Rebel and Ricky" Site> CLOSED for GOOD

Ricky Davis · Post by **Ricky Davis** » 26 Sep 2003 2:25 pm

I'm sorry to announce that the "Rebel and Ricky" sound clip and tab site...is now Closed.
I just spoke with Rebel(Graham Reid)...and he has No time or inclination to run the site anymore.
Sorry folks...It was a nice run...
Ricky

CrowBear Schmitt · Post by **CrowBear Schmitt** » 27 Sep 2003 12:16 am

Don Townsend · Post by **Don Townsend** » 28 Sep 2003 7:00 am

Thanks for all the effort you & Graham put in over the years. I'm sure there are a lot of grateful guys who were helped by your work.

Rich Young · Post by **Rich Young** » 28 Sep 2003 3:50 pm

I wish I had known it was going down, I'd only downloaded thru '74, I would have grabbed all of them if I knew it was going.

It's too bad, that was a great site. I learned a lot off of there.

MUSICO · Post by **MUSICO** » 30 Sep 2003 1:27 am

Couldn't someone put it on CD????

I'd pay to get it.

Jeremy Williams
Barcelona Spain

Steve Cochran · Post by **Steve Cochran** » 30 Sep 2003 12:22 pm

I agree with Musico. Putting it on cd is a great idea. I also would be interested in purchasing a copy.

Steve Cochran

Jay Riddle · Post by **Jay Riddle** » 1 Oct 2003 7:42 am

I will miss this site as well.It really was nice to have the tab and sound clips to a whole slew of country songs.I thank you for all the tab I got from it while the site was up and running.
Sincerely,Jay

Ray Minich · Post by **Ray Minich** » 2 Oct 2003 2:42 pm

Thanks guys for the time that you ran it. I scarfed up everything I could whilst it was alive. Just finding out who played on each tune was heartwarming.

Thanks again.

Niklas Widen · Post by **Niklas Widen** » 3 Oct 2003 3:40 am

sad to hear that... That site was the best thing to happen to online steelers since this forum, along with SteelRadio, IMO

/Nicke W

Cairo Zoots · Post by **Cairo Zoots** » 3 Oct 2003 6:34 am

Well, I guess it was a pretty good run guys. Mark me down as one of the greatful recipients of all of your hours of labor. It was a massive body of work, and y'all can be justifiably proud for what you've accomplished! Thank you, thank you, thank you. Cz

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Jim Eller · Post by **Jim Eller** » 3 Oct 2003 1:40 pm

Rebel and Ricky,

Is it possible to put the site back up for a short period of time so those of us that missed out can make our own CD and tab?

Thanks,
Jim

DroopyPawn · Post by **DroopyPawn** » 3 Oct 2003 3:48 pm

Hee hee. I got it all a few months ago. I wouldn't mind reposting everything on one of my sites but I'm in the same boat for time. THERE ISN'T ANY

Graham · Post by **Graham** » 4 Oct 2003 3:55 pm

Droopy:
You mightn't mind, but I certainly would! The site is nobody's to post but mine or whomever I might decide to give it to.

Regards

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CrowBear Schmitt · Post by **CrowBear Schmitt** » 5 Oct 2003 1:18 am

Hi Graham
glad to see you're on the case
would it be possible for you to let us know the reason(s) for ending your fine site ?
i'm sure many of us would like to know
is there any way to get it back up and runnin' ?
Thanx for a great ride

[This message was edited by CrowBear Schmitt on 05 October 2003 at 02:18 AM.]

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 5 Oct 2003 2:37 am

Graham, I am sure the sound files much be as large or larger than a CD,
but the TAB shouldn't be that big.

If you could see your way to putting that on a CD I sure there are a number of people besides myself and Crowbear who would make that time worth your while.

I was so busy during the short time the site was back up I couldn't even look through it well let alone get a few needed files.

Also I have just added a lot of space on my ISP's server, and depending on size and the bandwidth usage you typically had, I would at least consider hosting it here.
It is a very big company with wide bandwidth, so this is possible.
Granted it IS in France, but the net is location non specific.[This message was edited by David L. Donald on 05 October 2003 at 03:42 AM.]

Graham · Post by **Graham** » 5 Oct 2003 4:01 am

CrowBear & David:
Thank you for the kind words. A bit of reson behind my decision, I have had my steel now for 3 years and I still can't play it. I spend more time going thru old records, cassettes etc. looking for material for the web site than I do practising. A very good friend of mine died last year. He was a major record collector of old country music. Last week, his son brought me over 100+ records of just about anybody you can name that his dad wanted me to have. You can imagine the intros etc that must be in there!
You may not believe this, but I can not play one single piece of tab on my own web site. Not good!! I therefore decided to take the site down and see if I can finally learn to play this thing. In other words, channel my time where it should be.

I will be happy to email the songlist of all titles on the site to anybody who requests it and if they need a piece of tab, will email them a text file of it. Best I can do at this time.

To all, thanks for the offers to host the site and also for the kind words shown to Ricky, Jeff and myself.

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George Kimery · Post by **George Kimery** » 5 Oct 2003 4:18 am

Graham:

I would also like to thank you so much for your invaluable contribution to the steel guitar community for your hours and hours of work with no pay. Unfortunately, like most others, I only downloaded a few things. I am not savy as to what is involved in putting everything on a CD and offering it for sale, but I for one would be very interested. The sales of these CD's would be a way to compensate you for all the work you have poured out. Good luck to you on your pursuit of the steel.

John Young · Post by **John Young** » 5 Oct 2003 2:40 pm

hey Graham i use to live north of you in a town called brooklin many years ago do you know Paul Evans hes a good steel player maybe help you with your kickoffs he lives in oshawa your site was great i hope maybe someone can carry on your great work thanks John Young

Bob Doran · Post by **Bob Doran** » 5 Oct 2003 4:25 pm

Just wanted to add my heart-felt thanks also.
You have made a huge difference to this struggling steel guitarist.
I hope i can make it up to you someday.
Good luck and thanks
Bob

CrowBear Schmitt · Post by **CrowBear Schmitt** » 7 Oct 2003 1:47 pm

Thanx for your reply as well as your offer Graham

Good Luck and plenty of Licks to ya'

[This message was edited by CrowBear Schmitt on 07 October 2003 at 02:48 PM.]

Mark Ardito · Post by **Mark Ardito** » 7 Oct 2003 4:48 pm

Graham,

Hey I just sent Ricky an email...I would be glad to offer my programming talent to get this site up and running. Shoot me an email and we can talk...

Thanks!
Mark Ardito

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Dylan Schorer · Post by **Dylan Schorer** » 10 Oct 2003 9:05 am

I was very disappointed to see this invaluable resource close. As a new steel guitarist, I would spend hours a week on this site. I want to thank everyone involved with site for their time and effort.

You should know that almost every page on the web gets archived at www.webarchive.org. It's a public non-profit founded in collaboration with the Library of Congress & and The Smithsonian to create an "Internet Library."

The upshot is that you can pull up old, defunct websites, including the Rebel & Ricky tab site. The Wayback Machine allows to pull up a browseable snapshot of the site. Just enter the URL of the site you want (http://users.interlinks.net/rebel/steel/steel.html).

Their most recent snapshot of the Rebel & Ricky site is at http://web.archive.org/web/20030210115243/http://users.interlinks.net/rebel/steel/ steel.html
It doesn’t contain the audio files, but you can get to the tab. For some reason, the tablature icon isn't displaying, so you have to click in the white space next to the audio file icon to get to the tab.
[This message was edited by Dylan Schorer on 10 October 2003 at 10:06 AM.]

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 11 Oct 2003 12:40 am

Graham. I respect your decision to actually spend MORE time learning all the TAB.
That is surely the reason to have done it.

But I question the neccesity of taking down the site.

Wouldn't it be just as good to leave it in cyber space and then all your work doesn't go wasted.

And put a big disclaimer up saying.

" We are no longer updating this site.
But for all who choose to use it,
and especially download sound files,
please make a paypal donation to graham@x.com

To defray server costs. It is here as a steelers public service, but It comes out of my pocket, so if you still want it here, help keep it alive."

Seems to me this would cover all the bases. your work isn't lost, the comunity gets to see and use it, and you don't go broke... and yet,
you will have the time to woodshed tunes.

Otherwise it's just a loss for you and all others. IMHO

Al Marcus · Post by **Al Marcus** » 11 Oct 2003 8:59 am

I don't read or use tab. But I did listen to a lot of the intros and turnarounds. It was nice to copy some of them.
From the response I have seen on this topic there is a lot of guys that want it back one way or another. Graham could, apparentley make a fair amount of money for his efforts if He allowed it on the internet or sold CD's. However, maybe there are some kind of legal reason why He cant do that......................al

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steve takacs · Post by **steve takacs** » 13 Oct 2003 5:02 pm

Dylan,
Thanks you so much for knowledge about this archives website. Never knew it existed before; really great to know and use now & for future reference. steve