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Delvin Morgan
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Lindstrom, Minnesota, USA
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Posted 13 Dec 2008 10:51 am |
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In another thread, Doug Beaumier mentions making only $1.25 per hour. It got me to thinking about my own. I was a farm boy, and my Dad had a simple outlook on life, "if you want to eat you are going to work", so we never got paid any money. So for "real" money I went to work for a neighboring farm in the summer. This would have been 1962-63 and I got paid $10 a week, plus room and board. That is 12 to 16 hour days 7 days a week.
Lets hear about your humble beginings.[/i] |
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Charles Davidson
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Phenix City Alabama, USA
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Posted 13 Dec 2008 1:34 pm
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When I was around 12 or 13,lived in the country close to Plains Ga.One summer worked for a farmer[NO not Jimbo]for several weeks,shaking and stacking peanuts,and picking cotton,at the end he paid me twenty bucks,I THOUGHT I WAS RICH. When I was about seventeen got my first job playing guitar in a western swing band three nights aweek,was paid eight dollars a night,then I KNEW I was gonna get rich,this was in the mid 50's so I don't guess that was too bad. DYKBC.
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Leslie Ehrlich
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Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Posted 13 Dec 2008 3:02 pm
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Isn't this a music discussion forum? 
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Charles Davidson
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Phenix City Alabama, USA
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Posted 13 Dec 2008 8:27 pm
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Is'nt playing in a western swing band,talking about Music ? DYKBC.
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Hard headed, opinionated old geezer. BAMA CHARLIE. GOD BLESS AMERICA. ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVIST. SUPPORT LIVE MUSIC ! |
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Leslie Ehrlich
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Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Posted 13 Dec 2008 10:19 pm
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Yes, Charlie, the western swing thing is relevant. But farm work isn't.
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Charles Davidson
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Phenix City Alabama, USA
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Posted 14 Dec 2008 12:29 pm
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In a round about way it is,If it had'nt been for that farm work,I could not have bought my first guitar,I was a little redneck country boy,illiterate to the ways of the real world,BUT did'nt take long to figure out,I had rather pick a guitar in a honky tonk than pick cotton in that HOT Georgia sun.DYKBC.
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Hard headed, opinionated old geezer. BAMA CHARLIE. GOD BLESS AMERICA. ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVIST. SUPPORT LIVE MUSIC ! |
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Dan Galysh
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Hendersonville, Tennessee, USA
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Posted 14 Dec 2008 5:23 pm
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| At 14, I was a strawberry picker for one day and probably ate a third of what I picked! |
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Eddie Cunningham
From:
Massachusetts, USA
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Posted 16 Dec 2008 7:44 am Us farm boys earned our steel $$$ the hard way !!
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| Like Bama Charlie and Delvin , I worked on a farm back in 1944 , "45 & "46 for $12.oo a week !! It was hot , hard work !!! I met another boy who played guitar and we used to listen to Country music at lunch break . I heard Roy Acuff with Brother Oswald on the Dobro and that Dobro sound got me going. I bought a Dobro for $10.oo at a local hock shop and later bought an electric steel. My first steel job paid me $5.oo , a fortune back then !! It's been all down hill ever since !! Eddie "C" ( the old non-pedal , no reverb , dead strings , out of work old geezer ) |
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