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Topic: Don Helms on the Wilburn Bros |
John Billings
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Ohio, USA
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Posted 26 Jan 2006 6:20 pm |
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I'm in shock!
Abdo-lutely awesome! Looked like a perminent with wooden endplates. I'm STUNNED! |
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Sonny Priddy
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Elizabethtown, Kentucky, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 26 Jan 2006 7:21 pm
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That Show Was A Few Years Ago. SONNY.
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 26 Jan 2006 7:29 pm
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| Well,,,,, it may have been, but I just saw it for the first time, and I'm flippin' out! It was great! A very young Waylon, but the steel was amazing! And very cool suits on the brothers. |
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Junior King
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Osceola, Iowa, USA
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Posted 26 Jan 2006 7:29 pm
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I was just watching that, wow!!!
That show will be on again Saturday night, guys don't miss this one. That solo of Cold Cold Heart. Also a very young Waylen.
JUNIOR |
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Dick Wood
From:
Springtown Texas, USA
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Posted 26 Jan 2006 7:33 pm
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I saw it too. How bout that tone and didn't Sho-Bud make some of the best looking guitars in the world.
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Cops aren't paid much so I steel at night. |
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 26 Jan 2006 7:45 pm
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| The guitar was gorgeous! i wish my buddy Ricky would chime in about these. I'm still havin' chills about that solo! it was freakin' GREAT! |
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Junior King
From:
Osceola, Iowa, USA
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Posted 26 Jan 2006 8:09 pm
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I just did a little net search, that movie Waylon was in, Nashville Rebel, with Teddy and Doyle was in 1966. Forty years ago.
Junior |
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 26 Jan 2006 8:16 pm
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| Ahhahahahha! This was great! When he switched necks? Awesome!!! |
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Ricky Davis
From:
Bertram, Texas USA
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Posted 26 Jan 2006 9:43 pm
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Hey John; I wish I did see it, but I don't own a TV...ha....but yes the Sho-bud is drop dead beautiful.
Ricky |
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Jack Stoner
From:
Kansas City, MO
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Posted 27 Jan 2006 3:31 am
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| I've got a copy of one of the Wilburn shows with Don and it didn't shouw the steel very good. The show I have it looks more like a Bigsby than a Sho-Bud. Did he happen to have two back then? |
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Marlin Smoot
From:
Kansas
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Posted 27 Jan 2006 7:05 am
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I kept thinking how great the Sho-Bud looked last night with it's white fret board and natural (maple?) body. Don was using a Dobro type bar too, maybe a holdover from non-pedal days. I tape the Wilburn Bros show, The Porter Wagoner Show and Pop Goes The Country show each week. I remember them as a kid but it has been really fun to see them again.
So far on the Wilburn Bros show I've seen Don Helms, Hal Rugg and Curley Chalker. On Pop Goes The Country I've seen a lot of steel players who are not mentioned on the show and some are really great players but I did see Paul Franklin with Mel Tillis.
These shows are a real treat and a history lesson in cool. Granted, some of the segments/artist I can do without, but for the most part some of the best TV on the air. |
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John Billings
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Ohio, USA
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Posted 27 Jan 2006 11:23 am
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| Jack, at first glimpse I thought it was a Bigsby. But when they zoomed in closer, it was a Shobud. All wood body, no end-plates. Drop-dead gorgeous! Wish somebody would post some pics of this model, cuz I'd never seen one before. |
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Gary Spaeth
From:
Wisconsin, USA
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John Bechtel
From:
Nashville, Tennessee, R.I.P.
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Posted 28 Jan 2006 10:20 pm
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I didn't notice any pedals on Don’s Sho-Bud, but; it was a D–9 and I thought it had his E6 tuning on the second-neck on which he played Cold, Cold Heart. I missed the pedal~check, because; at first I didn't realize it was Don! Fortunately, I'll be able to ask him all kinds of questions about that guitar when we attend our m.t.s.g.a. monthly~meeting on Tue. evening, Feb. 6th! I wonder if he still owns the guitar????? I wouldn't be at all surprised! You know he kinda holds on to things!
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“Big John”
a.k.a. {Keoni Nui}
’05 D–10 Derby
’65 Re-Issue Fender Twin–Reverb Custom™ 15”
Current Equipment
[This message was edited by John Bechtel on 29 January 2006 at 09:53 PM.] |
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Nick Reed
From:
Russellville, KY USA
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Posted 29 Jan 2006 5:15 am
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| I saw that show last night. Totally Awesome! Also some great backing behind Loretta Lynn. Nick |
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Gary Spaeth
From:
Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 29 Jan 2006 5:54 am
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| i saw don in the spring of '69 with hank jr and by then he had an msa double 11 or 12. he said the tunings were e9 and b13. |
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Jim Keith
From:
Anna Texas, USA
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Posted 29 Jan 2006 7:49 pm
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| I didn't count but 2 pedal rods, but the camera angle was not too good, and I might have missed one. I couldn't get over the brite sound coming from a Sho-Bud |
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John Bechtel
From:
Nashville, Tennessee, R.I.P.
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Posted 29 Jan 2006 9:49 pm
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Well, just for your info., here are pictures of my first Sho Bud from 1957! The pictures were taken in 1962, after the Summer of ’60 conversion from a D–8 & (5)-Pedals to a D–9 & (6)-Pedals, by Shot Jackson.
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“Big John”
a.k.a. {Keoni Nui}
’05 D–10 Derby
’65 Re-Issue Fender Twin–Reverb Custom™ 15”
Current Equipment
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Larry Phleger
From:
DuBois, PA
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Posted 30 Jan 2006 12:05 pm
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| This is probably a dumb question, but where are you finding all these great old shows? |
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Marlin Smoot
From:
Kansas
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Posted 30 Jan 2006 2:45 pm
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| I have Dish Network and it's on the RFD network. Try a Google search. |
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