Your shining star............steel player

Ray Montee · Post by **Ray Montee** » 19 Oct 2012 3:17 pm

Have YOU....... ever had the opportunity to meet your favorite steel guitarist idol?

I've been fortunate to meet Billy Robinson, JERRY BYRD, Speedy West, Lloyd Green, Jeff Newman and LT Zinn.

I'm now satisfied.....altho' it would be fun/nice to meet other really top stars.

Barry Blackwood · Post by **Barry Blackwood** » 19 Oct 2012 3:25 pm

I've met Emmons and Day. I'm satisfied with that.

Rich Gardner · Post by **Rich Gardner** » 19 Oct 2012 4:29 pm

I met two great steel player gentlemen before they passed-Don Helms and Herby Wallace. Two of the best!

Lynn Fargo · Post by **Lynn Fargo** » 19 Oct 2012 5:21 pm

Yup, And he's such a sweetie-pie. I had to make him another shirt since he grew out of the first one I made him 35 years ago.

My buddy, J.D. Call, Pure Prairie League!

Franklin Lehlbach · Post by **Franklin Lehlbach** » 19 Oct 2012 7:54 pm

I've met Buddy Emmons and was friends with Lynn Frazier - back when he was in high school. His family played on the Midnight Jamboree after the Opry (at the Ryman) one night at E.T.'s Record Shop. Buddy Emmons was there and after the family's gig someone joked that "Emmons just broke his (Lynn's)fingers". He was amazing - and so was Emmons. This was in the 1963 timeframe. Lynn must have been 14 years old and played a Fender.

A long, long time ago.

William Lake · Post by **William Lake** » 19 Oct 2012 8:37 pm

Not a steel player, but I met and jammed with Barney Kessel once. My feet did not touch the ground for over a week.

Roual Ranes · Post by **Roual Ranes** » 20 Oct 2012 4:11 am

Yep..........even got to pick with some of them. 'course they had to play down on my level. I've been really lucky.

Marco Schouten · Post by **Marco Schouten** » 20 Oct 2012 9:13 am

Met Jerry Byrd, and some forum friends over the years

Larry Behm · Post by **Larry Behm** » 20 Oct 2012 10:14 am

Ray I met YOU.

Larry Behm

Brett Day · Post by **Brett Day** » 20 Oct 2012 12:24 pm

First steel player I ever met was Stoney Stonecipher at Dollywood-he is the man who got me into playin' steel guitar in 1998-that was fourteen years ago. I met a lot of my steel heroes like John Hughey, Paul Franklin, Don Helms, Tim Sergent, Randle Currie, Teddy Carr, Lloyd Green, and so many others. I think my steel's builders, David, Harry, and Dawn Jackson can be heroes too because they built my best steel with the sound I've been lookin' for for almost thirteen years.

Brett

Herb Steiner · Post by **Herb Steiner** » 20 Oct 2012 1:54 pm

I've feel that I've been incredibly blessed in my professional life to have met and become friends with so many of the greats of steel guitar, but I would say that friendships with Speedy West, Jimmy Day, Buddy Emmons, and Joaquin Murphey are standouts to me because I learned so much of how it was done back in the day from the masters themselves.

Ray Montee · Post by **Ray Montee** » 20 Oct 2012 2:33 pm

and LARRY..........

I've met YOU!

You're simply too kind........

Paul King · Post by **Paul King** » 20 Oct 2012 4:49 pm

I have had the privlidge of meeting my favorite steel player, Buddy Emmons. I have met Paul Franklin, John Hughey, Jeff Newman, Mike Sigler, Herby Wallace, Jay Fee Maness, Jr. Knight, Joe Wright, Zane King and Gary Carpentar. All of these men have made an impact on my playing steel guitar.

Peter Nylund · Post by **Peter Nylund** » 21 Oct 2012 8:41 am

I've had a cyber toddy with Gary Lee Gimble. Does that count?

Roy McKinney · Post by **Roy McKinney** » 21 Oct 2012 3:04 pm

The one and only Jay Dee. I was fortunate to have met him when he was a teen-ager and playing his little 6 string lap. What an great man and player.

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Your shining star............steel player

Your shining star............steel player

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