Pic of me with my first good steel.

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Barry, I was thinking the same thing only David McCallum is now on NCIS every week.
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Playing the Red Baron on the porch. This is about 100 years after Ervs pic :)


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Well, not one with me, but one by me... D10 Fessenden. My first steel, and my first good one...


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This was first steel guitar I ever touched! You cant see it but I think its an old Gibson 3 leg Grand Console. This is my dad with Jimmy C Newman and Rufus Thibodeaux. I cant remember the other musicians names.
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The GES guitars were made by my pop pop. I was trying to find one to buy to keep memories going. He was my favorite guy. He passed away and wanted his guitars for my kids. Do you still have it? Do you know where I could get one?


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The GES guitars were made by my pop pop. I was trying to find one to buy to keep memories going. He was my favorite guy. He passed away and wanted his guitars for my kids. Do you still have it? Do you know where I could get one?


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I like the Colonel Sanders look, Erv.
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Jennifer Hughes wrote:The GES guitars were made by my pop pop. I was trying to find one to buy to keep memories going. He was my favorite guy. He passed away and wanted his guitars for my kids. Do you still have it? Do you know where I could get one?


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Jen--I sold the GES to a guy named Fats Kaplan; at the time steelman for Tom Russel. This was about '87 or '88. I think I have seen Fats on this forum once or twice, you might try to search him, or maybe Tom. Last I heard, Tom lived in El Paso.
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William,
How about this one?

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This picture was made around 1990. Rehearsal before recording a live album for a gospel group. J.M.W.

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This picture is the album cover for that recording. J.M.W.

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1971. It was a very good year.

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Unitorms vs. everyday slob appearance...........

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Look alike attire wasn't all that bad, at least it looked like you were all there with a common purpose.
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old pic

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Imageplaying Silvios trade in at my Brick Music store about 1973 photo from Asbury Park Press story.
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Rich Upright wrote: (Farting into the microphone over the PA was one of their pastimes!)
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1976 ... my first "good" steel (not that the little Red Baron I started on wasn't good, too, for what it was) ... this pic seems a geological age ago; I can imagine what it must feel like for guys with pics from the 50s and 60s! :lol: :whoa: :lol: :whoa: :lol:

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Adam Tracksler wrote:Well, not one with me, but one by me... D10 Fessenden. My first steel, and my first good one...


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You still got her Adam?
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Tony Prior wrote:This is probably 1980 , I sold the Maverick in '74 or so and acquired the Pro III from Sam Ash Music in White Plains NY. 8+4 , two hole puller system. Played this Steel for over 20 years then sold it like a fool. Make that moron...

But I did just recently acquire another Pro III, same axe, same vintage , wood grain...


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Tony,
If you had been behind a LDG, I would have thought that I was looking at a young Lloyd Green.

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