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Tommy Butler Member From: Nashville, TN, USA |
posted 02 August 2004 03:08 PM
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I was listening to the album Bobbe Seymour & Jimmy Day did together before Jimmy died and was thinking about him. No one has mentioned his name lately so I thought I would say. I miss you Jimmy. [This message was edited by Tommy Butler on 02 August 2004 at 03:09 PM.] |
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John LeMaster Member From: St. Johns County, FL |
posted 02 August 2004 04:52 PM
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Tommy: I ordered the Jimmy Day album "Steel and Strings" from b0b, here at the Forum, just a few weeks ago. What a great LP. Fortunately, I still have a couple of video tapes of Jimmy with Ray Price. To me, those performances are pieces of history. Perhaps my favorite memory of Jimmy Day was the Sunday afternoon performance at the ISGC in St. Louis in 1998. Among other great songs, he played a version of "Cold, Cold Heart" that was more soulful than anything I have ever heard. Thanks for reminding us of one of the true masters of steel guitar. John L. |
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Bill Ford Member From: Graniteville SC Aiken |
posted 02 August 2004 04:55 PM
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Me too Tommy, I wore out Steel Guitag Hits,Steel and Strings when they came out, around 71/72, I think,have those on CD and spin both occasionaly. Man,he was as smooth as anyone ever was/is. Bill |
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Terry Wood Member From: Marshfield, MO |
posted 02 August 2004 06:07 PM
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Me too! I listened to those Day recordings and still do. He was such a soulful player! Yes, I miss Jimmy Day, Julian THarpe, Curly Chalker and Zane Beck, and now my old friend Speedy West. Terry |
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John P.Phillips Member From: Brunswick, Ga. U.S.A. |
posted 02 August 2004 07:20 PM
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Steelradio.com plays quite a bit of Jimmy's stuff. One thing about it too, you can sure tell it from anyone else. You know instantly who it is for sure! ------------------ |
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Leroy Riggs Member From: High Country, CO |
posted 02 August 2004 07:31 PM
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My wife was absolutely in love with him. At St. Louis, he was only one of two steelers that she would go out of her way to look up. The other was Larry Sasser. |
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Winnie Winston Member From: Tawa, Wellington, NZ |
posted 03 August 2004 03:20 AM
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not a day goes by when I don't have at least one thought of Jimmie. And that's when I'm NOT sitting at my steel! What a guy! JW |
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David Nugent Member From: Gum Spring, Va. |
posted 03 August 2004 03:59 AM
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I had the pleasure of hearing Jimmy with Ray Price a short while before he passed on. At the time I was not aware of his failing health, so I assumed he had retired to the bus immediately following the show to escape the heat. I asked the piano player if he could ask Jimmy to step out as I would like to meet him. A short time later he appeared and spent about a half hour visiting with my wife and I. He was so cordial, he almost made me forget I was speaking to one of my heroes as well as a steel guitar legend. I am certain he is sorely missed by many, myself included.
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John Hawkins Member From: Onalaska, Tx. on Lake Livingston |
posted 03 August 2004 05:58 AM
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I am passing all the posts on this thread on to Jimmy's Brother Joe who lives near me . He always appreciates receiving info. about Jimmy . Jimmy is a legend and was a great player for sure. John |
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Tommy M Member From: Indiana |
posted 03 August 2004 06:49 AM
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I have to admit that Jimmy crosses my mind on a regular basis. There is no way that I could ever sit down behind my steel and not feel his influence and,......on a good night: his presence lookin' at me with that little grin on his face. Jim Vest, Stu Basore, Don Helms, and Tommy White did a video awhile back titled: Legends of Steel Guitar. I just purchased this video a couple weeks ago. Towards the end of it they share some memories and thoughts about Jimmy and his playing. Then Jim Vest narrates a tribute/bio of Jimmy's career. It is awesome! My honest thought: Jimmy Day gave us his all. The least we can do is remember it. ------------------ |
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Ray Minich Member From: Limestone, New York, USA |
posted 03 August 2004 02:37 PM
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Yessiree, musta played "Take Me As I Am", what Jimmy and Bobbe Seymour did on Bobbe's "Masters" CD, a coupla hundred times in the past two months. |
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Steven Welborn Member From: Ojai,CA USA |
posted 03 August 2004 07:25 PM
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Nice post. I miss Jimmy too. I have his Cajun Classic Steel Jamboree video. If there are any other videos out there of Jimmy that would be available somehow, especially durring the eighties, Id love to know about them. |
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Stephen Gambrell Member From: Ware Shoals, South Carolina, USA |
posted 04 August 2004 02:04 PM
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The CD that Bobbe and Jimmy did was not only great musically, but a wonderful gesture on Bobbe's part, personally, as well. And to top it off, Bobbe GAVE me my copy! Jimmy Day, and Bobbe Seymour---2 greats, that's for sure! |
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erik Member From: |
posted 04 August 2004 08:50 PM
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Just listened to Steel and Strings yesterday. - johnson |
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Mike Cass Member From: Nashville,Tn. U.S.A. |
posted 05 August 2004 02:36 PM
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Every time Im about to play the turnaround on "City Lights" The Chief walks over to me and I tell him, "this one's for 'ol Jimmy".He may be gone, but not forgotten on the bus I travel on. I sure do miss him alot, every single day. |
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Tommy M Member From: Indiana |
posted 05 August 2004 02:59 PM
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Mike Cass: that is sooooooo cool! Your post made me smile.  "The Chief" has the right steel man for the job sitting in "Jimmy's" (pac)seat!  ------------------ |
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Chippy Wood Member From: Elgin, Scotland |
posted 05 August 2004 03:03 PM
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It's hard for me to sit at my steel and not think of Jimmy Day, The master of the Slow Melody, such feeling, I play his Steel and Strings every time I'm out in the car. ------------------ |
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Jerry Overstreet Member From: Louisville Ky |
posted 05 August 2004 03:32 PM
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One of, and possibly the first, steel album I bought was "All Those Years". I learned a lot about playing melody from this album. I seldom have a session at the steel that I don't play something that I learned from Jimmy Day. Seeing and hearing him at the ISGC was always one of the brightest highlights for me. |
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Mike Cass Member From: Nashville,Tn. U.S.A. |
posted 05 August 2004 08:10 PM
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If youre playing steel guitar in whatever venue or capacity, it would be hard NOT to play something that Jimmy or Buddy first came up with |
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Jim Bob Sedgwick Member From: Clinton, Missouri USA |
posted 05 August 2004 08:38 PM
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Hey Mike, how you doing? You are exactly right. Most of the stuff I think I've found, Buddy or Jimmy probable found 40 years ago and discarded as a "not cool sound". |
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Jody Sanders Member From: Magnolia,Texas |
posted 05 August 2004 09:09 PM
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Jimmy was one of the best. Jody. [This message was edited by Jody Sanders on 05 August 2004 at 09:59 PM.] |
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Mike Cass Member From: Nashville,Tn. U.S.A. |
posted 06 August 2004 12:06 AM
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Jim Bob; Im doing great,thanks for asking. Hope alls well in the land of stainless steel and formaldyhide A big "howdy" to Dave for me, ok? |
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Bill Brummett Member From: Greensburg, Pennsylvania, USA |
posted 06 August 2004 09:28 AM
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I've been a big fan of Jimmy from his very early days on the Louisiana Hayride playing for Webb Pierce and Faron Young in the mid 50's. The piano player was Floyd Cramer. I used to hangout backstage and pick up tips from Jimmy every chance I got. Today, I still regard him as one of the all time greats. I have his entire Steel and Strings, his Country Soul, and his album with Herb Remington ( A Day With Remington) along with about a dozen of my favorite Buddy songs on my MP3 device which I listen to on my morning runs. Altogether about 50 or so fantastic songs. I never get tired of listening to it and it seems I hear a different little nuance eveery day. Thanks Jimmy........... |
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Wayne Morgan Member From: Rutledge, TN, USA |
posted 06 August 2004 09:34 AM
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Anyone that sits at a steel and makes your eyes leak, from the beauty that comes through it from the hart, is a very a gifted person. That was Jimmy Day ! Wayne |
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Olaf van Roggen Member From: Arnhem,The Netherlands |
posted 06 August 2004 01:31 PM
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Jimmy Day! What a steel player,me and my family were honoured to meet Jimmy's widow in Austin TX this spring. Neil Flanz introduced her to us. Jimmy,we shall never forget you! |
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Phil ONeill Member From: Balbriggan, Dublin, Ireland |
posted 07 August 2004 11:40 AM
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Jimmy Day is my hero of the steel guitar. The recordings he made are his legacy to us all and he lives on in these.Great steel playing in a class of its own.Thank you James Clayton Day from one humble fan. |
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Paul Graupp Member From: Macon Ga USA |
posted 07 August 2004 05:18 PM
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I cannot add anything to this thread without repeating myself for the third or fourth time but I am reading and enjoying every word of it. He was a Hero to a lot of us !! Regards, Paul |
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Gary Meyer Member From: Sacramento, California, USA |
posted 07 August 2004 07:32 PM
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I have read where Jimmy was with Commander Cody. Did he record any albums with them? ------------------ |
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Terry Wood Member From: Marshfield, MO |
posted 07 August 2004 10:21 PM
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Yes, I would like to share a true story, with Jimmy's fans. I was at the Steel Guitar Convention many years ago, around 1978. While talking with the Great Steel Guitarist Jerry Byrd, he commented as Jimmy went on stage and began to play, "Just listen how quite they all get, when Jimmy plays." Jimmy played some soulful melody and you could have heard a pin drop, in the concert hall with about 2000 fans. My dear friend the late Steel Legend Speedy West, had similar comments to spare that was regarding this soulful artist, one Jimmy Day. I know, appreciate, and gladly with gratitude, do acknowledge the inspiration that Jimmy Day had on my style of playing. I miss him and his playing, and my dear friends and steel heroes, Julian Tharpe, Zane Beck and Speedy West... The world and especially the world of steel guitar, would not be the same without these heroes of our beloved instrument! They opened steel playing doors, those doors for all of the rest of us to slide through. GOD bless you all! Terry Wood |
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