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Topic: Question about Buddy Emmons |
Mitch Ellis
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Collins, Mississippi USA
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Posted 8 Dec 2010 7:09 pm |
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Are there any photo's or vidieo's of Mr. Emmons' last public performance? Mr. Emmons, if you are reading this post, I would like to say "hello" and that I hope that you are doing well. Happy retirement!
Mitch |
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Tim Sergent
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Hendersonville, TN, USA
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Posted 8 Dec 2010 11:20 pm
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| I hope he hasn't played his last public performance....somehow I feel like a few thousand steel guitarists are gonna agree. |
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Mitch Ellis
From:
Collins, Mississippi USA
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Posted 9 Dec 2010 10:38 am
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Me too, Tim. But after all, he has retired and I assume that means no more public performances. I've met Mr. Emmons, but have never had the chance to hear him play live. Since he's retired, maybe he'll invite me over for coffee. You know....show me a few licks....give me a few tips....let me take the Blade for a spin .....  Or maybe not. 
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Tim Sergent
From:
Hendersonville, TN, USA
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Posted 9 Dec 2010 1:12 pm
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| Yes...that just means that now he can come out and play "just for fun". |
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joe long
From:
San Antonio, Texas
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Posted 10 Dec 2010 5:26 pm
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| I really miss his imput on this forum a lot. |
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Hook Moore
From:
South Charleston,West Virginia
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Tommy White
From:
Nashville
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Posted 10 Dec 2010 9:13 pm
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I listened to Buddy's black album "Emmons Guitar Inc." today for the first time in 12 years. It was as if I had new ears! The touch, tone, taste,knowledge, creativity, articulation and correctness in which Buddy played is astonishing , and that was over 40 years ago.
At such a young age, Buddy had designed the benchmark for pedal steel guitars, how it should be played, and recorded the quintessential pedal steel guitar LP with the coolest album cover of all time to boot.
The "World's Foremost Steelguitarist" is appropriate and fitting to Buddy, still today.
Happy Holidays everyone!
TW
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John Macy
From:
Rockport TX/Denver CO
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Posted 10 Dec 2010 9:49 pm
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Well said....
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John Macy
Rockport, TX
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Cal Sharp
From:
the farm in Kornfield Kounty, TN
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Bo Borland
From:
South Jersey -
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Posted 10 Dec 2010 11:22 pm
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Norbert Dengler
From:
germany
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Posted 11 Dec 2010 12:47 am
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there`s been many great ones over decades but buddy is buddy!
my most listened player...  |
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Norbert Dengler
From:
germany
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Norbert Dengler
From:
germany
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Hook Moore
From:
South Charleston,West Virginia
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Russ Hicks
From:
Pegram, Tennessee, USA
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Posted 11 Dec 2010 9:43 am
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| WHAT TOMMY SAID |
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John Davis
From:
Cambridge, U.K.
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Posted 11 Dec 2010 10:12 am
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And then some>>> |
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chris ivey
From:
california (deceased)
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Posted 11 Dec 2010 10:40 am
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indubitably!
i have just been revisiting the 'steel guitar jazz' album, which buddy said he wasn't all that thrilled about. from before the black album...buddy's essence was very clear and intact to me at that time. and he didn't have any buddy emmons records to learn from.
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chris ivey
From:
california (deceased)
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Posted 11 Dec 2010 10:44 am
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| ........and he had 'that emmons tone' way back then....before the emmons guitar was developed. |
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Bill Ford
From:
Graniteville SC Aiken
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Posted 11 Dec 2010 12:26 pm
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| chris ivey wrote: |
| ........and he had 'that emmons tone' way back then....before the emmons guitar was developed. |
I thought he was playing a PP Emmons on that album, promoting the new line of guitars.
Bill
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chris ivey
From:
california (deceased)
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Posted 11 Dec 2010 12:58 pm
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| bill..i was referring to the 'steel guitar jazz' album....recorded in 1963. |
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Bill Ford
From:
Graniteville SC Aiken
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Posted 11 Dec 2010 1:02 pm
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Apologies Chris,
Foot in mouth, brain not in gear. Senior moment...Bill
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Stephen Gambrell
From:
Over there
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Posted 11 Dec 2010 2:19 pm
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| Ford----YOU had a senior moment? You IS a walkin'-talkin' senior moment! |
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Mitch Ellis
From:
Collins, Mississippi USA
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Posted 11 Dec 2010 10:50 pm
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Thank you all for the reply's. And Hook, thanks especially for the great photo! Is Mr. Emmons still playing the Zum Hybrid? When he and Mr. Lashley created the push-pull Emmons, I wonder if they realized at that moment just what they had created and the impact it would have in the world of steel guitars? Does anyone know what ever happened to the first push-pull that they made? I remember reading somewhere that Mr. Emmons thought that it was a beautiful steel and unlike anything that he had ever seen.
Mitch |
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Marco Schouten
From:
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Posted 12 Dec 2010 7:09 am
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I play the song Greensleeves almost everyday. Sometimes I have the feeling that I played it really well. But then, listening to Buddy's version on the Black Album puts me back to reality. That touch, tone and expression....................it's from another world.
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