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Don Walters Member From: Regina, SK, Canada |
posted 18 June 2003 09:32 AM
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This is from the back of an album I just dug out of my collection. No, I'm not being smart, That's the whole photo! How many of you recognize who this is?
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Kevin Hatton Member From: Amherst, N.Y. |
posted 18 June 2003 09:37 AM
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Bobbe Seymour? [This message was edited by Kevin Hatton on 18 June 2003 at 09:38 AM.] |
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Billy Easton Member From: Casa Grande, Arizona, USA |
posted 18 June 2003 09:50 AM
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I think that is my hero, Speedy West!! Second guess is Buddy Emmons. [This message was edited by Billy Easton on 18 June 2003 at 10:03 AM.] |
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Jim Vogan Member From: Ohio City, Ohio 45874 |
posted 18 June 2003 09:51 AM
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I'd say it's probably Bobbe Seymour. That looks like the way he holds his bar. ------------------ |
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Jerry Roller Member From: Van Buren, Arkansas USA |
posted 18 June 2003 09:58 AM
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I would say he is a tall one. Sits far to the right with the volume pedal outside the guitar to keep his knee from hitting like I used to do before I got a taller guitar. Jerry |
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Don Walters Member From: Regina, SK, Canada |
posted 18 June 2003 10:03 AM
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As I look at the cover of the LP, I'm beginning to wonder if the photo above is really The player whose album it is. Maybe it isn't and that's why they didn't show his face. They wouldn't do that, would they ???  Anyway, here's part of the front cover (more to come if needed) [This message was edited by Don Walters on 18 June 2003 at 10:10 AM.] |
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Jim Vogan Member From: Ohio City, Ohio 45874 |
posted 18 June 2003 10:10 AM
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Here's a link to a picture of Buddy Emmons playing a Bigsby with his leg on the outside. http://www.buddyemmons.com/dickens.htm That looks like an old Herb Remington album cover.
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Larry Bell Member From: Englewood, Florida |
posted 18 June 2003 10:17 AM
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Looks more like Buddy's old Bigsby. Most of the Speedy/Bigsby pictures I've seen have the front panel. Looks like Buddy's T-8 with 2 pedals, but what do I know? ------------------ |
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Herb Steiner Member From: Cedar Valley, Travis County TX |
posted 18 June 2003 10:21 AM
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Well, the fella is not only tall but also very slender. The photo is of course from a Herb Remington record. In his younger days, Herbie was probably that tall and slender, but I've not known him to ever own a Bigsby, or at least play one professionally. Mostly he just used Fenders. Would be worth a phone call, I guess. ------------------ |
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Don Walters Member From: Regina, SK, Canada |
posted 18 June 2003 10:23 AM
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If ya need to know, just ask Herb S.  Yes, it's H.R. |
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Herb Steiner Member From: Cedar Valley, Travis County TX |
posted 18 June 2003 10:58 AM
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Don, thanks, but I had the same question as the topic. I've always wondered who that guy playing the Bigsby was myself. I never really thought it was Herbie R. ------------------ |
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Jussi Huhtakangas Member From: Helsinki, Finland |
posted 18 June 2003 10:57 PM
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The man is Gary Stewart, I have the whole photo somewhere. I don't know much about him, but I have a couple of other pictures of him playing the same Bigsby with Tommy Collins and Roy Drusky. The guitar in fact, is the one Faron Young bought and Lloyd Green used when he played with Faron. When Lloyd left Faron, Gary Stewart bought the guitar and shipped it to Paul Bigbsy to have his name inlaid on it. This is what I've been told, maybe Lloyd Green knows more or can confirm this. |
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Jim Phelps Member From: just out of Mexico City |
posted 18 June 2003 11:01 PM
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It's from HERBIE REMINGTON's album "Remington Rides Again". I have the album.... Am I to believe ol' Herbie put out an album with some other guy and guitar on it??? Man, now I'm really disillusioned! Hey Jussi, how bout posting the entire picture for us? [This message was edited by Jim Phelps on 18 June 2003 at 11:18 PM.] |
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Jussi Huhtakangas Member From: Helsinki, Finland |
posted 18 June 2003 11:23 PM
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Forgot to mention, that the original picture has Gary's name on the guitar. I guess they just erased it for Herb Remington's album. |
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Jussi Huhtakangas Member From: Helsinki, Finland |
posted 18 June 2003 11:35 PM
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Jim, sorry I don't know how to post pics here ( I got two left thumbs when it comes to computers  ), if you can do it ( or someone else ), let me know and I'll email the picture to you. [This message was edited by Jussi Huhtakangas on 18 June 2003 at 11:42 PM.] |
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David Mullis Member From: Rock Hill, SC |
posted 19 June 2003 03:47 AM
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Hey Jim, Herb may not have had a lot to do with the album cover art. Record companies are known to use "canned" pictures. One fine example would be Jimmy Days steel and strings album. There's a picture of a harlan bros. multikord on the cover. From what I hear Buddy's steel guitar jazz album also had a multikord on the cover. I've got the newer version with Buddy on the cover so I can't say for sure. Somehow I doubt either one of them played a multikord, at least not on those albums  Just a thought. Take Care |
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Don Walters Member From: Regina, SK, Canada |
posted 19 June 2003 07:08 AM
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Jussi, send the full photo to me as an e-mail attachment and I'll post it |
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Jim Phelps Member From: just out of Mexico City |
posted 19 June 2003 08:54 AM
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Jussi's right, it's Gary Stewart alright. He sent me the photo to post, (before you asked for it, Don) so here it is. By the way David, I was just joking about being disillusioned, I know the record companies put cover art of whatever they think looks good....come to think of it, nowdays they're recording whatever they think looks good too! Anyway, here's the photo: [This message was edited by Jim Phelps on 19 June 2003 at 09:10 AM.] |
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Don Walters Member From: Regina, SK, Canada |
posted 19 June 2003 09:24 AM
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That's it! BTW what kind of bar is he using .. looks black in the photos? |
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Billy Easton Member From: Casa Grande, Arizona, USA |
posted 19 June 2003 09:37 AM
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Don... Back in the fifties, a popular bar was the "Black Rajah". It was a bakelite with a brass insert and was round and slightly tapered. That would be my guess on the bar in the picture. ------------------ [This message was edited by Billy Easton on 19 June 2003 at 09:46 AM.] |
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David Mullis Member From: Rock Hill, SC |
posted 19 June 2003 09:50 AM
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Cool deal Jim I had only been awake like 5 minutes when I posted that. I guess my humor sensor doesn't kick in until after that first shot of caffeine |
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Roy Ayres Member From: Starke, Florida, USA |
posted 19 June 2003 09:51 AM
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I used a Black Rajah for awhile in the 50's. They were tapered; a little smaller at the nose. Noel Boggs turned me onto them. In fact, I think they were his brain child. He claimed the small nose allowed faster single-note picking with the tip of the bar and the larger back end gave more weight for the bass strings. (I never saw one that wasn't warped.) ============================================= Edited to say that I think the picture is a fake. There ain't nobody that young! [This message was edited by Roy Ayres on 19 June 2003 at 09:53 AM.] |
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Joey Ace Sysop From: Southern Ontario, Canada |
posted 19 June 2003 12:32 PM
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I'm always impressed by the collective wisdom of this forum.  Between all of us we know everything! Thanks for the info and great picture! |
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Jim Phelps Member From: just out of Mexico City |
posted 19 June 2003 02:02 PM
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Yep, lotta knowledge in this forum. Remington Rides Again was one of my favorite albums when I was getting into steel, back then I always thought he played the pictured Bigsby....never realized it was a Fender on the recordings. My first pedal steel was an old Fender 1000, sure wish I still had it. Anybody know what model Herbie played on that album? I always thought it sounded like he had at least a couple pedals (maybe the power of suggestion by the pictured Bigsby).....I haven't heard the album in many years, for all I know he was doing bar slants.....I'd be able to tell the difference now but don't have a record player..... [This message was edited by Jim Phelps on 19 June 2003 at 02:02 PM.] |
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Fred Jack Member From: Bay City Texas |
posted 19 June 2003 03:43 PM
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Is Gary Stewart aka "Dusty" Stewart today? regards, fred |
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Bryan Bradfield Member From: Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
posted 19 June 2003 06:02 PM
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I was recently in contact with Herbie concerning that album. He used the non-pedal guitar for recording the album. As I recall, he said that the record company used a picture on the back that was their idea of what a steel guitar should look like. |
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nick allen Member From: France |
posted 19 June 2003 11:55 PM
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I guess this is NOT the same Gary Stewart that recorded songs like "Flat Natural Born Good Timing Man" in the 70s? and if I remember right was a piano player...? Nick |
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Jason Odd Member From: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
posted 20 June 2003 06:48 AM
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You'd be right Nick, that's a different Gary altogether. The Gary Stewart of 1970s country hits fame was playing in frat bands and the like as a youngun in the 1960s, so a slightly different age group as well. |
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Joey Ace Sysop From: Southern Ontario, Canada |
posted 20 June 2003 06:54 AM
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I guess they used PhotoShop software to remove Gary Stewart's name from the front of the guitar. |
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Jussi Huhtakangas Member From: Helsinki, Finland |
posted 22 June 2003 08:54 AM
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More about oddball album covers; Capitol records used a photo of Billy Strange with a Gretsch 6120 on Jimmy Bryant's "Country Cabin Jazz" album. Pi$$ed a heck out of Jimmy Bryant!! Jazz guitarist Johnny Smith's legendary "Man With A Blue Guitar" album displays a silhouette of a guitar playing man. The silhouette is actually taken from a picture of a Gretsch ad and the man is Chet Atkins. |
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