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Mike Headrick


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Post  Posted 29 Dec 2008 11:41 am    
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I would appreciate your help on rounding up some photos of Ralph.

I need a good quality digital picture of Moon playing a Fender. I've seen a couple posted here on the forum before that would work nicely. My favorite would be the one that was taken from the front of a tall stage as if the camera man was kneeling. Second choice would be one taken with Wynn in the foreground. Anything you have, please attach it to an email and send it to steelfodder@aol.com

Oh, if you have any good ones, no matter what period of his life they were taken, please send them. I may be able to use some of those, also.

Thank!
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robert kramer

 

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Post  Posted 29 Dec 2008 1:42 pm    
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Mike, If you can locate a copy of the Wynn Stewart box set(Bear Family) the liner notes have a great photo of Mooney onstage behind his Fender 1000 at the Nashville Nevada club, Las Vegas circa 1960.
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Mike Headrick


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Post  Posted 29 Dec 2008 2:29 pm    
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Yes, that's one of the one's I'm looking for. I once had that boxed set. A scan from a printed image will leave scan lines and I'm trying to avoid that, if possible. Thanks, though.
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Bill Ford


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Post  Posted 29 Dec 2008 2:57 pm    
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Mike,
Here are a couple scanned from Steel Guitarist magazine, and photoshopped a bit. Bill


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Mike Headrick


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Post  Posted 30 Dec 2008 4:21 am    
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Thanks, Bill. That first one seems to have only partially oploaded.

Thanks to those who have emailed me pictures. I am still looking for the one I mentioned taken from the left front of a high stage.
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Bill Ford


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Post  Posted 30 Dec 2008 5:47 am    
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Mike,
Chuck Peters last name was all that was clipped, I looked at the mag and all of the picture is there. There is some really good info in the old Steel Guitarist magazines that Tom Bradshaw published in 1980.I think b0b still has them for sale.

http://pedalsteelmusic.com/reference.html
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Mike Headrick


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Post  Posted 30 Dec 2008 11:14 am    
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Bill,

Thank you. It just didn't load right the first time I logged in. It's fine now.

Still looking, so please pass along any pics you may have.
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Josh Haislip

 

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Midland, Texas
Post  Posted 30 Dec 2008 12:17 pm    
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I wonder what Moon sounded like on that non-pedal steel back in the Day? Didn't he do dobro stuff with ole Waylon?
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Joe Casey


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Post  Posted 30 Dec 2008 1:05 pm    
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Hows this one ?
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Brett Day


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Post  Posted 30 Dec 2008 1:12 pm    
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Josh Haislip wrote:
I wonder what Moon sounded like on that non-pedal steel back in the Day? Didn't he do dobro stuff with ole Waylon?


I think he played dobro and steel with Waylon.

Brett
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Mike Headrick


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Post  Posted 31 Dec 2008 4:27 am    
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A Great example of Moon's Dobro playing can be found on "Because You Asked Me To". Very unique style, as you would expect.

Thanks for these pics. Please keep them coming.
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Mike Sigler


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Post  Posted 31 Dec 2008 4:28 am    
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Mikey
Will this photo be used for a new painting on the life of moon? (Hope So )
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Mike Headrick


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Post  Posted 31 Dec 2008 4:36 am    
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Mike,

Good guess! However, it'd be a shame to ruin a perfectly good piece of canvas with a mug like Moon's.
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Drew Howard


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Post  Posted 31 Dec 2008 9:31 am    
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Post  Posted 31 Dec 2008 9:31 am    
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Mike Headrick


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Post  Posted 1 Jan 2009 2:32 pm    
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Thanks for all the pics that have been posted and emailed. I still haven't picked the exact ones I want to use, so please send more if you have them.

Thanks,

Mike H


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Ron !

 

Post  Posted 1 Jan 2009 10:08 pm    
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Mike,

maybe this is what you need.I have over 300 or 400 pics of steel players.they have been send to me by the photographer that Scotty was using.



Ron
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Jeff Agnew

 

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Post  Posted 2 Jan 2009 4:12 am    
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Drew,

Fabulous pics. The suit and tie are way cool. Any details on the time and place?
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Roy Glaze


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Blessing, Texas
Post  Posted 2 Jan 2009 11:00 am    
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Here is a pic I took about 7 years ago in Bay City, Tx. Jim Murphy was playing for Asleep At The Wheel and Moon was there visiting Fred Jack, I think

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Herb Steiner


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Post  Posted 2 Jan 2009 11:38 am    
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Drew H., those are two fantastic photos! That's gotta be the old Nashville Nevada club, I think I recognize that bandstand. And Wynn Stewart looked like a high school kid there. Wow!
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Norris Ashment

 

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Post  Posted 2 Jan 2009 5:20 pm     And heres one
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Mitch Drumm

 

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Post  Posted 2 Jan 2009 5:22 pm    
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Herb:

I think that pic with Ralph and Wynn has been doctored, with a younger Wynn superimposed on the Mooney photo:

Here is my copy of it, which I think is from 1969, when Wynn would have been 35 and Ralph 41. Ralph looks 41, but Wynn looks well short of 35 to me in Drew's photo.




Here is Drew's pic. Note that you can't see all of Ralph's left hand:




Here is a pic of Ralph and Wynn together. Wynn looks the same age as in Drew's pic, but Ralph looks noticeably older. I am guessing this is from about 1960. Wynn was born in 1934 and Ralph in 1928.





What'cha think? I don't know how the pic got altered, but that is what it looks like to me.
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Alvin Blaine


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Post  Posted 2 Jan 2009 5:23 pm    
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Nashville Nevada Band

The Nashville Nevada band
Bobby Austin-bass,
Roy Nichols-guitar,
WYNN STEWART-lead vocals,
George French-piano,
Peeches Price-drums,
Ralph Mooney-steel,
Carl Mortensen-club owner


Wynn, Ralph, and Jackie Burns

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Alvin Blaine


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Post  Posted 2 Jan 2009 5:28 pm    
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I think your right Mitch. There is a "drip rail" Fender Reverb amp sitting behind Moon. So that had to be '68/'69 or after. Wynn left the Nashville Nevada club in '65 and I don't think he and Moon worked together much after that.
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Herb Steiner


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Post  Posted 2 Jan 2009 5:31 pm    
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This makes me really sad... the fact that Wynn Stewart would only be 74 years old today had he lived. He could still have a viable career. Ray Price is 83. Johnny Bush is 73 and still going strong, though he's somewhat of a health nut.

Wynn was such a great singer, songwriter, and interpreter of songs. A very under-appreciated talent, IMHO.

Another great singer from that era, Gene O'Quinn, also passed away at too early an age.
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