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Jerry Hayes
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Posted 15 Apr 2004 4:01 am |
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I had the pleasure in the early 70's of working at a club in Los Angeles for a while with a steeler named J.L. Jenkins. J.L was a non-pedal player who played standing up. He had a double 8 Fender steel and played pretty dang good. I was working with another band 6 nights a week and had a friend who was playing bass in a Swing type group on Sunday afternoon and Monday nights at a club called the SkyLite. The band consisted of Johnny Rives on fiddle, J.L. Jenkins on steel, Leo DeJoy on drums, Marie Laswell on bass and they needed a lead guitarist so I took the job and and wound up enjoying it more than my regular gig. J.L. was part of the Johnny Lee Wills band years before and played that great southwest style that we all love. He always said "To me, pedal steel ain't true steel". This was a great gig for me as we played a lot in the horn keys of Ab, Bb, Eb, etc. so it was a good learning experience. Does anyone out there remember ol' J.L. and is he still alive? Probably not as he was pretty old in the early 70's. Have a good 'un...JH
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Livin' in the Past and the Future with a 12 string Mooney Universal tuning.
[This message was edited by Jerry Hayes on 15 April 2004 at 05:04 AM.] |
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John Floyd
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Posted 15 Apr 2004 1:32 pm
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| I had the pleasure in the early 70's of working at a club in Los Angeles for a while |
How many sets did you last?  |
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Jerry Hayes
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Posted 16 Apr 2004 4:46 am
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In those days I was usually pretty tipsy by the last set. Hell, in LA we worked 5 sets a night unlike where I'm at now where the guys bitch about playing 3 sets...JH
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Livin' in the Past and the Future with a 12 string Mooney Universal tuning.
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Jim Bob Sedgwick
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Posted 16 Apr 2004 5:51 pm
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| Hey Jerry: You forgot to tell the guys about the California laws. In the Mid-sixties, it was against the law for a country musician in the LA area to go to bed from Friday night until Monday morning. Real men don't need chicken wire around the bandstand, Right? |
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John Floyd
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Posted 17 Apr 2004 2:14 am
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| Real men don't need chicken wire around the bandstand, Right? |
Jim Bob
I heard that a little different, You don't need chicken wire around the bandstand, because the men in California are too busy to fight, The reason:
They are all running off to San Francisco to get married.  [This message was edited by John Floyd on 17 April 2004 at 03:22 AM.] |
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Jerry Hayes
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Posted 19 Apr 2004 5:13 am
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Hey Jim Bob,
That's Thursday night till Monday morning. After the gig on Thursday you go to bed (unlike John F. we went with women) and then on Friday after the gig it was to the afterhours at the Imperial Inn, Aces Club, Blue Fox, Time Out, or a couple of other places and then to the morning session at the Blue Room in LaPuente to watch Johnny Paycheck sleep on his steel guitar. On Saturday we'd do the same thing again and the play the gig on Sunday night and go to sleep after that unless we got lucky.
Back to the subject. J.L. Jenkins, I think I'll post this in the non pedal section.
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Livin' in the Past and the Future with a 12 string Mooney Universal tuning.
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John Floyd
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Posted 20 Apr 2004 5:37 am
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| (unlike John F. we went with women) |
Jerry I've always been sure I was with women, unlike you California guys, who can't always be sure.
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