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Joey Ace Sysop From: Southern Ontario, Canada |
posted 10 April 2002 04:17 PM
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So anyway... I was invited over to this oldtimer’s house to play Steel in his living room while he strummed a 6-String and sang. In the middle of the first song his wife comes over and stares at me listening intently. After the tune she says to her husband, “He sounds just like Buddy!” He agrees. I say “thanks” and play better than ever on the next few songs. Then their old tom-cat starts to whine and claw at the door. The wife says,”What’s the matter Buddy? Wanna go out?” |
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Tony Davis Member From: Brisbane, QLD, Australia |
posted 11 April 2002 06:23 AM
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 ROTFLMAO.....Yeh Joey !!!..I know I have told this befor somewhere,but you just reminded me.I was backing local TV artist and RCA recording artist....but he was alright apart from that as he is a personal friend. We were doing a charity show in the State Mental Institution......I had an external reverb unit in a shoe box on the floor behind my amp......when "Buddy"...or some other cat...leapt on my amp.....the crash was awsome.....all the inmates had to be escorted away.....and that was the end of the show........I was laughing so much I couldnt have played anymore anyway !!!!!! Just reminded me..with your "Buddy" story !!!!!! Tony |
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George Kimery Member From: Limestone, TN, USA |
posted 14 April 2002 11:04 AM
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After we had finished playing a gig at the mental hospital, one of the nurses observed a patient coming up and talking to me as I was packing up. She asked what they had said to me. I told her that the man said if you think you can play that steel guitar, I'm the Queen of England. The nurse was so happy. She explained it might be a break through for this patient because it was the first thing he had said that made sense since he had been admitted. |
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Tony Davis Member From: Brisbane, QLD, Australia |
posted 15 April 2002 06:20 AM
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..Yeh....I like that George...seems like we mix in the same company but in different parts of the world !!! |
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Anne Marie O Keeffe Member From: Co.Waterford,Ireland. |
posted 15 April 2002 11:31 AM
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Different parts of the world?????? Tony, half the times I reckon you're not even on the same planet as the rest of us. |
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Mac Lloyd Member From: Southern Utah |
posted 15 April 2002 05:57 PM
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Was that you I was talking to George?  [This message was edited by Mac Lloyd on 15 April 2002 at 05:57 PM.] |
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George Kimery Member From: Limestone, TN, USA |
posted 15 April 2002 09:13 PM
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Good comeback Mac! I think we all belong in a mental ward for picking a pedal steel instead of a harmonica. Our brains are just not normal and would make an interesting study. |
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Tony Davis Member From: Brisbane, QLD, Australia |
posted 16 April 2002 06:00 AM
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Well I got to tell you George.....even though it goes very much against my nice quiet and polite attitude....that...present company excepted....that a couple or three others on this thread have offered to sell their brains to science......I would have thought that they would have fetched a good price as they have never been used.....but so far the only interest shown has been by the Microbiology department in the local university....oh and the rare Tropical Pests departement. I do believe also that Ripleys 'Believe it or Not' has put in a bid....but just for one so called brain.......Its not really the Neuro type thing though....it has a big Key in the back that you wind up and it sings in an Irish Accent....."The Fields of Athenrye" Sorry..thats an 'In Joke"....but no doubt she will kill me anyway...so what the heck!! |
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Mac Lloyd Member From: Southern Utah |
posted 16 April 2002 11:00 AM
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Your right George, last time they wouldn't even let me take my guitar. They were afraid I might hurt myself. They just have no sense of humor about how often that third string breaks. |
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George Kimery Member From: Limestone, TN, USA |
posted 16 April 2002 06:38 PM
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I read an article somewhere that brains are selling for a lot of money for scientific research. They are paying $1000.00 per ounce for college professors brains, $2000.00 per ounce for nuclear physicists brains, $5000.00 per ounce for nobel prize winners brains, and $100,000.00 per ounce for steel guitarists brains.The article said the price difference was because it takes so many steel guitarists to get an ounce of brains. |
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Tony Davis Member From: Brisbane, QLD, Australia |
posted 17 April 2002 05:17 AM
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Y'know George?...I'm starting to get a bit worried about you, all this derogifying...er degenerating all us steel plunkers...y'know....about not having brains.....why just the other day I heard that my Boss had pointed out to someone that I was a man with two brains......so Hows about that?....He said something about "One lost and the other out looking for it!"........he also told me that he feels comfortable around me...he said that 'If my brains were made of dynamite they wouldnt even blow my hat off!"...which I thought rather strange anyway as I dont wear a hat......er well I sometimes wear a baseball cap if you can call that a hat...which is again strange as I never go to baseball. So anyway..I was just wondering with all this derogifagation of steel players what do you play....is it a Vega Pete Seeger no-back long kneck special......or a Gibson Mastertone with a fifth string capo ? See I got away without using That word!!! Tony |
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Bob Mainwaring Member From: Qualicum Beach Vancouver Island B.C. Canada |
posted 17 April 2002 08:28 AM
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Main thing Tony - you know all about them!! .................I like that Big Bad Bob. ------------------ |
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George Kimery Member From: Limestone, TN, USA |
posted 17 April 2002 07:21 PM
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Tony, my boss told me that if my brain was rolled on the edge of a razor blade, it would look like a BB shot rolling down a 4 lane highway. The steel is not my main instrument. The main instrument I play is the Fonorton, a rather strange instrument that is 40 feet long and you play it by blowing in both ends at the same time. A recent rendition of Tiger Rag almost did me in. Sorry I can't write more, but my BB shot brain has used all the words it knows. Perhaps we had better move back to "good clean jokes that the whole family can enjoy." |
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Frank Member From: West Memphis, Ar . USofA, where steeling comes natural |
posted 17 April 2002 10:22 PM
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Well I`ll be doggies, I always thought a "fonotron" was one of those horns the guys selling caugh drops played on the side of a mountain. Tony, did you know that?? Thought you might, you tried to sell me something like that along with that fence jumping cow here a while back. |
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Donny Hinson Member From: Balto., Md. U.S.A. |
posted 27 April 2002 04:35 PM
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Sounds like what I did to my friend Curry Coster a couple of weeks ago. We were both playing at a jamboree, and when he got off stage I told him..."Man, you sound just like Buddy!" "Buddy who?", he asked. "Buddy Ebsen!" I said with a laugh. 'Course, he did get even. When I finished playing, I asked him..."How was my tone?" "Fine", he said, "Just like Paul!" "You mean Paul Franklin?" I asked. "No", he answered..."Paul Winchell!" |
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