Crazy lap steel stand!

Steven Pearce · Post by **Steven Pearce** » 4 Oct 2022 7:12 pm

This is a great photo, but the coolest is the lap steel ‘tray’
worn around Bill Sevesi’s neck. Here’s the article it’s from.

https://www.billsevesi.com/history

Bob Fraser · Post by **Bob Fraser** » 11 Oct 2022 10:04 pm

There but for fifty years or so,
goes the Peavey Power Slide ?

Levi Gemmell · Post by **Levi Gemmell** » 12 Oct 2022 12:36 pm

Sevesi is playing an eight-string Commodore steel guitar here in 1959 - they have an aluminium top wrapped in MOP celluloid, attached to a wooden body. Almost every other photo of Bill shows him playing homemade double-neck steels, often with Commodore parts. Further down on the page linked, there are photos of him at the Waihi RSA in 1963 (four years later than the OP photo) also playing this stock Commodore.

Can't confirm but it may even be the same colour as the one below belonging to forum member and Kiwi steeler Les Thomas:

I also owned one in this colour previously. They have very comfortable wide string spacing and nice pickups. Above all they are some of the most beautiful Deco-style steel guitars ever made.

Alex Patchett beside him is playing a Commodore solid body electric guitar - also with a celluloid top - of which there were many iterations.

David Weisenthal · Post by **David Weisenthal** » 12 Oct 2022 2:46 pm

What a great idea, wonder why we havent seen it before. Love these vintage photos. Look at the pompadour on the acoustic guitar player!

Walter Webb · Post by **Walter Webb** » 15 Oct 2022 9:20 am

Doubles nicely for his day job selling peanuts at the ball park...

Peter Jacobs · Post by **Peter Jacobs** » 15 Oct 2022 11:11 am

I was thinking more “cigars, cigarettes”

It’s cool how he solved the problem way back when