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Topic: Lloyd Green & his Steel Guitar |
Marco Schouten
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Posted 7 Jul 2002 12:23 pm |
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Does anyone know what guitar Lloyd used on this 1971 album?
Lookingat the year I would think his Baldwin Crossover before or after removing the C6th neck. However the picture on the cover shows a different guitar, I think he never owned.
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Steelin' Greetings
Marco Schouten
Sho-Bud Pro III Custom
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Reggie Duncan
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Posted 7 Jul 2002 5:14 pm
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Marco, Lloyd responds to your query:
That was my Baldwin Sho-Bud which I used on recordings from 1970 until 1973. This guitar was, in it's first incarnation, a regular double- neck with all the concomitant pedals. It became, during the last 6 months of my ownership, the "prototype" for the LDG model, when we stripped all of the C6th apparatus away and put the pad on ( over Shot and David Jackson's vehement protests that I would irreparably ruin that fine double-neck steel ).
Although they were initially adamant that this idea would never have any commercial value, it ultimately became Sho-Buds biggest seller in the later years of it's Nashville ownership.
So it is, indeed, that very steel I've decribed. And for what it's worth, Tommy White, whose opinions concerning music and the steel guitar I highly respect, thinks it was the best sounding of the four Sho-Buds I played during my 25 years in the recording studios of Nashville and the world.
Lloyd Green
[This message was edited by Reggie Duncan on 07 July 2002 at 06:15 PM.] |
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Marco Schouten
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Posted 7 Jul 2002 9:16 pm
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Thanks a million Reggie and Lloyd!
Is the following correct?
around 1964 Lloyd played a Bigsby in Sho-Bud cabinet.
Lloyd played a Sho-Bud Permanent from 1965-1968.
from 1968-1970 his famous Fingertip.
from 1970-1973 the Baldwin Crossover which in 1972 was converted to a single neck with pad.
from 1973 till now his LDG.
from ? till now his JCH.
Lloyd Green and his Steel Guitar was recorded when the Baldwin was still a regular double neck?
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Marco Schouten
Sho-Bud Pro III Custom
[This message was edited by Marco Schouten on 07 July 2002 at 10:20 PM.] |
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Reggie Duncan
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Posted 8 Jul 2002 1:24 pm
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Guitars used by Lloyd Green during his recording career:
April 1964-Oct. 1964.....Bigsby double-neck in Sho-Bud cabinet
Nov. 1964-Oct. 1966.....Sho-Bud permanent double-neck
Oct. 1966 -Dec. 1970....Sho-Bud fingertip model double-neck
Dec. 1970-May 1973....Sho-Bud Baldwin
( from Dec. 1972-May 9, 1973 this became the "prototype" for all subsequent LDG and other manufacturers look-alikes ).
May 9, 1973-Nov. 1988...Sho-Bud LDG (the middle initial was for my wife Dot or David (Jackson), take your pick ).
June 1988- Nov. 1988.... JCH ( on recordings with Dolly Parton, Lorrie Morgan and Ricky Skaggs ).
"Lloyd Green and His Steel Guitar" was recorded when the Sho-Bud Baldwin was still a double-neck.
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Marco Schouten
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Posted 8 Jul 2002 2:04 pm
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I highly appreciate this information, thanks a lot.
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Marco Schouten
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