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Topic: Identify Steel Player, Band and Venue |
Dave Sichak
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California, USA
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Posted 29 Dec 2024 4:22 pm |
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Good afternoon,
It's long puzzled me who the steel player was in a photo I have - he appears to be the leader of the band. It looks like it is at a ballroom of some sorts. The guy looks familiar, but sometimes my mind just doesn't click.
Anybody shed light on who this is and where it might have been taken?
Cheers,
Dave Sichak
http://www.hillbilly-music.com
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Ron Wood
From:
Waseca, Minnesota, USA
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Posted 29 Dec 2024 5:00 pm
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| my guess for the player is Bud Isaacs |
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Anthony Lis
From:
South Dakota, USA
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Posted 30 Dec 2024 8:47 pm
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| I hope you get some definitive answers on this, Dave. |
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Dave Sichak
From:
California, USA
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Posted 30 Dec 2024 9:13 pm
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I tend to think that it is Bud Isaacs as Ron noted. But this may be before he started getting known for his work on the pedal steel guitar. Wiki says he got his first version of a pedal steel around 1944 - a Gibson "Electraharp" - and he got his first twin neck pedal steel from Bigsby in 1952. He created a pedal that would change the pitch of TWO strings at the same time. It was interesting in my reading that he was trying to simulate the sound of two fiddles playing around that time. I'm trying to see if I can document who was in his band. Which may help in dating the photo.
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Anthony Lis
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South Dakota, USA
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Posted 31 Dec 2024 8:36 pm
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| Interesting. |
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