speedy from 1974, done at a Western Swing festival in Tulsa.
http://picosong.com/wP4fz
Only about 3 minutes.
He explains how he saw Eddie Martin (in late 1947) using a fish hook welded onto a coat hanger to pull strings on a pedal steel. Martin’s setup did not use stops, so Speedy says “so I went to a man by the name of Paul Bigsby……………”.
Anthony: my copy of the longer interview has the same gaps that you mention. I'm not aware of any version without those issues. |
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Andy Volk
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Anthony Lis
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Posted 13 May 2018 9:12 pm
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Mitch,
Thanks; I will also give your link a listen. Interesting your copy of the longer interview has gaps, also; I'm usually of the "blame-my-setup-first" school of thought. |
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Anthony Lis
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South Dakota, USA
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Posted 13 May 2018 9:16 pm
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Andy,
Thanks. I didn't know about the NAMM interview with Speedy West; I'll also check out the Mike Neer link. Interesting to hear about your other, unfortunately-currently-mispaced material. |
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