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Frank Estes Member Posts: 2451 |
posted 24 April 2001 04:01 PM
Do you remember the first time you "knowingly" heard Buddy Emmons play an instrumental, live or on a recording? I do. It was "Danny Boy" from the "Black Album" on Scotty's "Anthology of the Pedal Steel Guitar." I bought that great instruction course in 1980 and that song was the first tune on the Scotty's cassette of the pro tunes. Wow, what an impression that performance made and I knew I could use that tune in gospel music because of Dottie Rambo's lyrics to that melody which she entitled, "He looked beyond my faults." The first steel guitar instrumental album I bought was a live LP of the 1978 International Steel Guitar Convention. It had two songs each from Buddy, Lloyd, Doug, and Maurice. All performed superbly, of course. Buddy's tone was to die for on "Blue Jade," which was also on Scotty's Anthology course. I think he played "the Blade" and used and echoplex, you know the one with the tapes. Wow! Buddy also did a very cool version of "You are so beautiful" using a phase shifter on the C6 neck and he dedicated it to his wife. I played that song for my beautiful wife, Robyn, on our very first date. She should have seen the handwriting on the wall then that steel guitar was going to be an *important* part of her life! One of these days I will pester Buddy about a particular chord he did on that tune. I hope to play that tune at one of our Valentine banquets in the future. Hats and Derbys off to you, Buddy!!! ------------------ |
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Roger Edgington Member Posts: 999 |
posted 25 April 2001 07:09 AM
I don't remember the first recording, but I remember the first time I saw him live. It was at Frontier Ranch in Ohio around 1963. He was on the road with Ray Price and still playing the Sho-Bud. Darrell McCall was playing bass and Johnny Bush was on drums. WOW,what a band. I was playing my old Fender 1000 with the locals on the show and backup for single acts. This is where Connie Smith also started. Those were some fun days. |
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JB Arnold Member Posts: 1615 |
posted 25 April 2001 07:27 AM
"Rainbows All Over Your Blues" from John B Sebatian's first solo album, late 60's. He also played a moog synthsizer on that LP. 1st time I really noticed the steel, although I'd heard it before on Hank and stuff growing up in Alabama part-time. JB ------------------ |
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Jim Eaton Member Posts: 1036 |
posted 25 April 2001 08:35 AM
I had been playing about 6 months at the time. I went to a Sho-Bud demo that was to feature Shot Jackson and Dave Musgrave. I really didn't even know who they were at the time. I stumbled into PSG through the early 70's country rock door. Being such a newbie at the time, I was happy to get to see anybody that could play better than me and that left alot of room! Little did I know! I had gone with a guy named Barney Horn who was a local player in LA. We were standing out front of the shop waiting for Shot and Dave to show up for the demo when a car pulled in. Barneys jaw dropped and his eyes bugged out. I ask him what was going on to which he said "thats Buddy Emmons driving that car!" Buddy was living in LA at the time and drove Shot and Dave to the show. He played Bass behind Shot and Dave for a while and then sat down at a D-10 Sho-Bud and just blew me away! I can't even remember exactly what songs he played but I knew right then and there that I had just seen the Master at work and life was going to be different after that! JE:-). |
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Bob Hoffnar Member Posts: 4278 |
posted 25 April 2001 08:54 AM
It was "Blue Jade" from the Black album that did me in. Bob |
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Smiley Roberts Member Posts: 4424 |
posted 25 April 2001 10:06 AM
I have a 16" U.S.Army radio transcription,("Country Style USA") that features "Little" Jimmy Dickens.This was a 15 min. weekly show,sent to radio stations only. On the show,"Tater" features "E" doing "Buddie's Boogie". "E" was about 18 at the time. I'm still fascinated by it.This was in the mid '50's. ------------------ ~ ~ [This message was edited by Smiley Roberts on 25 April 2001 at 07:59 PM.] |
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Henry Member Posts: 256 |
posted 25 April 2001 10:18 AM
It was a NANCY SINATRA LP ,i think late ,60 or 1970 .I did not KNOW how it was..... THE BEST STEELWORK I EVER HEARD ,then they told me it was BUDDY EMMONS. ------------------ |
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Roger Rettig Member Posts: 2979 |
posted 25 April 2001 10:26 AM
Ray Charles' album "The Volcanic Action of my Soul"....especially the 'rides' on 'Wichita Lineman' and 'I Feel so Bad'! How I wish I could hear that again (it's long deleted) - does anyone out in Forumland have it? |
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BobbeSeymour Member Posts: 5664 |
posted 25 April 2001 10:46 AM
Yes,I have it! It's in two parts. 50% off,perfect cuts on both sides. |
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Ernie Renn Member Posts: 2657 |
posted 25 April 2001 12:50 PM
JB; I believe that the Moog on the John Sebatian album was Bobby Emmons. He's a session piano player. I'm not putting it past Buddy to play keys for a session, but I think it was Bobby. Bobbe; Yeah, I heard. BTW: he first time I heard Buddy play an instrumental was Rose City Chimes on ET's Midnight Jamboree album. Good thing that Buddy was pictured on the front of the record. At the time I didn't even know what a steel guitar was. [This message was edited by Ernie Renn on 25 April 2001 at 12:56 PM.] |
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Jason Powers Member Posts: 241 |
posted 25 April 2001 01:24 PM
Its hard to pinpoint exactly the first time I ever heard Buddy, probably on the version of "Walking The Floor Over You" where at the break ET says "Aw, Billy Byrd now, you too Buddy" and they harmonize with each other. Later on I became really into the stuff he did with Ray Price. Jason |
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Joe Casey Member Posts: 3402 |
posted 25 April 2001 01:44 PM
I don't remember the first time but I do remember the last time..15 minutes ago playing on a Step one CD backing up Ray Price and Faron Young..great stuff on this out of circulation CD.Now I am putting on "Swinging by request". ------------------ |
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Rick Mc Donald unregistered Posts: 3402 |
posted 25 April 2001 02:37 PM
Actually I havent yet.  I'm sure I have heard him on records unknowingly BUT I havent heard him play yet where I knew dern well it was Buddy Emmons playing. Im going to try to order some CD's this week. Rick |
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Donny Hinson Member Posts: 9192 |
posted 25 April 2001 03:33 PM
It's hard to say when I first heard him, since he didn't get mentioned much by anybody but ET. But I do remember the first record of his that I bought...Steel Guitar Jazz. But here's the rest of that story... The year was 1963, and back in those days, there were no tapes (except reel-to-reel) and all recordings were either 45's or 12" albums. Now in those days, your music stores sold records. I wandered into a local music store (Fred Walker's...Baltimore's largest) and perused the selection of albums. As I was just getting into the steel guitar, this was the ONLY place you could hope to find a steel guitar album. Well, I looked the store over, and they only had 2 pedal steel guitar albums. Also, back in the "old days", all the big record retailers had "listening booths". These were small glassed-in rooms with a small phono, where you could listen to your selections BEFORE you bought them (no "shrink wrap" in those days either!) But, I digress. Anyway, the two albums I found were Steel Guitar Jazz by "Buddie Emmons" (who knew this was the same guy that had played with Dickens and ET?) and Steel Guitar Spectacular by Speedy West. I listened to both. Speedy's album had a couple of nice songs, but the rest had too many novelty "wheeeo" glisses for my taste (kinda like the "Looney Toons" stuff). But this "Emmons" record...HOLY CRISCO!!! These were REAL jazz songs, and the dude could play 'em! I listened to "Anytime", and then "Oleo"...I was hooked. Well, I only had enough money for one album, so I took the Emmons album home, and have marvelled at it ever since (I mean, who hasn't?). Later that year, I did buy the Speedy West album, and then got another one (same album) on Christmas...2 Speedy's, one Buddy. Yeah, I bought the album with the @$$-backwards Multi-Chord photo (the producers REALLY screwed up there!) And I often wondered just how many mistakes were made in the packaging of this landmark album. The liner notes mention the song "I Can't Stop Loving You", but it's not on the album...I wonder if it was recorded and never released? (Only Buddy can answer that one.) They did get one thing right on the jacket, though... quote: Yeah, they got THAT part right...for sure! |
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John P.Phillips Member Posts: 1621 |
posted 25 April 2001 04:21 PM
I'm not sure but I think it was in the E.T. & the Troubadors era.  ------------------ |
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Pete Burak Member Posts: 2750 |
posted 25 April 2001 04:31 PM
I sat in the front row at Jeffs school in the summer of '82 and listened to Buddy play a set. I'm sure I heard him on the radio before that but this was the first real impact. After that show both Jeff and Buddy autographed my steel with an engraving pen. It was very cool! Actually it was very hot. The power went out on Jeffs block and there was no AC for a while before the set. I recently found the pictures from that night but I can't find the tape I made of the set  .-pb |
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chas smith Member Posts: 3168 |
posted 25 April 2001 05:47 PM
I was at one of those also, and quite frankly, it changed my life. I also have a picture of him playing my 'no-Bud'. |
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Larry Behm Member Posts: 1686 |
posted 25 April 2001 06:19 PM
The first time I saw Buddy was in St Louis in the late seventies. He played Exodus, when he stopped playing the crowd just sat there. Pretty soon they realized just what they had heard and then brought the house down. It knock me right out. Red Rhodes had tears in his eyes. I will never forget it. That was real tone to the bone. Larry Behm |
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BobbeSeymour Member Posts: 5664 |
posted 25 April 2001 08:29 PM
1956,Triple neck Bigsby,Norfolk VA. Jimmy Dickins road show,It was incredible!Buddy,Joel Price,Howard Roten,Jimmy Capps,Wow! Buddie(correct spelling at that time) was either 17 or 18,he had just replaced Walter Hains,also 3 neck bigsby. Buddy NEVER did play badly. Bobbe Seymour (The unofficial buddy Emmons website.) |
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Danny Spinks Member Posts: 30 |
posted 25 April 2001 10:17 PM
The first time I knowingly heard Buddy was on WSM radio the night "Tater" introduced him as the new member of the "Country Boys". I can't remember if it was the "Friday Night Frolics" or the "Grand Ole Opry". I saw him in person a short time after that on a package show near where I lived. I know it was a short time because the picture I bought of "Tater" and the "Country Boys" still had Walter Haynes on it. After the show, I got an autograph and a peek at what was behind the "panel" of the Bigsby triple neck. |
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Bill Cunningham Member Posts: 381 |
posted 26 April 2001 03:32 AM
Black Album and Steel Guitar Jazz. 1973 when I was starting. Live at Country Green in Stone Mtn. Ga. 1981 at the show Bob Farlow recently posted on. In the early 70's there was the TV show "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman." Mary K. Place played a singer in a club on the show. I remember them introducing the band in the club scene. The steel player was introduced as Eddy Bummons. Could it have been..... ?Buddy please let us know if you remember. Thanks, ------------------ |
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Smiley Roberts Member Posts: 4424 |
posted 26 April 2001 06:28 AM
RE:Eddy Bummons That's HILARIOUS!! I love it.  ------------------ [This message was edited by Smiley Roberts on 26 April 2001 at 06:30 AM.] |
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RickRichtmyer Member Posts: 2522 |
posted 26 April 2001 10:19 AM
As far as on record goes, I'm not sure. It could have been on Judy Collins' Someday Soon, but I'm not sure. The Black Album certainly made a heavy duty impression in my early days. The first time I heard him live was well-documented. It was in, I believe, 1977 at the ISGC and a three-record set came out of that performance. It was a highlight of my life. Really! ------------------ |
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VERNON PRIDDY Member Posts: 301 |
posted 26 April 2001 10:57 AM
First Time I Saw Him Live Was At The Jeffarn Jam In 1981 Great Show. SONNY. ------------------ |
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Buddy Emmons Member Posts: 1403 |
posted 26 April 2001 11:39 AM
Bill, I remember the Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman show very well as I was a big fan. I didn't get to see the Eddy Bummons episode but was told about it. Later, I had the pleasure of meeting Mary K. Place when she worked a spot on the Opry and we had some laughs over it. Thanks to everybody for the nice comments and to Bob Farlow and the response to his thread. I've been operating on four cylinders for a year or so but I'm keeping the faith and determined that things are going to get better. So far, things are looking up. And Frank… don't be shy about pestering me over a chord. I don't have the album at my house, but if I can get my memory to kick in, I'd be more than happy to try to remember the arrangement for you. [This message was edited by Buddy Emmons on 26 April 2001 at 11:40 AM.] |
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Gary Walker Member Posts: 1446 |
posted 26 April 2001 01:51 PM
Some time in the late 50s or 1960 I was driving down the road with the radio on and an Armed Forces broadcast came on with Ernest Tubb doing that particular show and Buddy played "When They Ring Those Golden Bells" and it almost made me cry and I thought that was one of the most beautiful things I had ever heard and then got to see him with Ray Price in Fresno CA when they were on the same billing as Johnny Cash(who I walked out on after Price was through). Bobby Bare was the opener and Buddy and the band played for Bobby, and then they came out in Cherokee Cowboys dress and after a few songs they debuted the new song soon to be released, "Night Life" and I was in such a daze after watching Buddy play, that I was in a fog for days. He paved the way for so much of what a lot of the pickers are doing today and that's why he is called the "Foremost" of the steel. As the first 4 minute mile indoors was broken by Roger Bannister, the unlimited scope of the steel was set by Buddy, "The Man", thanks Buddy for these last 40+ years of touching our hearts and proving that the impossible can be done by those who are able to reach for the stars, Gary [This message was edited by Gary Walker on 26 April 2001 at 04:05 PM.] |
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Jim McGinnis Member Posts: 83 |
posted 26 April 2001 07:33 PM
I first saw Buddy in Independence Kans at the Westernaire Club in 1966 or 67. He was playing behind Claude Gray who had a hit "I never had the one that I wanted" that I understand Buddy cut and he talked Buddy into going on the road with him. I remember asking Buddy if he would play an instrumental and he was so gracious and asked what tune I wanted to hear. My soon to be Legal mind went blank and all I could think of was Steel Guitar Rag. He played it flawlessly and thanked me for my request. I to am a lifelong devoted fan and have everything he has ever recorded. I am curious how many out there have tried to play Rasin the Dickens. I have been trying to play the ending for 30 years. The mans execution is amazing and you can tell he is a perfectionist. |
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Steven Welborn Member Posts: 666 |
posted 26 April 2001 09:04 PM
Drove to St. Louise convention from San Fransisco with a bass player in the C+W band i just joined as lead guitarist. might've been 1985 give or take a year. He , Andy De Paul, was a steel fanatic and wrote articles for T. Bradshaw's Steel Guitar mag. I knew nothing about steel then. I never forgot hearing Buddy Emmons play for the first time, or Jimmy Day either for that matter. BE was exitement and goose bumps. JD was tear jerking. Didnt seriously take steel up till years later, but to this day i carry those perfomances deep inside as inspirations and ideals to stive for. [This message was edited by Steven Welborn on 26 April 2001 at 09:58 PM.] |
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Dan Tyack Member Posts: 3552 |
posted 26 April 2001 09:49 PM
I'm sure the first song I heard Buddy on was Someday Soon. It made no impact on me because since I have never been a Judy Collins fan, I'm sure I turned the station as soon as she started singing. The first album that I listened to was the Ray Price 'Touch Your Heart' release, which I picked up for $.99 at a used store in San Jose. THe next was the Black Album. Those two convinced me to take up the pedal steel. The first time I heard Buddy play was at the Deman's Den in Nashville, when he sat in on bass when I was playing steel. I have no idea how he sounded on bass, but it has to be a lot better than I sounded. The first time I heard him on steel was a few months later at the Den, with him sitting in on steel. He played Stomping at the Savoy, and his attitude, sound and phrasing on that night is still my benchmark for pedal steel. ------------------ |
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Mike Cass Member Posts: 546 |
posted 27 April 2001 01:37 AM
hi... K.O.L.H...(King Of the Leg Humpers) here...'n proud of it !! LOL!!...anyways...the first time I heard Buddy was on the E.T.recording of "Rainbow at Midnight"..I was about 6 or 7 ....sorry E...lol! first time I saw him.... Minnesota State Fair...'65 or '66. Ray Price & THE Cherokee Cowboys....!!!! ...Buddy,Ray,Johnny Bush? i think...Pete Wade?..Darrell McCall?...Shorty Lavender?..... needles to say ...I saw nothin but Ray...'n Buddy...Playin his A** off...& lookin like he was havin more fun that the law should allow....!!!..what a band!!!! changed my life forever .... the show at The Flame Club that night wasnt too bad either... got in with my folks.... heard 'Touch My Heart" live ...twice in one day....more than I could handle...stayed up as late as i could when we got home...tryin to get that intro...still tryin...MC |
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frank rogers Member Posts: 711 |
posted 27 April 2001 06:08 AM
Growing up in a family of musicians and having a Father who was a huge E.T. fan, Buddy Emmons was a "household" name in our family as long as I can remember (mid 1950's). As others my first real memory of "E" as a player was on Rose City Chimes". Many years later (early 70's) I had the incredible privlege of working as a bass player on several dates with Buddy and Jimmy Bryant, what a huge inspiration this was to me. Like others I was totally knocked out by Buddy's playing but almost as important was the impression he left on me as being a very sincere individual. Buddy's tone and technique are undeniably benchmarks that all steelers coming after him would be judged by. Buddy, you are an international treasure. Thanks so much for the inspiration. |
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Anders Brundell Member Posts: 493 |
posted 28 April 2001 01:56 PM
I heard Buddy some 20+ years ago on a sound check in Gothenburg, Sweden, during one of those big annual country shows that hit several european states for a number of years back then. This was before I played steel myself, and I really didn´t know much about it. I remember that I thought that it had to function like a keyed instrument - if it´s in tune and you hit the right key, then the note will come out exactly right - you sort of can´t play wrong on such an instrument. That´s how exact he played! Also consider that I was busy working, looking for people and taking pictures at the same time (I´m a journalist) so Byddy´s playing even managed to go right into a stone head, so to speak. His playing qualities (properties) went into my busy head even though I wasn´t a musician, but a busy journalist/photographer, who happened to be there at the time. That makes me think that there is something truly magical in well performed music. |
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Grady Dodson Member Posts: 39 |
posted 29 April 2001 08:42 AM
I first heard Buddy in Oct or Nov 1980. one Friday Night a friend took me to Jeff Newmans School of Music.As we got out of the car I heard the most beautiful music.It was Buddy playing Jazz.I had never heard that on steel before.He then started playing Ray Price songs on E-9th.I knew then that he was the Master Steel Guitarist.I used to go up to Newmans 5 or 6 times a month after that just to see and hear the best. |
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Lem Smith Member Posts: 1501 |
posted 29 April 2001 09:27 PM
I can't remember the first time that I heard Mr. Emmons, but I do remember the second time I "seen" him play. It was on an old country music show, which I believe was called "That good ole' Nashville music" or something close to that. He did the intro to Darrell McCall's song, "Daddy's Dreams" and did it on an E-bow. That has to be the most gorgeous sound I've ever heard. I started out on pedal steel in 1979, and I'm pretty sure that this was somewhere very close to that. The first time I got to see him play live was at a steel show in Nashville in 1979, and if I remember correctly, he played a rosewood Emmons, which had the factory pickup on the C6th neck and he debuted the new Bill Lawrence pickup on the front...I don't remember the pickup model though. And I guess my claim to fame happened the second time I saw Buddy live, at Cullman Alabama at a steel show there, which was somewhere I think in the middle/earlier 80's. Someone wanted Buddy's copedant, and he didn't have a pen, so I "loaned" him mine... hey Buddy, if you're through with it, I'd like to have the pen back. Donna Hammitt, who was just a young teenager at the time also played that show. She played flawless as well. I remember the guy who played between her set, and Buddy's set, making the comment about being in a high pressure situation. Talk about an understatement!!!!!!! Sorry for such a long post... [This message was edited by Lem Smith on 29 April 2001 at 09:30 PM.] |
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WAYNE TYLER Member Posts: 148 |
posted 30 April 2001 10:51 AM
The first time I saw Buddy Emmons was 1957, at Sunset Park in West Grove Pa. He was with Jimmie Dickens and The Country Boys. He was playing A Bigsby pedal steel. The band was awesome and from that day on I knew I wanted to play pedal steel guitar and have been one of his biggest fans and admirers. I have seen Buddy on more than one ocassion and for any pedal steel guitarist it's a opportunity you don't want to miss. |
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Bill Myrick Member Posts: 1007 |
posted 01 May 2001 07:10 PM
What would the year have been Buddy --maybe 54 or 55 ? Texas Troubadours,flat bed trailer, Audrain County Fair, Mexico, Mo. got rained out big time about half way through . *S* |
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scott murray Member Posts: 751 |
posted 03 May 2001 10:49 AM
Probably a tune off a record I picked up called 'Steel Guitar Hall of Fame' well before I started playing... "La Golondrina" or something. Beautiful. When I did start out on steel, a friend gave me the 'Redneck Jazz Explosion' album. I was not familiar with Buddy or Danny Gatton at the time. I was obsessed with "Danny Boy" and later with Buddy's instrumental "Wichita Lineman". And a whole lot more since then! And I gotta say "At E's" is about the coolest song EVER. I got some horn playin' friends that I'm gonna get to arrange it for horns. It's a standard as far as I'm concerned. THANK YOU BUDDY EMMONS!!! |
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Buddy Buddy Member Posts: 271 |
posted 03 May 2001 07:54 PM
Sure do. He was standing in front of his axe,playing with his hands behind his back. Those were the Tater days. "Little" Buddy. |
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Bill Hamner Member Posts: 258 |
posted 04 May 2001 01:09 AM
My first time to see Buddy play was in the mid '50's .They were taping a Dickens show and Spider Wilson told me if I wanted to see something that would put my eyes out to come with him and watch this steel player dude trio with their twin guitars and look back at them all the way through the number without missing a lick. The best invite I ever had!Thanks Spider and thank you Buddy. I guess I should thank Tater for not running me out of there. That was truly history in the making! Bill Hamner |
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Frank Freniere Member Posts: 214 |
posted 06 May 2001 09:34 AM
Do I remember? I'll never forget it, seared indelibly into my memory & soul. It was discovering that something was better than you dared hoped it would be. 1981 ISGC, I think, the year Buddy was inducted. He opened Friday night, Phil Baugh and the band did a couple of pop-ish numbers (singing "We're In This Love Together"). Then The Maestro announces, "This is for all you people that think the steel guitar is just a jazz instrument." Mild laughter ripples thru the audience. Then he launches into "Every Time You Touch Me, I Get High." Goosebumps. Thanks, Buddy. |
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