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Topic: Johnny Paycheck's steeler? |
Anders Brundell
From:
Falun, Sweden
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Nick Reed
From:
Russellville, KY USA
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Posted 24 May 2008 11:26 am |
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Anders,
I know Jay Andrews here in Nashville played Steel for Paycheck a long time before his death. However, in the video it sorta looks like CW Edgar.
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Bill Dobkins
From:
Rolla Missouri, USA
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Posted 24 May 2008 11:27 am
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My guess would be Big Jim Murphy or Jim Vest.
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John Ciano
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Posted 24 May 2008 1:40 pm
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| Sorry I don't know how to post the direct link but there are good clips of Big Murph on You Tube under the titles Johnny Paycheck Medley A and another Medley B. They are from the Lone Star Cafe in N.Y. back in the late 70's, AND I WAS THERE!. Murph was not only a great player but a really cool guy. |
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Bobby Caldwell
From:
St. Louis, Missouri, USA * R.I.P.
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Posted 24 May 2008 1:58 pm
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| I don't know how many know this but Jonny Paycheck was a pretty good steel guitarist himself. He worked with Faron playing for a while way back when. What a voice and what a talent he was. Bobby |
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chris ivey
From:
california (deceased)
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Posted 24 May 2008 3:45 pm
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my guess is jim vest..though he looks a little slim in this pic...but i do hear his cool low string stuff like with vern gosdin.
i never saw murph with a formica steel...
johnny musta gotten a deal on all the nice white hats! |
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JACK HEERN
From:
MURPHYSBORO,IL. USA
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Posted 24 May 2008 3:45 pm
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I don't know the dates but Doug Jernigan played for Jonnny for a while in earlier years. Also Bobbe Seymour was one of the later players before the shooting incident. Bobbe was playing a student model S 10 some of the time. Also the great Bobbe did the fiddle part with his steel and distortion. I have seen and heard him do it. Seems like BS always has a new trick up his sleeve.
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Bill Ford
From:
Graniteville SC Aiken
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Posted 25 May 2008 1:55 pm
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JP also played bass for Faron. The time I saw him Faron intro'd him as his little brother...Donny Young.
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Dave Mudgett
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Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Posted 25 May 2008 8:16 pm
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Jay Andrews posted on a youtube video from around that time - the GOO video of "If You Think You're Lonely" that was unfortunately taken down - that it was him on that GOO clip. Sure sounds like him on this, but whoever it is, it's great.
BTW - there's a new youtube of "If You Think You're Lonely" out there now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG1OgzKgrtM - listen and do your own comparison. |
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chris ivey
From:
california (deceased)
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Posted 25 May 2008 8:32 pm
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| dave...thanx for that link....country music at it's finest...by real pickers. guess that other clip could be the same steeler, going by the hat and sound! |
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Dave Mudgett
From:
Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Posted 25 May 2008 10:26 pm
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| Yup, Chris - that is one of my favorite country music clips, period. Whenever I show that particular clip to someone open to country music but not really familiar with Paycheck, I can hear their jaw drop to the floor. |
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Tony Davis
From:
Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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Posted 26 May 2008 3:07 am
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My Buddy Joe Diamonde tells me that Johnny Paycheck used to play in his band...I assume that it was on steel.......then when Paycheck hit the road..Joe went with him and played Bass and sang Harmony...they would travel in the one car and use Pick up bands on the way.
Joe tells me some interesting stories about that time!!!!!
Joe now fronts his band at the Long Hollow Jambourie...just out of Nshville
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Joe Casey
From:
Weeki Wachee .Springs FL (population.9)
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Posted 26 May 2008 8:45 am
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| That is definitly Jay Andrews... |
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Brett Day
From:
Pickens, SC
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Posted 26 May 2008 8:36 pm
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Johnny Paycheck played steel for George Jones at one time.
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Bob Cox
From:
Buckeye State
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Posted 27 May 2008 4:51 am
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| Lenard Bick also did alot of work with him. |
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manny escobar
From:
portsmouth,r.i. usa
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Posted 31 May 2008 2:06 pm very tasteful steel playing
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My hometown of Portsmouth,R. I.,(where Jay Andrews is from),plus all of New England are very proud of what level of success Jay achieved in Nashville. Last September the local paper did an article about my construction projects that included my steel playing.Jay was kind enough to follow up with a letter to the editor, thanking me for being one of his early inspirations.This neck of the woods was blown away, having learned how Jay was able to fulfill the dream of every aspiring steel guitar picker. From local bars to several major venues on big network TV shows,(including a recent gig on The Tonight Show),he`s done it all. The U-Tube version of Johnny Paycheck singing "Old Violin" is proof of the pudding.(What a sweet sound!)
Going back to Jay`s local and successful days in the eighties; his band "Overland Express" was untouchable, winning several local contests, etc.
However, one sad note was that his bass player of that band, Brad Randall and his present wife Rosemarie were killed on a motorcycle accident in Connecticut on May 26, 2008. I called Jay last Wednesday to inform him. Whew! I didn`t mean to ramble on and on with good and bad.
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Harry Teachman
From:
South Dartmouth,Massachusetts, USA
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Posted 3 Jun 2008 6:59 pm
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Gee Manny, I just read your post about Jay Andrews and was shocked to find out about Brad and his wife. I filled in for Jay one night with the band at the old "Rawhide" and had a ball! Brad was a wild man on stage, but a hell of a nice guy.
Unfortunatly, I never met his wife.
What a shame!!!!
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Boo Bernstein
From:
Los Angeles, CA
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Posted 4 Jun 2008 12:59 pm
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Wolfgang's Vault now has a series of country music concerts that you can stream. There is one of Johnny Paycheck with Jim Murphy blowing steel and it's very cool! Murphy is on fire.
I also have a reel-to-reel tape that I bought from Scotty in 1976 of a live Paycheck show with Jernigan playing steel. I haven't heard it in 30 years and now I can't find anyone with the right stereo reel-to-reel that can play it! But in my mind I remember it being incredible! Boo |
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Ernest Cawby
From:
Lake City, Florida, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 4 Jun 2008 3:50 pm hi
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Where is Steel Guitar Nashville when you need him????????????????????????????????
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Scott Kamp
From:
Columbia,Tennessee, USA
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Posted 13 Jul 2008 7:56 am
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| Anders, my guess would be Jim Murphy. My good friend, David Varnado played fiddle for Johnny, and I know Jim Murphy played for Johnny back then. He was a great player. I just talked to David yesterday, and I'll call him today and ask him if it was Jim. David now plays for Neal McCoy. |
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Jerry Overstreet
From:
Louisville Ky
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Posted 13 Jul 2008 8:14 am
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I didn't watch the video, but when Paycheck played here in the early 80's, Big Jim Murphy was playing steel in his band. I saw him at one of the defunct local movie theatre buildings along with Elvin Bishop and another entertainer whose name escapes me at the moment....or it could the smoke was so thick that I just couldn't see who it was  |
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Buddy Castleberry
From:
HAWKINSVILLE GA USA - R.I.P.
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Posted 13 Jul 2008 8:15 am Paycheck
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SOMEBODY ASK ON ANOTHER THREAD HOW DO
YOU DEFINE COUNTRY MUSIC.
ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS CLICK ON THE VIDEO
IT JUST DONT GET NO BETTER THAN THAT
AND I WOULD CHALLENGE ANY OF THE NEW GUYS
TO COME OUT WITH THAT KIND OF MUSIC.
IT JUST AIN,T GONNA HAPPEN |
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Scott Shipley
From:
The Ozark Mountains
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Posted 13 Jul 2008 9:09 am
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That is definately not Jay on the "Old Violin" clip, but it definately is him on the GOO clip that Dave posted. And playin his yankee butt off I might add!
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