Tomato Seeds And

[Buddy Blackmon]

...and such. I thought the fole on this forum would appreciate this tale.

I was having my banjo worked on (and can't remember who did the work...though I think it was "Coley" Coleman at the time), and it was a slow day at Sho-Bud on Broadway in Nashville...we are talking late 70's here...

So, I walk up the stairs to find a lone A.J. Nelson working on a lone Sho-Bud Pro and the WHOLE floor stunk like PUKE!!

Of course, I couldn't

[Buddy Blackmon]

...help but ask A.J. what he was doing.

He said that he was cleaning tomato seeds out of Ralph Mooney's SB after some drunk dude barfed on the thing while loading it legs-on underneath Waylon's bus.

The stuff we put up with!

Sorry for the 2 posts.

[John Daugherty]

Buddy, That is not the first time that happened to Moon.
I was working with him one night (lead guitar). He had to take his Fender 1000 home that night because he had a session the next day. Ralphs cousin carried his guitar out to Ralphs station wagon(he never used a case). Before he made it to the wagon, he threw up all over the guitar.
The next night I asked Ralph how he managed to clean that guitar. He said "it was easy. I just set it in the yard, hosed it off with a garden hose and went to bed".
Of course he never bought equipment in those days. Leo Fender and the PR man,Eddie Miller, made sure that he had fender equipment free of charge...........JD

[Mark van Allen]

Years ago I was on stage when a pretty good looking gal kept coming up and watching my hands, obviously fascinated with the steel. When I tried to talk to her I saw how inebriated she was, which became progressively more obvious. Near the end of the night she was standing there watching and one of her eyes just sort of shut down... I jumped out of the way but my poor steel got majorly hurled upon. I really couldn't think of any solution but the hose... new strings and all was ok. It took alot longer for the band to quit razzing me about her critique of my playing...

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[Eric West]

That's why the Sho~Bud plastic raised fret and symbol necks are called "Tomato Seed Catchers™" they're PURE HELL to get out of the little cracks. Especially when they dry.

How do I know?



EJL

[Ken Lang]

"We ain't leavin till we're heavin,"
"Pukin in the parking lot."

[Carl Williams]

As luck would have it this is the first post I looked at after getting up from the table after a big steak and salad with tomat........! ha I'll take my old tomato-seed catching bud anyday...

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[Bill Ford]

"Pukin in the parking lot." AKA callin huey

BF

[Chuck Cusimano]

I won't say where I heard it, or who told it to me, But I had heard YEARS AGO, that (while with Wynn S.) Mr. Mooney deposited the tomato seeds there himself. .... But,
a lot of stories get twisted around. Still, ain't he COOL?

I got to meet him last year and ask him about ANOTHER hilarious story from his days on the road (with Waylon, and no!, I won't tell the story)
and he confirmed that it was true. WHAT A CHARACTER! (What a player!)

Meeting him was just like meeting an old friend. I'll bet the only time he ain't grinning is when he's asleep.
SHINE ON, MOON!

[Michael Johnstone]

Down at Drago's in the city of Industry around 1980 or so I had a certain fiddle player who couldn't hold his kamikazis unload all over his fiddle and my shoes and pedals.I told him to take a break and get it together cause he wasn't playing too good anyway but he never came back. When I went to wash my shoes off after the set,I found him passed out on the men's room floor. At least he missed my changer.
A man's got to know his limitations..........
-MJ-