Bobbe's Tips and Jimmy Day

Wade Romonosky · Post by **Wade Romonosky** » 22 Jan 2006 7:29 pm

Hey Bobbe
You posted that Jimmy wasn't a great C6th player, so tell us who is/was great. btw didn't Buddy record Jimmy's intro and solo arrangement on Nite Life?
Wade

Bobbe Seymour · Post by **Bobbe Seymour** » 22 Jan 2006 7:59 pm

Wade, No he didn't record Jimmy's intro on night life. That chord progression was around way before "Nightlife" or Jimmy or Buddy. It is just a standard chord progression that has been in music since the beginning of time, Buddy deserves the credit for "installing" it on the Nightlife intro.
Great C6th players? Curly Chalker, Maurice Anderson, Buddy Emmons, Julian Tharp, Doug Jernigan, Paul Franklin, Buddy Charlton, Joquine Murphy, Jim Murphy, Tommy White, Herby Wallace, Hal Rugg was, I'm tired of writing but there are hundreds of others that are great C6th players. Jimmy got his job done and made a great living without majoring in Cth like these other guys did, I'm not putting Jimmy down in any way, I've already stated that he was a great friend and that I thought he was a great E9th player, and knew the E neck about as well as anyone anywhere. However, to call him a great C6th player is to discredit all the incredible C6th players I named and a hundred more. I wouldn't say Ralph Mooney was a great C6th player either!
Jimmy played more E9th with less levers and pedals than anyone I know. His 8 string days were wonderful. What if I said Jimmy was the Jerry Byrd of the E9th?
You need some more names? Come on over next week and I'll try to make this more clear.
Bobbe
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Shaun Marshall · Post by **Shaun Marshall** » 23 Jan 2006 12:57 pm

I am way to small of a fish to be in on this, make that a guppy, but since it is around the time Jimmy passed and he has been on my mind so much I just wanted to say something. After being into steel for just a couple of years I met Jimmy at Tom's 1995 west coast steel show and although there were many great players that day, something so special happened when Jimmy started to play, is was like the music in the room just became larger then life. It reminded me of when I saw Oscar Peterson on piano, Jimmy just had so much feeling and music in him that it became more of a spiritual moment then a musical one when he started in on that D-10. I had the pleasure of talking with him after his set and he was so humble and kind. When I asked him for some advice he just said play from the heart and play the melody. THANKS JIMMY DAY FOR ALL YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS AND INSPIRATION.

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Shaun Marshall
Emmons Legrande D-10
1950's Fender Champion S-6, Regal Dobro