Red Knuckles & The Trailblazers - Sleep Walk

Roger Shackelton · Post by **Roger Shackelton** » 8 Aug 2013 10:10 pm

Red Knuckles - Acoustic Guitar, Wendell Mercantile - Electric Guitar, Waldo Otto - Steel Guitar, Slade - Bass. Alonzo Otto - Fiddle. Manager - Colonel Mel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmuZgMEZ5s4

Rich Gardner · Post by **Rich Gardner** » 9 Aug 2013 3:43 am

Really didn't care for that version.

Charles Campbell · Post by **Charles Campbell** » 9 Aug 2013 8:25 am

Exactly What Rich said

Daniel Morris · Post by **Daniel Morris** » 9 Aug 2013 8:37 am

I like it, Roger. The alter-ego of Hot Rize, they're not afraid of a little humor and an original take on a classic. We'll never grow if we only mimic the past.

Lyle Clary · Post by **Lyle Clary** » 23 Aug 2013 9:29 am

Saw Hot Rize and their alter ego band at a rodeo in Longmont Colorado in 1985. They blew me away with their talent. Of course I was more into bluegrass then.

Allen Hutchison · Post by **Allen Hutchison** » 23 Aug 2013 4:07 pm

Sorry, but give me the original any day! $:\$

Ron Fitzgerald · Post by **Ron Fitzgerald** » 23 Aug 2013 6:21 pm

Some songs are sacred and need to be respected. Didn't care for the NY reference either.

Alvin Blaine · Post by **Alvin Blaine** » 30 Oct 2014 1:10 am

Ron Fitzgerald wrote:Some songs are sacred and need to be respected. Didn't care for the NY reference either.

Pete Wernick is originally from NY and the festival they are playing at, in the video, is in New York, that was the NY reference.

One amazing thing about that show is the just a year earlier, while flying to that same festival, Pete Wernick was on United Airlines Flight 232. It was a flight that crashed in Iowa and killed 112 people, and Pete, his wife & son, walked away from it. That steel, and his banjo, were in the wreckage. The case for the steel was burnt up and the bottom of the steel was burt. He still plays that same steel today and it's still all burned on the bottom side, and he has had to replace the leg sockets because of the damage, but it still works.