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You Tube vid clips from the album Red Hot & Country and also from a live performance at the Grand Old Opry in 1994 - looks alot Steve Fishcell from the ELH Hot Band era. Anyone know? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlaTiNHkw8o&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLX2jjg4kWs&fea...

Just saw the email - I'll send you a follow up tomorrow and maybe we can talk & work something out.

Hi Thom! I'm Rich "Sunny" Callen; in Vegas (near Alta & Rampart). I've got a mint String master D-8 and have been looking for ages, to find someone that can teach -rank beginner- basic non pedal steel and Hawaiian style techniques here in the Las Vegas area. Feel free to contact at h50...

Thanks Brad - here is the essence of John Ely's reply that also verifies: John thinks it's Kalama Ku Koanui on steel. the style to me sounds like he listened to a lot of 'Feet' Rogers. Feet used chimes a lot for the call and response playing - check out the '5 faces' album - the Sons Of Hawaii red a...

This is a You Tube clip with Dennis Pavao on a local Honolulu TV show "Hot Hawaiian Nights' from the late 1970's I'd guess. He *does* introduce the steel player at the clip start, but he speaks so fast and in his lilting Hawaiian accent that I can't understand him. Anyone know who the steel pla...

Her name is Carter Robertson. She and her husband Barry (keyboards) did tour with Waylon for quite a while. The clip I posted -was- from a Grand Ol' Opry 1 hr TV special "The Lost Outlaw Performance" 8/12/1978 - and *not* from a concert in Norway as I earlier thought. There are a number of...

I appreciate you taking the time to response. I wish that I could have seen Moon play live - Just never worked work for me time/location wise over the years. Glad to know that she wasn't an out of the country touring fill in. Maybe someone out there will actually know who she is & post. Thanks a...

Thanks for your reply - I also think you're right - which leads me to believe even stronger that those two were nationals likely hired to tour 'in country' with Waylon - truth is I'll probably never know who she is. Shame too; because I think she's really pretty. No matter though - so glad that clip...

Does anyone know who the blonde female backup singer is in this clip with Waylon and Moon? I -think- its from a concert in Norway in the late 80's or early 90's - many differing opinions of that on the web. I don't think there are any 'copyright' issues as both of the greats have passed on - and it'...

Thank you, m'man!

Anyone know?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVdhKhNb ... re=related

Sunny Callen
Las Vegas NV

Smokey Fennel - Danny Hooper's Canadian Honkey Tonk Heros

Y'know what the sad thing is? Sneaky Pete should have been in the SGHF a -long- time ago. . .

Hey Jody! Great that you are working on the book - we can't wait - you have given so much to the profession and the instrument over the years - the book will become the definitive tome for Fender Steels of the era - and I guarantee it will be the source that everyone goes to - to resolve conflicts o...

Well, I DO have a number of his neckties. . . .

Jody - You have -got- to write that book!

May I mention Smokey Fennell? Smokey is a transplated California-type playing his Carter (and banjo)with the Alberta-based Danny Hooper Show (Honky Tonk Heros). The Hooper Show has been playing the Orleans Hotel and Casino for several years during National Rodeo Finals and I look forward to listenin...

Jody hooked me up with my perfect String Master a few months back as well. . . Joey's post is just one more statement of fact why Jody Carver is a true gentleman in every sense of the word and why he is a national treasure; keeper of the lore for our kind of music and these very special instruments ...

Jody - great to see you posting some history lessons again! I've missed them - thanks once again for sharing your wonderful storehouse of Fender Lore with us - please keep it up.

Sunny

Jody, thanks for the kind comments and I really look forward to the book - again, I'm glad the Custom T-8 found its way to the master - we treasure you and the great storehouse and library of Fender lore you share with us. . . Dana - just restrung the Stringmaster and it sounds sweeter yet! I love i...

I second everything everybody else said! If you're in Vegas around that time, don't miss the Hooper Show at the Orleans - Smokey, - See you there!<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Sunny Callen on 26 November 2002 at 12:01 PM.]</p></FONT>

Janice is right - one of the first things Ray Benson said when ATTW took the stage at the Silverton Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas Saturday (July 6th, 2002)night was the Big Jim was -very sick- again and was undergoing more chemo treatments (Jeremey Wakefield) flew in from LA on very short notice to ...

Like I said: IMHO only. . .

Got to see Asleep at the Wheel at the Silverton Hotel and Casino here in Las Vegas(sold out crowd) Saturday night - July 6th. One of the first things Ray Benson said when he came on stage was that regular steel player Jim Murphy was very sick again and back in Nashville (I believe he said Nashville)...

I "watched" it on the PHC web site - with the 'Web Cam-Cast" feature where there are 3 cameras sending various real-time still pictures during the radio broadcast,coupled with Real Audio, that refresh every 15 seconds - during the entire "web cast", including a 20 minute war...