I wonder what Steel Player did the late Bill Boyd help work!

[Shari Boyd]

shari..was the steve on drums my buddy steve namle?
if so, he's still a wonderful drummer and person.

I remmebered it.. Steve Duncan... brain doesnt work like it used to!

[Shari Boyd]

Wow, I love the picture and have saved it, thank you! Radio Star was a program they were putting together around the time my dad died. I know they contacted us several times. Dad was quite popular with his German fans after he passed I got a very nice letter from one with a tape of one of daddy's shows he'd recorded years before. He thought I might like it. We kept in contact for a few years after but then his letters stopped ~ Since my dad passed when he did, you won't find a lot about him on the internet... but I do know he remains in the hearts of every artist he ever touched... his love of country music was bested only by his love of his family.

Thanks again for the picture and the links!

Hello Shari, I looked around the net for your father, googling his name in connection with AFN. Radio. Maybe it's new to you?

Manche damaligen Moderatoren sind mittlerweile im Ruhestand und halten ihre aktive AFN-Zeit durch rege Erinnerungen lebendig, wie der Moderator Bill Boyd, der im Video zur AFN-Geschichte sagte: „Sie hörten Airforce Sergeant Bill Boyd. Seid nett zueinander und besonders zu euch selbst. Ich sage niemals Good-Bye. Wir sehen uns irgendwann, irgendwo. Bis bald.“

Die 1994 im Film „Radiostar“ gemachte Aussage Boyds bedeutet jedoch längst nicht das Ende von AFN. Der AFN Korea geht immer noch regelmäßig auf Sendung, der AFN Mannheim versorgt unter anderem die noch in Heidelberg stationierten Soldaten mit Information und Unterhaltung (der ursprünglichen Mission des Soldatensenders) und der AFN Wiesbaden geht seit 2004 regelmäßig live mit diversen Unterhaltungs- und Informationssendungen aus den USA live auf Sendung.

There must be a movie somewhere!
http://www.cinema.de/film/radio-star-di ... 32401.html

Here's a picture I copied from the above information.

[Shari Boyd]

I loved watching Steele at work though the fact he thought people knew of he was listening and cranking the volume to 100+ blew my ears... I still have pics of those days. Remember signing the confidential agreement before KISS came to be guest DJs ~ even have MONGOs last will and testament. I prefer to focus on the good times and GREAT memories that job had for me. I still miss Ron Martin, no boss has ever lived up to my first!

You know we had another "celebrity" in our mist back then... known as Beaver Cleaver! Ken Levine the man behind the mic for weekend fill ins was an emmy award winning writer for shows like MASH, Cheers, Everyone Loves Raymond, Wings and more.

I still hear Boyd R Britton in my sleep *laughs*

As for the Palomino, I just happen to find Eddy Hill... he's running a place down in Franklin with his wife... a place a friend was bragging about cause she attended a wedding there not long ago. I goggled it and there was his picture big as life, small world!

Shari, my apologies for confusing your father with the other Bill Boyd. Funny what our minds remember and scramble up over the years . . .

I don't think I ever met Gene Weed, but I remember him being one of the DJs at KFWB ("color radio") before it switched formats to all-news (Ron Weed is still active in TV production, saw his name in the credits on a show the other night). I never met Leo Fender, but I did talk with George Fullerton on a few occasions. Also I was fortunate to get to meet Les Paul and actually hang out with him a few times.

Cory Baker was on the radio in Barstow, CA for many years, but left the air a couple years ago and now manages a hotel there. Last time I checked, Scott Mason was still teaching radio at LAVC and also still Engineer and occasional on-air talent at KROQ.

Me, I went from radio to the phone company for almost 30 years (with a couple of years working at the original Schecter Guitar Research and some time driving a taxi overlapping those other two jobs), keeping my hand in the music field by playing guitar, bass, and lap steel, as well as doing tech, roadie and cartage work (which I still do), along with historical research on guitars and the occasional work in video production, culminating in my role as cameraman / line producer for the Deke Dickerson Guitar Geek Festivals the last nine years (Deke is one of the few around today to still play music in a traditional vein - American Roots music as he describes it - although his variations into rock'n'roll, etc. are just as demonstrable of his vast talent and sense of humor). Pacific Bell was very good about scheduling me time off to go on the road, which I doubt would be allowed today. Eventually I put in enough time to be able to schedule my vacation weeks around the Dallas and Arlington guitar shows as well as the NAMM show.

My favorite time at Ten-Q was getting to sit in the studio and watch the Real Don Steele (a true L.A. radio LEGEND) at work LIVE and VERY LOUD. My ears are still ringing, haha. Radio ain't what it used to be either, and I guess the same has to be said for the record industry.

Guess I've blathered on long enough, so I'll shut up now. See you on the internet

[Shari Boyd]

How silly of my to not notice you are in Germany.. Guten tag!!

You don't happen to have any information on this Wolfang Richter that made the film do you? I had forgotten about it until you mentioned it, we heard much about it just after daddy died but never got a finished product and I'd like to see it.

Ich hoffe, Sie haben einen schönen Tag .. bis wir wieder sprechen

[Joachim Kettner]

Guten Tag Frau Boyd.
I've just ordered the last VHS- casette of the film, that was available . I will make a copy for you as soon as possible.

[Shari Boyd]

Guten Abend Herr Kettner ~ you are now a hero, my mother will very much enjoy this vhs. Please let me assist in payment for your kindness and thoughtfulness! Have a blessed day and my many heartfelt thanks again.

Guten Tag Frau Boyd.
I've just ordered the last VHS- casette of the film, that was available . I will make a copy for you as soon as possible.

[Joachim Kettner]

Shari I've sent you a p.m.

[Dayna Wills]

Does anyone know that Buck Owens was a steel player early on?

[Joachim Kettner]

I have sent the VHS casette to Shari. I guess it made her and her mother happy.