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Topic: Report on Tommy Morrell @TSGA ??? |
Dave Grothusen
From:
Scott City, Ks
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Posted 13 Mar 2006 1:18 pm |
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| I did not get to Dallas this year. Can anyone tell me how Tommy was on Sat night? Can anyone post a picture? |
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Larry Gerdeman
From:
Missouri, USA (deceased)
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Posted 13 Mar 2006 2:54 pm
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| I saw Tommy play Saturday night. He looked really weekI saw him out front of the hotel in the afternoon he was in a power wheelchair, but when he got on stage his voice was not weak when he talked and his playing was definitly not weak. He sounded great. |
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Darvin Willhoite
From:
Roxton, Tx. USA
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Posted 13 Mar 2006 5:25 pm
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And he hasn't lost his sense of humor, I was looking for a working ice machine Sunday evening and got into the elevator with him. He looked at the silver ice bucket with a handle and said "Man what you got in that thing, Kryptonite?"
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Darvin Willhoite
Riva Ridge Recording
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Dean Parks
From:
Sherman Oaks, California, USA
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Posted 13 Mar 2006 6:51 pm
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Tom Morrell and the Time Warp Top Hands
I am embarassed to say I had not heard Tom Morrell play until Saturday night. He is just a brilliant musician. His taste, touch, and rhythm are impeccable, and the jazz lines he pulls out of a 10 string fixed tuning are astonishing, and would be remarksble no matter what the instrument. I'm so glad I stayed up for that midnight set!
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Sonny Jenkins
From:
Texas Masonic Retirement Center,,,Arlington Tx
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Posted 13 Mar 2006 8:56 pm
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| Tom Morrel can get music,,,beautiful music out of anything,,,a remarkably talented man,,,a true artist,,,who probably won't get the recognition he deserves in this lifetime (as so many true artist)!!! It was very heartbreaking to see him in that condition,,,,I understand he's had a very bad year. |
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Hook Moore
From:
South Charleston,West Virginia
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Dale Thomas
From:
West Branch, IA
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Posted 14 Mar 2006 4:10 pm
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Many have said "Tom's a genius". Even in his condition,he still played great swing. The arrangements between Tom, Rich, Leon and the fiddles were definitely worth staying up for. That's my kind of music. Dale
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Doug Seymour
From:
Jamestown NY USA (deceased)
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Posted 14 Mar 2006 4:59 pm
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10 strings, eh? Is his tuning public knowledge?
I have the album he did with the Playboy alumni & he played his Bigsby on that! I love it. Tommy Allsup & Leon Rausch.....great music! I think the liner notes credited Buddy Spicher as having done the arranging (sp) |
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Doug Seymour
From:
Jamestown NY USA (deceased)
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Posted 14 Mar 2006 5:00 pm
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10 strings, eh? Is his tuning public knowledge?
I have the album he did with the Playboy alumni & he played his Bigsby on that! I love it. Tommy Allsup & Leon Rausch.....great music! I think the liner notes credited Buddy Spicher as having done the arranging (sp) |
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Doug Seymour
From:
Jamestown NY USA (deceased)
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Posted 14 Mar 2006 5:02 pm
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| oops! didn't mean to double post.....I went back to my tool bar to play another Doug Jernigan & when I came back it did that. Computers!! or me? |
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JB Arnold
From:
Longmont,Co,USA (deceased)
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Posted 14 Mar 2006 8:34 pm
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Hey, I've seen Morrell every year there for the past 5 and he's always good but I had my doubts because his health is clearly not good. Let me tell you, he put on a freakin' clinic Saturday night. That was the best I've heard him play.
JB
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Al Marcus
From:
Cedar Springs,MI USA (deceased)
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Posted 14 Mar 2006 8:37 pm
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Tom Morrell is a fine musician and I have always enjoyed his creative style of playing.....al 
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George Duncan Sypert
From:
Colo Spgs, Co, USA
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Posted 14 Mar 2006 9:11 pm
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JB is exactly correct. I too have heard Tommy play each year for the last 6 years. I saw him his wheelchair and thought that he would not be able to play this year. Boy was I wrong. I had a friend from Florida who had not heard Tom and the band before and he was completely blown away. I told several people in Dallas and several since my return that Saturday Night was the very best that I had ever heard him. Not to take anything away from his other performances but he was sharp as a tack and the band was incredible. Parts galore and great singing. Tom conducted the band to perfection. The sit-in piano player was poetry in motion and sound.
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Ricky Davis
From:
Bertram, Texas USA
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Posted 14 Mar 2006 11:44 pm
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Tom's Tuning>
1) G#
2) F#
3) E
4) C#
5) B
6) G#
7) F#
 E
9) D
10)E
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Doug Seymour
From:
Jamestown NY USA (deceased)
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Posted 15 Mar 2006 4:15 am
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| Hey, Ricky, You have my thanks for Tom's tuning. You are much appreciated on this forum & I'll bet at home & in Texas, too!!! [This message was edited by Doug Seymour on 15 March 2006 at 04:16 AM.] |
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David Wright
From:
Pilot Point ,Tx USA.
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Posted 15 Mar 2006 8:23 am
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| Tom is a great player.... and is right at the top of my favorite players ! ! talked to him Sunday and he told me someone stole his picks and bar, a bag with all his playing things in it..(((((( |
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John McGann
From:
Boston, Massachusetts, USA * R.I.P.
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Posted 15 Mar 2006 8:57 am
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Tom is a master musician.
For those who haven't heard it, in the CDs and Tapes section of the forum (link above) the duo recording Tom did with Maurice Anderson in the '70's entitled "Sextet Sessions" features mind blowing, out of this world amazing playing from both. I believe Tom was using 5 fingerpicks on pedal steel back then.
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David Wright
From:
Pilot Point ,Tx USA.
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Posted 15 Mar 2006 11:37 am
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| Good news, I was told Tom got his things back)))))))))))))))))))))) |
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Bill Irsik
From:
Lenexa, Kansas
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Posted 15 Mar 2006 12:09 pm
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Dave
I can't believe the one year I go to Dallas you don't. Oh well, your lose! Ha! Ha! I stayed through most of Tom's set and thought he did great. A very enjoyable evening.
Later.... |
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Russ Wever
From:
Kansas City
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Posted 15 Mar 2006 1:24 pm
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| I believe Tom was using 5 fingerpicks on pedal steel back then. |
How he do that? 
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John McGann
From:
Boston, Massachusetts, USA * R.I.P.
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Posted 15 Mar 2006 1:48 pm
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Russ, haven't you heard of the double-thumb technique?
I meant thumbpick and 4 fingerpicks...at least that's what I read somewhere...
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Andy Greatrix
From:
Edmonton Alberta
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Posted 15 Mar 2006 5:08 pm
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| My friend, Calvin Volrath (he was the other fiddler in Brin Sklar's band at the Carter room) was totally blown away by Tom Morrel. He couldn't say enough about him. Calvin is also a brutally good fiddler who swings like crazy. |
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Steve Spitz
From:
New Orleans, LA, USA
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Posted 15 Mar 2006 5:52 pm
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| I agree , he was in top form . What a pleasant suprise. Both he and the band sounded better than ever. |
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