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Byron Walcher
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Posted 28 Sep 2004 5:08 pm |
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I have waited to post this hoping that it wouldn't get lost, with one thread apparently losing momentum and after the wonderful news of the detente betweeen Bobbe and Maurice Anderson, perhaps this is an appropriate time.
A couple of years ago, I bought a guitar from Bobbe that for a couple of different reasons never came up to my expectations. I finally decided that a change had to be made. I called Bobbe and explained the situation and he absolutely stood behind his original statement to me that if I decided that this guitar didn't work for me he would take care of getting me into something that I would like. I now have a new D-10 Fessenden,Black, that is without doubt the finest instument I've ever played. I am not a big-league player and Bobbe did not have to do this but he IS a stand up guy and definitely has his heart in the right place. In my experience you can deal with Bobbe in total confidence, his word is good.
Thanks Bobbe,
Byron Walcher
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Lashley Legrande D10 8x7,Emmons Legrande 8x7, Sierra Lap-Top, Webb Amps
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Sonny Priddy
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Elizabethtown, Kentucky, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 28 Sep 2004 6:19 pm
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Yes But don't Let Him Git Into The Fried Chicken. HA Just Kidding Bobbie Old Pal. SONNY & MELVA.
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HowardR
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N.Y.C.-Fire Island-Asheville
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Posted 28 Sep 2004 6:41 pm
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| he IS a stand up guy |
Except when he's sitting.
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| his heart in the right place |
Next to his wallet
His jokes aren't bad either
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| he absolutely stood behind his original statement to me |
which was "get out!"
I just couldn't resist. Too much material here.
I've bought several steels and accessories over the years from Bobbe. He will make every effort to make sure that the customer is satisfied. He's a regular guy that you can talk to.
And, he's a good sport when it comes to people ribbing him.....I hope  [This message was edited by HowardR on 28 September 2004 at 07:43 PM.] |
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Bobbe Seymour
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Hendersonville TN USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 28 Sep 2004 8:38 pm
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Mr.Byron Walcher, what a nice thing to post, I'm glad you are happy, I really try hard but I don't make everyone happy all the time, but I do try.
Howard, you are a nut, but I appreciate the humor, as a matter of fact, I may use some of your material in my next steel show,(Steal show?).
This world of steel guitar is a wonderful place if we all just give it a chance. And most of us do.
Sonny Priddy, the chicken your wonderful wife makes is beyond belief, and I'm getting hungry again. Get down here! My door is always open, (Stu Basore stole it last week!)
Byron W., thank you once more.
bobbe [This message was edited by BobbeSeymour on 28 September 2004 at 09:42 PM.] |
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RON PRESTON
From:
Dodson, Louisiana, USA
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Posted 29 Sep 2004 2:33 am
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STU BASORE STOLE the DOOR????? NAW... 
Bobbe...Just How much $$$$$ DID you TAKE HIM FOR so he could have a "PRO III, LeGRANDE, P/P" DOOR? And WHO'S "Big League" Picker's FINGER PRINTS were on the Door that "UP'ed" the ANTE?... HA, Bobbe & Stu.. THOSE TWO "HECKLE & JECKLE" CLOWNS TOGETHER IS the BEST PART of ANY Steel guitar Show, HANDS DOWN.......(Or we WILL SHOOT!)
This I GOTTA HEAR..............
OK, Bobbe, Whenever you feel like it, you can start THAT THREAD......I'll "Hang" for a while because I REALLY DO NEED some UPDATED HUMOR....ANY stories on Mestro STU is ALWAYS FUNNY.  |
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Kevin Hatton
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Buffalo, N.Y.
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Posted 29 Sep 2004 5:58 am
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Well, I don't know, because thats not the way
that I see it. I had a totally different experience going to Bobbe's store. This one time, a couple of years ago around Christmas time,I ordered one of those Sho-Buds off'n Mr. Seymour's web site that he's always braggin about. You know, owned by this guy or that guy, or whoever. So I calls up Seymour and orders one but I tells him that I want one with only nine strings because I explains to him that I don't know what that tenth string is used for and wouldn't know how to tune it anyway. So two weeks go by and the Sho-Bud shows up at my door ( I don't know but I think it was owned by Toots Thielman or Stepp'n Fetchit or someone he told me like that), and its got ten strings on it!!! So I calls up Mr. Seymour and says " Hey Bobbe this dang guitar has got ten strings on it and I oredered nine!". So he says to take a good look at the guitar again and make sure, and I do and it still has ten strings on it. So I says "I can't play this @#%!n thing, what the dang blazes am I goin to do with this piece of crap. Well he says bring it back down to the store and he'll take a look at it. So I shows up at the store in a couple of days like he says. I brings my guitar in and sets it up in front of the other customers in the store and sure enough just like I said it has ten strings on it! So what does Mr. Seymour do? He goes in the back room and grabs a mallet and a chisel. He comes out from the back room mad as a hornet, goes over to the Sho-Bud and Whop! Knocks off that last lower string on MY steel guitar. Sends the tuner flying off into some obscure portion of the room. Everybody in the store is standing there and stareing in disbelief. So what does I do? I jussy grabbed that mallet and chisel away from Mr. Know it All and goes over to the nearest guitar I can get to and Whop!, I knocks off one of his lower strings. Well thats just not good enough for Mr. Seymour and he grabs the mallet and chisel outta my hands, goes back to my guitar,
and knocks another tuner off'n my steel! Well I says to myself two can play this game so I just grabs the mallet and chisel off'n Bobbe again, go over to another guitar and whops another tuner off'n his. Now someone in the store must of noticed this, probably one of those big breasted woman he's got work'n there all the time, because the police show up in shorrt order. By that time I'm down to four strings on my guitar and he's gotta whole lotta nine stringers in the store from me a whopp'n them off.
Well to make a long story shorter, this is how the TENOR STEEL GUITAR was invented. Because after all hostilities were settled down with the police there Bobbe sat down and played the most unbelieveable version of "Beautiful Dreamer" on my four string Sho-Bud that you ever heard. But I don't know. It took me another two years to learn how to play that four string TENOR STEEL GUITAR ( Sho-Bud you know). Bobbe said that he's coming out with a new video on it. I still think that I got the short end of the stick. [This message was edited by Kevin Hatton on 29 September 2004 at 07:34 AM.] |
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Farris Currie
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Ona, Florida, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 29 Sep 2004 6:13 am
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Well,i's wus gonna brung mys gitar in to him,
butts nots no moe!!! |
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Bobbe Seymour
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Hendersonville TN USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 29 Sep 2004 10:55 am
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Yep! Iz still gotz the Mallett! En Iz willin' ta youz it!
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Bobbe Seymour
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Hendersonville TN USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 29 Sep 2004 10:57 am
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| Kevin, ya' got to much time on your hanz! |
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Kevin Hatton
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Buffalo, N.Y.
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Posted 29 Sep 2004 3:26 pm
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| Seriously folks, when you talk to Dr. Seymour on guitars, you are talkng to an authority. He is directly and indirectly responsible for the guitar and sound that I am getting today. The doctor knows. [This message was edited by Kevin Hatton on 29 September 2004 at 04:27 PM.] |
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Paddy Long
From:
Christchurch, New Zealand
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Posted 29 Sep 2004 7:55 pm
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That must be the same mallet he is selling to tune banjo's with ???
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Stephen Gambrell
From:
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Posted 29 Sep 2004 8:56 pm
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| And he'll be at the Saluda, SC show Nov. 13&14.BRING YOUR OWN 'MATERS!!!! |
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CrowBear Schmitt
From:
Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
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Posted 29 Sep 2004 11:39 pm
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When i got my first real honest to goodness psg from Bobbe, he told me it would have extra strings
well 20 were enough to start with so i have'nt added them others yet
[This message was edited by CrowBear Schmitt on 30 September 2004 at 12:39 AM.] |
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Bob Hoffnar
From:
Austin, Tx
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Posted 30 Sep 2004 5:04 am
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I'm still mad at Seymore for selling me a steel that is so messed up that my feet keep getting stuck in the rods !
How in the heck are you supposed to fit your legs through those things ? Plus the tuning head is on the wrong side !
Bob
BTW: Anybody that chooses to deal with steel guitar customers all day is either nuts, screwy in the head or nuts  |
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Bobbe Seymour
From:
Hendersonville TN USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 30 Sep 2004 5:51 am
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Bob, rods? What rods? I sent rods with it? Send me more money!
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Farris Currie
From:
Ona, Florida, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 30 Sep 2004 7:26 am
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| WELL,i got sho-bud from him,he said open case and go to playing!the strings are to big and it not in tune at all!also hard to reach up and push those pedals!!get more music out of those springs on the end.mabe i should get one of those tapes he sells. |
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Bobbe Seymour
From:
Hendersonville TN USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 30 Sep 2004 8:45 am
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Farris, the chrome tubes(legs) go down toward the floor, you are trying to play it upside down, naw, on second thought, you might sound better the way you are doing it, never mind--------------->
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Farris Currie
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Ona, Florida, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 30 Sep 2004 9:50 am
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| Sorry i been out for a spell. Decided to restore my sho-bud.Like the blue one BOBBES GOT,so i took it out in the shop,gave it a good sandblasting,and i had a whole gallon of Ford Tractor blue.Man that thing is pretty I see the price on BOBBES,so mine is for sale to.I even cleaned the paint off the fret board!! Wow what a looker,any takers? |
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Jim Simon
From:
Moses Lake, WA
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Posted 30 Sep 2004 2:38 pm
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| Heads up folks, Bobbe is a closet banjo player. Yea he puts on a good front and talks "steel" to us but late at night when he is "working" in the store he dresses up in Girlie Man clothes and a pair of red high heels and plays the banjo. I know this is hard to believe but I was there and seen it through the winder. |
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Dustin Rigsby
From:
Parts Unknown, Ohio
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Posted 1 Oct 2004 3:34 pm
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Bobbe is one of the reasons I started playing steel. I saw him at Gary Prestons show last January. He flew up 500 miles in a blinding snow storm, played that Chet finger-style on c/6,packed up his amps and boogied. I said to myself"man that was cool". Been hooked ever since. I wish Bobbe would take a charity case and send me that purty blue sho-bud that is on his web site.
p.s. Bobbe,were your arms tired from all that flying ? :b
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Carter Starter and various six string toys
[This message was edited by Dustin Rigsby on 01 October 2004 at 04:36 PM.] [This message was edited by Dustin Rigsby on 01 October 2004 at 04:37 PM.] |
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Jimmie Martin
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 1 Oct 2004 5:05 pm
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| hep bobbe is a great person. i think i got on his bad side. didn't mean to.but i have videos of his and he can play. i'm 56 just started about 5 months ago. i don't have enough years to be even close to what he is. |
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Farris Currie
From:
Ona, Florida, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 2 Oct 2004 4:05 am
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you betchya,BOBBE is # one,OK, he has been a
real friend,and very helpful to me also.
Don't know where the DR.SEYMORE came from
though!!!!! Sure like to see him in those RED
high heel shoes!!! man what a site!!wonder if
he can play steel with those????
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KENNY KRUPNICK
From:
Columbus, Ohio
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Posted 2 Oct 2004 7:27 pm
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Dustin, Bobbe drove up from Nashville.He left earlier,because he had to play a gig the next day.
His playing,  Excellent!! |
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Bobbe Seymour
From:
Hendersonville TN USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 3 Oct 2004 9:49 am
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I want to thank all you guys for the wonderful things said, and the horrible things you said in humor(I hope)also.
Farris, go practice, Robert Martin no problems, all of you are giving me too many laugh lines! I am very proud to have so many totally nuts friends!
This is what life is about, laughing, having fun ,steel guitar music, and great friends. The folks on this forum are the worlds greatest.
Thank you b0b for having this forum for us pickers to communicate through. Is this a wonderful world or what?
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Bobbe Seymour
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Hendersonville TN USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 3 Oct 2004 9:51 am
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| Jim, so what's wrong with Red high heels, as long as they fit? Ha! |
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