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Jerry Hayes Member From: Virginia Beach, Va. |
posted 05 October 2006 08:22 AM
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We brought back some memories with another post of old LA and SoCal steel players. Here's some more from the old days. I'll try to list their instrument of choice if I can remember them........JH in Va. Porky Freeman....lead guitar That's just some of 'em from the old days, I played with some of 'em and knew some of 'em and didn't know some of 'em. How 'bout yours?.........JH in Va. ------------------ |
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Skip Edwards Member From: LA,CA |
posted 05 October 2006 09:32 AM
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I see Archie Francis from time to time. He still plays around sounds as good as ever. What about Gene Hoover? He played gtr with Lynn Anderson in the early 70's, and lived in Glendale. Anybody know what's up with him? [This message was edited by Skip Edwards on 05 October 2006 at 09:35 AM.] I may be mistaken, but I believe Jerry Inman passed away a few years ago. [This message was edited by Skip Edwards on 05 October 2006 at 10:23 AM.] [This message was edited by Skip Edwards on 05 October 2006 at 10:24 AM.] |
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Dave Zirbel Member From: Sebastopol, CA USA |
posted 05 October 2006 10:05 AM
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I was born in 1963 so I don't know any of these guys but I took guitar lessons from a guy named Mort Marker. He recorded with Gary Puckett, the Seeds and even Elvis Presley. Does anyone remember him? He lived in the Glendora hills. Also, the only other person I know that maybe one of you knows owned a guitar shop in Glendora. His name is Stan West. He played a little steel but mostly slide guitar and he also played sax and other instruments. [This message was edited by Dave Zirbel on 05 October 2006 at 10:16 AM.] [This message was edited by Dave Zirbel on 05 October 2006 at 10:17 AM.] |
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Petr Vitous Member From: Czech Republic |
posted 05 October 2006 10:15 AM
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Delaney Bramlett is ever lasting for composing the "Never Ending Song Of Love". |
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Mike Perlowin Member From: Los Angeles CA |
posted 06 October 2006 02:35 AM
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Stan West is a REALLY good player. I did a really weird gig with him during the Urban CowboY Craze. Stan had a very tight well rehearsed 4 piece band. These guys really had it together and absolutely did not need a 5th player, but the club owner insisted that he wanted to see 5 musicians on stage, so I was hired to stand there with my tele and pretend to play. I turned the volume on my guitar and amp all the way down and went through the motions all night without ever actually playing. Easiest gig I ever did.
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Herb Steiner Member From: Cedar Valley, Travis County TX |
posted 06 October 2006 05:16 AM
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Yeah, buddy! I played with a bunch of those guys. My good friend and former boss Jimmy Lawton lives in Belgium, as he has for about 30 years. I hear from him several times a year. In his band during my tenure were Ed Ponder, drums; Richard Trees, bass; Wade Wilson, drums; and Monte Paul, drums. I hear from Monte a few times a year as well. Boomer and I had a band with Michael Martin Murphey in those days also. Boom lives in N'ville and occasionally comes around the Forum. The late Hoss Huffman was a great guitarist and regular at the Imperial Inn jam sessions. More later... I gotta get on the road right now. ------------------ |
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Jerry Hayes Member From: Virginia Beach, Va. |
posted 07 October 2006 07:58 AM
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Here's a few more of the old drummers..... Tony Amico (played with Wynn Stewart) ------------------ [This message was edited by Jerry Hayes on 07 October 2006 at 08:01 AM.] |
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Brandin Member From: Newport Beach CA. USA |
posted 07 October 2006 12:55 PM
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Hey Jerry, do you remember, Amil Presson, and his band "The Presstones"? How about the great and lovable singing bass player Tommy Michell, or guitar/singer Jimmy Lester? Oh, and the great Jerry Cole! There was also band leader/singer/DJ Paul Bowman (sorry if that's not the correct spelling). GB |
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Stu Schulman Member From: anchorage,alaska |
posted 07 October 2006 05:15 PM
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I played with Delaney Bramlett for about five years,I called him about 3 months ago and he was in the hospital not feeling to well,I hope that he's a little better.I played on a Billy Webb single...That's a funny guy,is that the same Billy Webb who's on the forum? |
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Joe Casey Member From: Weeki Wachee .Springs FL (population.9) |
posted 07 October 2006 07:24 PM
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Hey Jerry ,You cracked me up on Ed Bacon. You were right on though. |
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Skip Edwards Member From: LA,CA |
posted 07 October 2006 08:24 PM
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Last I heard, Jerry Cole moved to South Carolina. Don Babb is still around.... a friend of mine saw him just the other day. [This message was edited by Skip Edwards on 07 October 2006 at 08:24 PM.] |
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Jerry Hayes Member From: Virginia Beach, Va. |
posted 09 October 2006 07:08 AM
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Brandin.......how could I have forgot those guys.... Amil Presson, a very old friend of mine who I met in the sixties. I built a double neck guitar one time and sold it to Amil who cut it in two to make an experimental guitar with pedals (cable type) He was still active when I left SoCal in Oct. of '85...... Jimmy Lester.....One of my very best friends from the old days. We used to meet for breakfast almost every night after our gigs at a restaurant next to Shire's in Stanton, Ca. I saw Jimmy and picked with him and Clarke Rohn when I went on vacation in SoCal about a year ago. Back when we were poor, Jimmy and I wanted to put Keith/Scruggs banjo tuners on the low E strings of our Gibsons so we bought a set of them from Ron LeGrande's Music Store in Garden Grove and took one apiece. I still have mine but Jimmy's guitar was stolen out of his van........ Jerry Cole.....One of the finest guitarists/vocalists to ever come out of Southern California but also one of the most disliked and misunderstood. He had the notorious "Little Man's Syndrome" to the max. Jerry worked with us for about a year when I was at Bonnie Price's Foothill Club. For some unknown reason he and I hit it off very well and even socialized away from the club on occasion. We used to dress in three piece suits while the rest of the band did their usual casual thing. Billy Mize loved it. We had some trick guitar things worked out which came off pretty cool. Jerry also hired me for some private things and a session or two. He's one of my favorite guitarists of the era and could play with the best of 'em. Also, he was the staff guitarist in the band in the Sonny & Cher & Cher TV shows........ Here's another heavy weight I forgot to mention.......DALE BENNETT How could I have forgotten to mention him. Dale was one of the first guys I saw playing in the sixties when he was at the Red Barrel in Hawaiian Garden. A great bass player & vocalist to say the least. Dale left LA to work with Ray Price among others and then settled later in Oklahoma City, opened his own bar and played around that part of the country for a long while. Dale, if you see this, you must be gettin' pretty old by now, eh? I know I am, LOL.......JH in Va. ------------------ |
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HowardR Member From: N.Y.C.,N.Y. |
posted 09 October 2006 01:02 PM
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The late JB Crabtree.....steel player & dobro for Sweethearts of The Rodeo. I used to travel everywhere to see him play. Well, the ladies that fronted the group were pretty lovely.....but JB, man, he would tear up those strings. Made a forever impression on me. |
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Chuck Cusimano Member From: Weatherford, Texas, USA |
posted 09 October 2006 02:08 PM
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This is sort of like a similar, earlier post. When I was in the Navy, and the ship (USS NAVASOTA) was in the States, our home port was LONG BEACH. That's where I met, Sandy Friend, Haskel May, Tex Purier, Carl Walden, Yar Kumar,( and Sharon) and countless others down by the "srtip" (Hollywood on the Pike, and The Panama room) Further up the street, I met Billy Mize, Sandy (Italian Drumer), Dee Ford, And correct me if I'm Wrong, but Jerry, were you working with Billy Mize at the Foothill club back 1968-1972? I believe Jim Bob Sedgwick was also, and a piano player named Billy Meyers. Then at Georges Roundup, I met one of the finest people in the business, Bobby Boyd. (STEEL GUITAR) He was right up there with Billy Mize, who showed me some of the finest hospitality I ever recieved (for Professional musicians, and I have met MOST of 'em.) |
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Herb Steiner Member From: Cedar Valley, Travis County TX |
posted 09 October 2006 05:11 PM
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Found a very neat website, because of this thread. I didn't know that my old friend Stu Schulman played with Delaney Bramlett. I was a fan of Delaney's since the early 60's, when he played bass in Gene Davis and the Star Routers, featured on Cal's Corral. Then with the Shindogs. Then Delaney and Bonnie. Et al. So go to http://www.delaneybramlett.com , and click on "Interview." This is a great, fascinating, informative, and quite long, phone interview with a really down-home, sincere man who's been around the horn in the music biz more times than you can count. ------------------ |
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Jerry Hayes Member From: Virginia Beach, Va. |
posted 10 October 2006 06:56 AM
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Chuck C....That period (68-72) was probably Skeeter Stultz on steel as I was at the Swizzle Stik in Huntington Beach or Shire's in Stanton. Jim Bob was probably on lead and vocals during that time though! I went to the Foothill the first time in '78. Haskell May.....I remember once in the early sixties I got a call to do a Monday night fill in at the "Hollywood on the Pike". I had my guitar in the pawn shop at the time so whoever called me said I could just use Haskell's guitar as he was off that night. I said OK and it turned out to be one of the longest nights of my life! His Strat had the heaviest strings and highest action of any guitar I'd ever played in my life. My fingers were almost bleeding when the night ended. What was fun though was that it was my job to step on this button on the floor each time a woman in a dress went in or out of the bathroom. There were holes in the floor and air would shoot out of them and blow the ladies dresses up. I kinda liked that as I was young and perverted (maybe I still am!) Al Brown.........very good drummer and old friend. I first met Al through a friend of mine (bassist Lloyd Carlson) who lived in the same apartment complex as Al. At the time Al was working with Al Perry (Petty) at the Breakers Hotel in Long Beach. They had a real "Power Trio" to say the least. Al Petty on lead, steel, and sometimes bass, Al Brown on drums, and pianist Joe Pope who played a Fender key bass setting on top of his piano. He was also blind by the way but you'd never know it. They had the best PA sound I'd ever heard at that time. You could go to any PA speaker in the club and it sounded like a mixed recording coming out of it........JH in Va. ------------------ |
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daynawills Member From: Sacramento, CA |
posted 10 October 2006 11:47 PM
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I knew quite a few of these guys and gal, Judy Lee, the lady of the pantaloons. I didn't meet Billy Armstrong until I went to the Western Swing Society of Seattle where he was sitting in with Johnny Wakely. I was acquainted with Don Babbs because he was plas with Al Bruno. I used a drummer in Vegas whom I met in SoCal at the Imperial Inn named Wes Hunsinger (I think, Hunsinger) I worked with a great guitarist Mike Mccavit, who knew a gazillion chords and could play anything if he had ever heard it, even once. And then there was Chucky Cheese, aka Chuck Hanning, who played bass and sang with us at the Hillside Club in Signal Hill, around the corner from the Foothill. (circa 84-88)Joe Cocker did his "Unchain My Heart" video at the Hillside because it was cheaper there to get a permit than in Long Beach. I e mail Lou Martin now and then. I used to sit in with Sammy Masters. I liked his lead man Ray Mahaffey. This was a nice thread and reminded of some folks I hadn't thought of in some time. Does anyone remember an older lady named Weeda who was always in the clubs? Seems like she wanted to be a booking agent....sweet gal. |
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David Wright Member From: Modesto .Ca USA. |
posted 11 October 2006 12:51 AM
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I worked with Billy Armstrong in Merced , ca in 1974.... |
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Jerry Hayes Member From: Virginia Beach, Va. |
posted 11 October 2006 07:38 AM
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Hey Dayna, I remember some of those folks you mentioned. Ray Mahaffey, good guitarist and a nice guy. He was a neigbor of mine in Garden Grove and our daughters went to school together. I did a 3 or 4 month stint on steel with Sammy when Ray was playing guitar. Sad but Ray died a while back. Wes Hunsinger, that's a very familiar name but I can't remember anything about hime. I sat in with Sammy's band when I went to Calif. last year with Monte Paul, Carl Walden, Sammy, & Billy Tonneson. Dayna, you remember John Herzog (drummer) don't you? I always liked his Hebrew version of "Put Another Log on the Fire" done in a minor key. I have a tape of a Monday night at the Foothill with John on drums. Dob Babb? Al Bruno told me that Don was in very bad health but I haven't heard anything lately.....JH in Va. ------------------ |
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Jim Bob Sedgwick Member From: Clinton, Missouri USA |
posted 16 October 2006 07:01 PM
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Did anybody know, Ron Chandler? He played with us at the Foothill club for about 6 months. He was a hoot and a good piano player. He would grab Dee Ford's fiddle, put on a white hat and get a cigar and strut around looking just like Bob Wills. He could not play a lick on the fiddle. He would play the two lead in licks on a Ray Price tune, then dump it off on any other lead instrument that would take it before the crowd could discern he could not play fiddle at all. I think we had way too much fun back then. He disguised his voice one day and called me on the phone. He stated that he was Lincoln Taylor Jones from local 353. He was inquiring as to why we had no black players in our band. Then he was complaining that the piano player never played on the black keys. He threatened to send a black saxophone player down and the union would require that we hire him. If we didn't, he threatened to have the Union picket the club. The man was a total idiot, but fun to be around. BTW this was just after the Watts Riots in 1965. |
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Gene H. Brown Member From: Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada |
posted 16 October 2006 11:18 PM
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Anyone know a steel picker by the name of Billy Wayne Hamilton? Fine Picker! |
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Doyle Weigold Member From: CColumbia City, IN, USA |
posted 17 October 2006 05:48 PM
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Gene, you sure brought up a name from my past. I know Billy Wayne Hamilton from working in the Fort Wayne, Indiana area. That had to be late 50's-early 60's. I have'nt heard a thing about him since he left this area. I was on and off the road at that time, and I heard he went out there, but don't remember which way he headed. If you have any information on him I would appreciate hearing from him, Doyle |
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Herb Steiner Member From: Cedar Valley, Travis County TX |
posted 18 October 2006 08:01 AM
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Ron Still, bass... Charlie Call, frontman/guitar... Ted Lessler, drums... Carmine Psardo, guitar... Marvin Cave, bass... Danny Holder, guitar... Norm and Glen Castner (Cass), guitars... Reb Allen, bass and excessive drinking... Sammy Goldstein, drums... Dave Ziegler, steel... more to come as the white matter returns to gray. ------------------ |
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Jerry Hayes Member From: Virginia Beach, Va. |
posted 18 October 2006 08:15 AM
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Herb, thanks for adding those guys, I remember a few of em..... Marvin Cave....very good bass player and vocalist. He moved to Nashville to make it big but unfortunately, never did. I always thought he looked just like most pictures of Jesus that you see in churches.... Danny Holder....Excellent lead guitarist who played a 335 style Gibson with Keith/Scruggs banjo tuners on all six strings. Also played fingerstyle and was a good 'un for sure. I'll not mention his name but Danny left LA with a guitar which belonged to a friend of mine and never paid him for it.....I wonder if he remembers that! Reb Allen.....He was an LA Policeman who did country music on the side. When I was playing at the Paddock in Los Alamitos with the Johnny McKnight band he filled in for us a few times when Johnny was off. Dave Ziegler.....He was actually the first guy I ever saw who played a Universal Tuning. He had an old MSA and later a Rusler 12 string steel. What was unique was the Dave tuned to D9/A6 instead of the usual and his "chromatic strings" were the same as an E9 with the D# on the outside and the F# on the 2nd string. He said he used it a lot more so he swapped positions. He played a stint with Rusty Draper the pop country star. Fellow Forumite Mike Perlowin is a friend and former student of Dave's and still keeps in touch with him. Dave and I always got along good and I had/have a great respect for his talent and himself as a person, a very selfless guy.............JH in Va. ------------------ [This message was edited by Jerry Hayes on 18 October 2006 at 08:16 AM.] |
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Skip Edwards Member From: LA,CA |
posted 18 October 2006 08:44 AM
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I see Carmine Psardo every now & then. He's got an upholstery business, and makes some great amp and steel covers, as well as all other kinds of stuff. I'm pretty sure he still plays a bit. |
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Fred Jack Member From: Bay City Texas |
posted 18 October 2006 08:54 AM
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AAAAannnd, Ralph Mooney, Red Rhodes,Tom Brumley,Don Holomon, Earl Ball,James Burton, Eddie Drake, Jimmy Bryant.Then there was that other kid,uuuhh Jay dee somethin er other.The great jam sessions every Monday nite at the Rag Doll on Lankershim and Victory.Where has all the good times gone?Then you might stumble in to Geo's Roundup and see Paycheck playing Moon's steel.Then there was Red Wooton.We haven't even got the list started yet.Rue Barclay,Jr Nichols,Harold Hensley ... I gotta take a break, I'm over taxing my thinker.Along with Tony and Larry Booth. [This message was edited by Fred Jack on 18 October 2006 at 08:55 AM.] |
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Jim Baron Member From: Madera, Ca. |
posted 18 October 2006 03:02 PM
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Billy Wayne Hamilton has been in the Fresno, Ca area for awhile. You can reach him at 559-431-8211. Jim |
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Doyle Weigold Member From: CColumbia City, IN, USA |
posted 18 October 2006 06:00 PM
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Thanks Jim, I apprectate the e-mail. I'll be trying to get ahold of him. Doyle |
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Herb Steiner Member From: Cedar Valley, Travis County TX |
posted 18 October 2006 06:20 PM
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I'm surprised at myself and others that my good friend and former boss, the late and great Garland Frady hasn't been mentioned. Garland was a fine songwriter. Michael Nesmith recorded an album on Garland for his short-lived Countryside label, then GF moved to Nashville and grew his hair to down the center of his back. Garland finally moved back home to GA, living just a little ways from Johnny Meeks, "Jumpin' Johnny Meeks" of rockabilly fame. We got back in touch with each other and swapped our CD's. Sadly, Garland developed cancer and passed away several years ago. He was a good'un. And who amongst us can forget Tom and Ted, the LeGarde Twins from Australia? They were the guys that introduced me to Johnny Meeks. They moved to Nashville, and God knows what happened then. They were the only country music act I recall that used a bullwhip in their shows. Also, Tommy Brooks, a great singer. His real name was Holbrooks. I worked the Nashville Nevada Club with Tommy. And one of my regular jobs, filling in for Noel Boggs, was playing with Doye O'Dell at the Mustang Club on Alvarado, across from MacArthur Park. And how 'bout Cody Bearpaw, the Indian singer? I only worked a couple dates with him, but Boomer Castleman has many Cody Bearpaw stories, I know. Okay, I'm getting worked up... hang on. ------------------ [This message was edited by Herb Steiner on 18 October 2006 at 06:22 PM.] |
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David Wright Member From: Modesto .Ca USA. |
posted 18 October 2006 06:56 PM
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As read thought all this , one name I haven;t sceen or missed it is a Great Guitar Player , Phil Baugh... he left So Ca in the early 70's where me moved to Dallas, and thats where I met him, I was working on a Sat at MSA, he came in to guy some strings, I got to know Phil very well, and he teamed up with Maurice to record some albums..and worked around Dallas, We at M.S.A. then built him the Pedals for his guitar... what a great player, and the nicest guy you'll ever meet.. he left Dallas and ended up in Nashville, and the rest is history... He and the big E teamed up ...miss him, use to play cards at his house once a week, even got snowed in once at his house game....))) |
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Fred Jack Member From: Bay City Texas |
posted 18 October 2006 07:44 PM
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David, I forgot to mention Phil.You're right about him.I met him about 1960-61 while he was working with Vern Stovall at the Blue Room.LaPuente?? |
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Jerry Hayes Member From: Virginia Beach, Va. |
posted 19 October 2006 02:27 AM
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I just heard that the great Lou Martin who played lead guitar for Jack Tucker & Al Petty among others has passed away in his sleep. I'm posting about it on "Extended Family".........JH in Va. ------------------ |
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Dale Bennett Member From: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA |
posted 19 October 2006 09:31 AM
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Maybe I missed it but Clarance White was a favorite of mine. He used to come to our jam sessions at the Imperial Inn when Bruno, Archie, Clyde and I were there before I left in 70. db |
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Herb Steiner Member From: Cedar Valley, Travis County TX |
posted 19 October 2006 10:10 AM
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Dale Did we ever play together and the Imp. and I forgot about it? I started going to the Imperial Inn in 1970. Clarence and I picked there a few times together, though the main guys I played with were Bruno and Hoss on guitars, Tony B. on bass, Archie F. or Danny (blond, forgot his last name) on drums, and Roscoe on keyboards. Lynn Frazier and I had a twin steel jam set there one night that was totally great fun. ------------------ |
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Herbie Meeks Member From: Arkansas, USA |
posted 19 October 2006 10:41 AM
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Ok, I know I'm as OLD AS DIRT, and don't remember, until someone asks, Do you remember, Here is a few, that I worked with, or met,or jamed with, in the West Coast gang back in the Dinasour days. some made it to better things,and some great Musicians/Vocalist, that never got much recognition, John Sanborne, Steel and Lead Guitars, From Wasco, CA. Also does anyone remember ------------------ |
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Jerry Hayes Member From: Virginia Beach, Va. |
posted 19 October 2006 10:45 AM
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Hey Herb, sorry I forgot to mention Garland Frady in the initial listing. I knew Garland quite well but wasn't aware that he'd died. He'd do a fill in at the Foothill from time to time when Billy needed off. I have a CD of a "Monday Night at the Foothill" tape which I made. Garland did the Monday shift for a while and I played lead guitar for him. Sorry to hear about his passing....JH in Va. ------------------ |
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Thom Beeman Member From: California, USA |
posted 19 October 2006 11:53 AM
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Saw Billy Armstrong a couple months ago playing on a cruise ship out of Long Beach. Still put's on a fantastic show. Had fun reminising about some old friend's, even David Wright.  ------------------ Desert Rose S-10, NV112, Hilton pedal |
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Dale Bennett Member From: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA |
posted 19 October 2006 11:58 AM
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No Herb I don't think I ever had the pleasure of picking with you, but of course thoses after hour jams could become very foggy at time. But I did know of you. Clyde left first then I along with Phil Baugh left and went to work with Ray Price. Then Phil moved to Dallas and I settled in OKC. A couple of years ago I went to the Dallas jamboree with Al and I met you but you had so many folks aroung that I didn't get to visit with you. Maybe next march. db |
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Dale Bennett Member From: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA |
posted 19 October 2006 12:05 PM
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I guess you could tell I didn't proof read that last reply, but I'm sitting hear listening to the Jerry Inman and Glenn Garrison cd's that Jerry Hayes sent me. Thanks for the memories Jerry. db |
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Herb Steiner Member From: Cedar Valley, Travis County TX |
posted 19 October 2006 12:22 PM
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I spent a good deal of time at the Holiday #2 in El Monte, with Jimmy Lawton. We backed up a sh*tload of single artists, among them Billy Armstrong, Jerry Wallace ("Sh*tters and Boards"), Red Simpson, Gordon Terry, Jimmy Bryant, the aforementioned Cody Bearpaw, the Chaparral Bros., Jimmy Lawton's ex-wife Claire Courtney, the list goes on and on...  Hey, nobody's mentioned the Chaparral Bros.! Remember those boys? And there was the husband/wife team that worked forever at the Nashville West, John and Sharon Leighton. John passed away but Sharon kept pluggin' on. Hang on, I've got more... ------------------ |
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