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Topic: Looking for James Burton photo/ w steel guitar |
robert kramer
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Nashville TN
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Posted 10 Jun 2011 8:36 am |
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| Years ago, I remember seeing an ad with James Burton playing a steel guitar. Does anybody have a copy of this photo? Thanks in advance. |
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Dave Harmonson
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Seattle, Wa
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Posted 10 Jun 2011 9:00 am
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There's a picture of J.B. sitting at a Rickenbacker pedal steel in the Rickenbacker book. Haven't found it on the net. I think it was from the mid 60's.
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 10 Jun 2011 9:27 am
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Here's the closest I could find, although he's not actually playing the steel..
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Joachim Kettner
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Germany
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Posted 10 Jun 2011 11:15 am
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I once had a record by Jim Wakely Jr., and James Burton was the producer. There was some pedal steel on it, that sounded a little frugal. I always thought it was him.
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Joachim Kettner
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Germany
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Posted 13 Jun 2011 12:58 am
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I want to correct my last post insofar that the singer's name is John Wakely. There's steel on track 4, beginning at 9:00 and track 5, starting at 12:10.
Maybe someone knows who played it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxrl85mID3g&feature=related
Sorry for the topic drift, Robert.
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Tony Glassman
From:
The Great Northwest
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Posted 13 Jun 2011 7:19 am
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| Dave Harmonson wrote: |
| There's a picture of J.B. sitting at a Rickenbacker pedal steel in the Rickenbacker book. Haven't found it on the net. I think it was from the mid 60's. |
I've seen that one too.....can't remember where though! |
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Dan Tyack
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Olympia, WA USA
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Posted 13 Jun 2011 12:52 pm
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| Burton played a ton of dobro on Merle Haggard recordings, most notably on the Jimmy Rogers album. He's a great dobro player. I talked to Norm Hamlet about this and he said that for sure anything with steel and dobro had JB on dobro. |
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robert kramer
From:
Nashville TN
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Posted 14 Jun 2011 11:48 am
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Thanks for all replies. Thanks Dave H. for locating this photo of James Burton playing steel. This photo must have been taken at a sales convention with Ricky, James and James Kirkland promoting Rickenbacker guitars.
The History of Rickenbacker (Richard Smith page 61):
Dan - thanks for the tip from Norm on Haggard’s “Same Train, Different Time” - that when you hear Norm’s steel -it’s JB on Dobro. This record has my favorite JB backing and solo on “Frankie & Johnny.” Here is the Buffalo Springfield’s “A Child’s Claim to Fame” (1967) with JB’s famous Dobro part:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_BRz3NmEiM
Finally, here are two Shindig YouTube clips. The first is Shindig #37 (5/26/65) where the Rolling Stones said they would appear on Shindig if Howlin’ Wolf was booked too. Music author, Peter Guralnick, in his article “Top Ten Moments in TV History” rates Wolf’s Shindig appearance as #1. Wolf could hold up the back end of a car to change the tire. See & hear James Burton, the ultimate sideman, recreate a guitar sound that could easily fit in on a Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson or Little Walter Chess record.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrCoLoCIpps&feature=related
The second is James featured on Shindig doing his 1965 single release: “Lost Love.” The 45 lists his name as “Jimmy Burton.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW-Yz3tPIg0 |
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Dan Tyack
From:
Olympia, WA USA
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Posted 14 Jun 2011 12:07 pm
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Norm told me that there were probably other cuts with no steel where the dobro was JB, but you can tell for sure if there was a steel.
Thanks for the great link to Howlin' Wolf on Shindig, that was killer. |
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Dave Harmonson
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Seattle, Wa
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Brint Hannay
From:
Maryland, USA
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Posted 14 Jun 2011 1:03 pm
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Tele with a Strat (or Jazzmaster) neck on "Love Lost".
We don't hear much about Rickenbacker pedal steels. How many of those exist, I wonder? |
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