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Topic: Crazy lap steel stand! |
Steven Pearce
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Port Orchard Washington, USA
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Bob Fraser
From:
Saskatchewan, Canada
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Posted 11 Oct 2022 10:04 pm |
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There but for fifty years or so,
goes the Peavey Power Slide ? |
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Levi Gemmell
From:
New Zealand
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Posted 12 Oct 2022 12:36 pm
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Sevesi is playing an eight-string Commodore steel guitar here in 1959 - they have an aluminium top wrapped in MOP celluloid, attached to a wooden body. Almost every other photo of Bill shows him playing homemade double-neck steels, often with Commodore parts. Further down on the page linked, there are photos of him at the Waihi RSA in 1963 (four years later than the OP photo) also playing this stock Commodore.
Can't confirm but it may even be the same colour as the one below belonging to forum member and Kiwi steeler Les Thomas:
I also owned one in this colour previously. They have very comfortable wide string spacing and nice pickups. Above all they are some of the most beautiful Deco-style steel guitars ever made.
Alex Patchett beside him is playing a Commodore solid body electric guitar - also with a celluloid top - of which there were many iterations.
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Commodore S-8
John Allison S-8
JB Frypan S-8
Sho~Bud LDG SD-10
1966 Fender Super Reverb |
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David Weisenthal
From:
Arizona, USA
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Posted 12 Oct 2022 2:46 pm
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| What a great idea, wonder why we havent seen it before. Love these vintage photos. Look at the pompadour on the acoustic guitar player! |
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Walter Webb
From:
California, USA
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Posted 15 Oct 2022 9:20 am
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| Doubles nicely for his day job selling peanuts at the ball park... |
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Peter Jacobs
From:
Northern Virginia
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Posted 15 Oct 2022 11:11 am
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I was thinking more “cigars, cigarettes”
It’s cool how he solved the problem way back when |
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