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Topic: Winnie Winston /Gordon Titcomb photo circa 1975 |
Gordon Titcomb
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Posted 6 Dec 2003 5:18 pm |
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Hi y'all
Just found this old photo of Winnie Winston & me playing a steel guitar convention in
1975.
You can see it on my website at: http://www.gordontitcomb.com/features.html
a fun little piece of my past.
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Best regards-Gordon http://www.gordontitcomb.com
[This message was edited by Gordon Titcomb on 06 December 2003 at 07:58 PM.] |
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scott murray
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Asheville, NC
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Posted 7 Dec 2003 12:12 am
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great to see you on the forum, Gordon.
Bill Keith is a wonderful steel player, and his work on the Blue Velvet Band album influenced me greatly. Is it true that he's playing steel again?
your playing on his 'Beating Around the Bush' album is absolutely awesome. "Cherokee Shuffle" is my favorite.
I'd love to hear more of your playing. |
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David Doggett
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Bawl'mer, MD (formerly of MS, Nawluns, Gnashville, Knocksville, Lost Angeles, Bahsten. and Philly)
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Posted 7 Dec 2003 1:02 am
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Ahhhh, the Blue Velvet Band...one of my favorite memories from the '70s.  |
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Winnie Winston
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Tawa, Wellington, NZ * R.I.P.
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Posted 7 Dec 2003 1:56 am
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Was later than 1975-- probably 1977. I'm playing my "The Steel" with the Kline keyless tuner.
I met Joe in 1976 and got the tuner then, so I didn't finish the guitar until the spring of 1977.
More about "The Steel" on my website-- when it gets finished (I hope by Christmas!).
JW |
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Gordon Titcomb
From:
Woodbury, Connecticut, USA
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Posted 7 Dec 2003 4:36 am
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Thanks for the kind words Scott!
We did a New Blue Velvet Band reunion tour in 1991 or 1992 ( as Winnie points out, I'm not the best when it comes to remembering dates  )
I was playing steel & mandolin on the tour, Bill Keith was only playing banjo ( which is a great shame,.......I have always loved Bill's steel playing too)Jim Rooney,Eric Weissberg & Kenny Kosek played the tour, as they were original members of the band,..I was the "new kid".
I just saw Eric last Saturday night,...we played at Carnegie Hall together on Arlo Guthrie's Holiday show.......Eric was playing (and singing) with the Weavers, and I'm working in Arlo's band these days.
Anyway, I have about 40 hours of digital (DAT)live recordings of that last NBVB tour
and am in the process of trying to listen, edit and see if there is enough good stuff for a record. If so,(and if Bill,Eric,Jim & Kenny agree)I will release a live New Blue Velvet Band album at sometime in the future.
Winne,..I think it must have been no later than the early fall of '77 'cause I started playing an Emmons in about late sept. of that year.
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Best regards-Gordon http://www.gordontitcomb.com
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Gordon Titcomb
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Woodbury, Connecticut, USA
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Posted 7 Dec 2003 4:53 am
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BTW, the last time I talked to Bill,
was a couple months ago, and he said he was in fact back to playing steel ....YEAH!
Interesting story about Cherokee Shuffle........
It was the last song picked for the album.
I co-produced the album with Bill, and we were messing around with some different fiddle tunes (anything he plays is great so it was difficult to choose WHAT tune to put on the album that was representative of his famous "Keith Syle" in regards to fiddle tunes.
That song has ALWAYS been one of my favorites,so I suggested it, Bill said yes, and we recorded it,.......without pedal steel. I played a doubled 2 part mandolin break,.......not even thinking putting steel on it.
Well it turns out that during mixdown we discovered there were serious problems with the fiddle track (I don't remember what they were, but the long and short of it was that we had to scrap the fiddle track).
The fiddle player was long gone, and now we had a hole to fill,or chop out 36 measures.
My steel was in my car so I said to Bill, how 'bout I take a crack at it on steel?
and that's the story,..it was never planned to be on the record with a steel break!
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Best regards-Gordon
http://www.gordontitcomb.com
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scott murray
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Asheville, NC
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Posted 7 Dec 2003 2:28 pm
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great story re. Cherokee Shuffle.
i'd love to hear you on some more fiddle tunes, Gordon. the E9 tuning is really perfect for so many of those.
Larry Campbell did a great medley of fiddle tunes in the animated film 'The Tune' by Bill Plympton (who's also a steelplayer)...
And please pursue that NBVB album!!! |
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Gordon Titcomb
From:
Woodbury, Connecticut, USA
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Posted 7 Dec 2003 3:14 pm
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Larry Campbell is a great player on about any instrument he touches. He is also very good old friend of mine.
He and I have followed each other in and out of several bands: the John Herald Band, Kinky Friedman's band, Woodstock Mountains Review.
In the eighties we were both working with Shawn Colvin,Buddy Miller,Jim Lauderdale, and probably a dozen other people that I can't bring to mind at the moment.
It's funny you also mentioning Eric Weissberg. Not a lot of people know that Eric plays pedal steel. They just know his big banjo hit: Dueling Banjos. Eric played steel for quite a few Big 70's artists .
From the late 70's on, either Larry, Eric or I did about 95% of all the seel sessions in New York City. At one point I was playing with Paul Simon, Eric was playing with Art Garfunkle, and Larry was ( and still is)playing for Bob Dylan, so who ever happened to be home on any given week picked up a bunch of sessions.
A lot of people don't know it, but Larry plays a MEAN fiddle, in addition to steel,dobro,guitar etc.
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Best regards-Gordon http://www.gordontitcomb.com
[This message was edited by Gordon Titcomb on 07 December 2003 at 03:22 PM.] |
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Gordon Titcomb
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Woodbury, Connecticut, USA
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Posted 7 Dec 2003 3:33 pm
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p.s.
Cindy Cashdollar followed both Larry & I in and out of at least 2 bands that I'm aware of: John Herald Band and Woodstock Mts' Review. Cindy & I were both living in Woodstock, NY at about that time, So was :Bill Keith, Eric Wiessberg, John Hall.
There were plenty of steels in that little town.
:-)
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Best regards-Gordon
http://www.gordontitcomb.com
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Gordon Titcomb
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Woodbury, Connecticut, USA
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Posted 7 Dec 2003 8:16 pm
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Actually , come to think of it, the late 70's -80's saw not only Larry,Eric, and I but several other guys: John Widgren, Harvey Shapiro, Lynn Friaser, Marc Horowitz,Josh Dubin, and a couple of other guys whose names are escaping me at the moment doing a lot of session work in New York City. As far as live work, most of us were playing anywhere from 2-7 nights a week,...it was NUTS, the whole Urban Cowboy phenomenon spawned more work than you could imagine in The Big Apple during that period.
As far as I know,John is still the only guy in this list that's still doing the NY thing.I'm sure the other guys named in this list are still pickin' somewhere as they were all good players, (I've just lost track of them)
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Best regards-Gordon http://www.gordontitcomb.com
[This message was edited by Gordon Titcomb on 07 December 2003 at 08:19 PM.] |
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