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Topic: Winnie Winston. R.I.P.
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W Franco
Member From: silverdale,WA. USA
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posted 19 June 2005 09:05 AM
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I knew Winnie a little bit from the conventions. I always liked his choice of songs and was always great to chat with.Like many people I was more familiar with him through his book. What is so touching here for me is the way he is loved by others. Nothing but honest, sincere feelings of admiration. A great person and a great teacher. That will live forever. |
John P.Phillips
Member From: Brunswick, Ga. U.S.A.
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posted 19 June 2005 03:17 PM
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Just saw this thread BELATED CONDOLENCES.------------------
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Bob Putnam
Member From: Cherry Valley, IL
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posted 19 June 2005 07:20 PM
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Winnie, we all learned a lot from you. Thanks for your time with us. |
kbdrost
Member From: Barrington, IL
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posted 20 June 2005 08:05 PM
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I was just speaking with my son about this yesterday. We are (obviously) both a generation apart and both profoundly influenced by this man. We will miss you, Winnie.------------------
Ken Drost
steelcrazy after all these years
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Al Brisco
Member From: Toronto, ON Canada
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posted 21 June 2005 06:31 PM
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Due to my late reply, most everything has been said that I could say about Winnie.We had the pleasure of having him play at one of our Canadian steel conventions in the 1980's. I had the honour of having lunch with him last year at Scotty's convention, where he shared some of his health issues with me. Today I received another shipment of "Pedal Steel Guitar", now with a CD...having started with the floppy record, then a cassette. The steel guitar community has lost another legend.
Al Brisco |
Hank Davis
New Member From: Canada
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posted 24 June 2005 07:55 AM
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I just learned about Winnie's death yesterday from Bill Stafford. Didn't sleep much last night. Winnie and I go waaaay back. We went to High School together; hell, we went to elementary school together! We picked up the friendship again in 1974 when Winnie came to visit me in Canada. Almost immediately we started jamming and writing songs. We went to a recording studio the first two years he visited, then I built a small 4-track studio in my home and each year when he visited for days or weeks, we would spend dozens of hours recording. Sometimes we'd be up all night;
sometimes we'd get ideas during breakfast. One of us would think of a riff, then we'd decide to do it to the changes of, say, "Crazy
Arms." Usually we'd nail it in one take, then go back to breakfast. We did literally hundreds of recordings together until Winnie's
last visit around 1984. Someone mentioned "Steel Wool" and called it Winnie's only album. Happily, that's not true. There were
at least four or five that we did together. I recently downloaded most of those old tracks to CD and sent him over 100 titles. I
know he redid some of the tunes we had written on the CD he was working on at the time of his death. We always stayed in touch, sharing so much history as well as love of music. Winnie got me fixated on the steel, led me to discover Emmons, and even tried to convert me to homeopathy. Two out of three ain't bad. I am real, real sad today.
Hank Davis |
Bill Stafford
Member From: Gulfport,Ms. USA
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posted 24 June 2005 05:13 PM
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Hank, we are all saddened with Winnie's passing. He was, and will always be, one of our major treasures in our steel guitar world. I am so glad to see you were able to get on this forum so all the world herein could know of the great friendship and talents you two shared for many years. This forum is a great facility for keeping us all informed about our heroes. We all can now celebrate Winnie Winston's life and the legacy he so freely gave to us. Rest in peace Winnine Winston. Condolences to Hank Davis in the loss of his special friend. It was a very special honor for me to have had "The Winnie Winston Warm-Up Show" at the last International Steel Guitar Show in St. Louis. After playing my phase and then listening and watchin Winnie on his program, I knew I had to go back home and practice a lot more. Thanks for all you gave to me Winnie.Bill Stafford |
Richard Nelson
Member From: Drogheda, Louth, Ireland
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posted 01 July 2005 10:04 AM
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I had the pleasure of meeting Winnie in Wellington on 2 occasions. A gentleman. |
Richard Nelson
Member From: Drogheda, Louth, Ireland
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posted 01 July 2005 10:05 AM
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I had the pleasure of meeting Winnie in Wellington on 2 occasions. A gentleman. |
Bob Blair
Member From: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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posted 01 July 2005 11:01 AM
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Hey, is that THE Hank Davis, the Canadian Rockabilly Legend? Great to see you here, even under such sad circumstances.Hank, about a year or so ago Winnie and I chatted by e-mail about you, and in particular about the "Stomping at the Dead Moose" album, which I bought a copy of in Kingston in, like, the late 70's (had to have been before May '80 in any event). Over the years I suppose I received a ton of good advice from Winnie through his writing, but his last peice of advice to me was "hang onto that album!". I still have it...... We also chatted about his "Mariposa" appearance with George Essery and Sneezy Waters, which I was not fortunate enough to have seen. I wish I'd known Winnie personally - what an interesting man he was.[This message was edited by Bob Blair on 01 July 2005 at 11:04 AM.] |
Walter Stettner
Member From: Vienna, Austria
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posted 01 July 2005 11:25 AM
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Hank,Good to see you on the Forum, although these are sad days for all of us. I have an album titled "Cloud Dancing" in my collection which has some crazy originl tunes on it, with only you and Winnie playing, full of great musical ideas and skilled playing. I'll always keep it as a treasure! Kind Regards, Walter ------------------
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Wade Medlock
Member From: Clarkston, GA USA
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posted 01 July 2005 01:39 PM
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If you learned to play steel guitar without the help of Winnie Winston, you did it the hard way.RIP Winnie |
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