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Topic: Buddy Emmons is to Steel Guitar as... |
Michael Garnett
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Seattle, WA
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Posted 30 Sep 2005 12:08 pm |
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as ________ is/was to __________
Complete the analogy. What's your opinion?
Ben Hogan was to Golf?
Hank Williams was to Country?
Jesus was to Judaism?
Ignore that last one. Fill in the blanks for yourself.
-MG |
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 30 Sep 2005 2:11 pm
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Rick Garrett
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Tyler, Texas
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Posted 30 Sep 2005 2:35 pm
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"Fat is to a mother-in-law ...."
HAHAHA! That one made me laugh right out loud.
Rick |
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Jordan Shapiro
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Echo Park, California, USA
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Posted 30 Sep 2005 2:48 pm
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BE is to steel guitar as:
Big and Rich probably is to the gay pride movement |
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 30 Sep 2005 2:51 pm
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| As Bill Gates is to computers? Anyhow, I say that because, like Bill, Buddy didn't really invent the instrument that made him famous. He refined and reworked what already existed, and presented it to the masses in a way no one else had done. As Bill is easily one of the first names mentioned in any discussion of the computer, so Buddy is one of the first names mentioned in most any discussion about pedal steel. |
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Steve Dodson
From:
Sparta, Tennessee, USA
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Posted 30 Sep 2005 2:58 pm
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| I'm with Donny on this one. |
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Jon Zimmerman
From:
California, USA
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Posted 30 Sep 2005 3:02 pm
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..the wagging tail IS to the DOG!..Since BE is a 'driving force'~BEHIND~ an entire objective for alot of us..EH?
NO OFFENSE intended, BE, Love ya! ~JZ~ |
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Colm Chomicky
From:
Kansas, (Prairie Village)
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Posted 30 Sep 2005 5:37 pm
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| As Bacon is to Eggs |
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John Ummel
From:
Arlington, WA.
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Posted 30 Sep 2005 5:54 pm
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Beans & Cornbread!  |
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Dave Mudgett
From:
Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Posted 30 Sep 2005 6:18 pm
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Isaac Newton is to Classical Physics
Albert Einstein is to Modern Physics
Henrik Bode is to Electrical Engineering
With apologies to Donny, John von Neumann is to Computers
Kurt Gödel is to Philosophy
Sigmund Freud is to Psychiatry
Charlie Parker is to Jazz
Knute Rockne is to Football
Babe Ruth is to Baseball
These are all people who fundamentally and more-or-less permanently changed the way their respective fields are practiced.
I'll stop here, this could go on all night.  [This message was edited by Dave Mudgett on 01 October 2005 at 06:18 AM.] |
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Paul King
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Gainesville, Texas, USA
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Posted 30 Sep 2005 6:31 pm
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| Emmons is just a talented man any way you look at it. What he has done for the steel guitar will never be matched IMHO. Oh yeah, he just happens to be my personal favorite. I could sit and watch him play all day long. |
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Elizabeth West
From:
Surrey, B.C., Canada
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Posted 30 Sep 2005 6:53 pm
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Buddy Emmons is to the Pedal Steel Guitar
as,Rembrandt was to Art[This message was edited by Elizabeth West on 30 September 2005 at 08:10 PM.] |
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Rick Nicklas
From:
Verona, Mo. (deceased)
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Posted 30 Sep 2005 7:59 pm
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Buddy is to Steel as:
Jack Nicklaus is to Golf.
I think Paul Franklin is like Tiger and Jerry Byrd was like Bobby Jones. You golfers look at the comparisons.
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Rick
Williams & Kline U-12's, Session 500
[This message was edited by Rick Nicklas on 30 September 2005 at 09:00 PM.] |
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Michael Garnett
From:
Seattle, WA
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Posted 30 Sep 2005 11:02 pm
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I dig what you're saying, Donny.
That's sortof why I put the Jesus and Judaism thing. Both of them took something that had been around a while and completely revolutionized it for a certain group of people. They each had their followers, and everybody is constantly asking "What Would _____ Do".
-MG |
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Bill Ford
From:
Graniteville SC Aiken
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Posted 1 Oct 2005 5:07 am
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Henry Ford, to automobiles.
Like Donny said, he didn't invent it, but look what he did with/for it.
Bill |
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Stephan Franck
From:
La Crescenta, California, USA
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Posted 1 Oct 2005 9:49 am
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... what Ollie Johnston is to animation--has touched litteraly billions of lives with his art, yet name remains completely unknown from the public.
Research that one out
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www.mojaveroad.net
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Dennis Detweiler
From:
Solon, Iowa, US
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Posted 1 Oct 2005 11:01 am
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 [This message was edited by Dennis Detweiler on 02 October 2005 at 11:05 PM.] |
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Bill Ford
From:
Graniteville SC Aiken
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Posted 1 Oct 2005 3:10 pm
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| That one was low Dennis!!! |
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John Ummel
From:
Arlington, WA.
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Posted 1 Oct 2005 3:20 pm
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| What Garry Kasparov is to Chess. Remaining at the cutting edge best in the world at your art for decades. Creating the view for us to see what's possible. |
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Stu Schulman
From:
Ulster Park New Yawk (deceased)
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Posted 1 Oct 2005 6:34 pm
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| An ankle bracelet is to Martha Stewart! |
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