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Topic: Johnny Sibert |
Jody Cameron
From:
Angleton, TX,, USA
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Posted 3 Mar 2004 5:32 am |
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| Can anyone tell me a little about him? I've been watching some old Opry footage from the '50s and he seems to have been a staff player back then. Thanks in advance, jc |
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Gere Mullican
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LaVergne, Tennessee, USA (deceased)
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Posted 3 Mar 2004 5:45 am
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Jody I sent you an email asking what you would like to know about Johnny. I went to school with him and we played the same radio station together for a long time before he went with Carl Smith.I talked to him on the phone a couple of days ago.
Gere
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Jody Cameron
From:
Angleton, TX,, USA
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Posted 3 Mar 2004 6:06 am
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| Thanks Gere! |
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Gene Jones
From:
Oklahoma City, OK USA, (deceased)
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Posted 3 Mar 2004 7:00 am
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I don't know Johnny, but back in 1951 while I was working at the Wagonwheel in Waynesville, Missouri, I was trying to learn every lick that he played on those Carl Smith records. 
www.genejones.com [This message was edited by Gene Jones on 03 March 2004 at 07:02 AM.] |
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C Dixon
From:
Duluth, GA USA
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Posted 3 Mar 2004 7:56 am
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Johnny and Carl (Smith that is  are "Apple Pie and Ice Cream" in my book,
carl |
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Jody Cameron
From:
Angleton, TX,, USA
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Posted 3 Mar 2004 8:24 am
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Yes, I was impressed with Johnny Sibert's playing. Very accurate (and lots of) slants and big tone.
I wonder if he is still playing at all? |
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Walter Stettner
From:
Vienna, Austria
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Posted 3 Mar 2004 9:33 am
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He is a member of the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame (inducted 1998).
Kind Regards, Walter
www.austriansteelguitar.at.tf
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Gere Mullican
From:
LaVergne, Tennessee, USA (deceased)
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Posted 3 Mar 2004 1:21 pm
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Johnny no longer plays at all..He hung it up about 1983.
Gere |
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Rick Collins
From:
Claremont , CA USA
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Posted 3 Mar 2004 1:56 pm
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| Johnny Sibert is the reason that I play steel guitar today. He impressed me when I was eight years old. I met him once. He was very cordial and answered all of my (at the time) stupid questions. |
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