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Post by Rick Collins »

Before you knew anything about a steel guitar, who's sound was most impressive to your unprejudicial taste?

To the vast majority of your audience, your delivery as a player (live) is all the information they have, to make a judgement about you as a steel guitarist.

By the time I was nine years old, I had heard quite a few steel guitarist play live. I must say Johnny Sibert with his 26" Fender Stringmaster had the best delivery.

As we mature as an artist our taste change as we work at polishing our own playing.

But remember, all the majority of your audience knows is what they hear at the moment you are playing.

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Buddy Emmons Image
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Hoot Rains.

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Whoever it was that played those steel guitar "slides" on those old Gene Autry & Roy Rogers movies!

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Post by Ron Page »

In my case this was in the 70's and Lloyd Green was known as "Mr. Nashville Sound". I didn't know or care at the time, but I would later discover that a majority of the albums I bought in the 70's -- excluding Merle Haggard albums-- had Lloyd Green on the steel.

So I guess that really means that Lloyd was on 3 of the 5 non-Hag albums I bought in the 70's. Image

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Buddy Cage!
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Post by Sonny Priddy »

Who Ever It Was That Played Steel guitar Rag Back In the Early 40's I Heard It In 1945 That Sound Stuck with Me.Thats Why I Play Steel Today I Guess Or Part Of It. SONNY.

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Post by Greg Cutshaw »

Lloyd Green, Pete Drake. I was totally convinced that each lick they played had a special pedal. I took me years to realize that two people could play the same tuning and still sound so different.

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Post by Tony Rankin »

I was torn between John Hughey and Lloyd Green. Still am! Image

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Post by Terry Edwards »

Before I knew anything about steel guitar, I hated the sound of steel guitar.

It was an aquired taste that took me forty years to finally get it!

Until then the only tone that mattered was Jimi Hendrix's electic guitar and Tony Rice's accoustic guitar.

Terry
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Buddy Cage and Speedy West!
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Post by Ken Newman »

gene jones, try autry's steel player as 'frankie marvin' of the marvin brothers. they also had a little piece of history in the les paul, chester burton saga as well if memory serves. those autry slides were great ! the audio by the time they got to us rarely sustained the final breath of the octave,,remember? after visiting your web page , it does cause many to tip all hats to the performers as well as the true musicians over those years. precious memories on ya,

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Has to be Jerry Byrd.
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Hal Rugg

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Buddy Cage, Rusty Young. JP
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Bob Dunn and Leon McAluff and J. D. Stanley.

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Post by Dick Wood »

Around 1982 Buddy Emmons(who I had never heard of) played a small club near Fort Worth and I sat in absolute disbelief at his ability.

After the show I was soo depressed I almost threw my guitar in the dumpster after leaving the club because I knew I would never play that good.

He is and always will be my favorite.

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Post by Dennis Coelho »

For me it was Buddy Emmons' recording of the Pachelbel "Canon" from that album (lost long ago) that has a picture of him with a rainbow over his steel. (Wish I knew what happened to that record. Must have been '68-'69.) Four voices on one instrument, I couldn't believe it. Dennis
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Post by Robert Jones »

Larry Sassor and John Hughey. They were both right up there on the top of things for me.

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His name was Marshall Dozer, managed a Dairy Queen in Port Isabel, TX. He had played steel as a "Pro" in Vagas but couldn't feed his family. He played a few gigs with our band fronted by Skipper Copeland of Brownsville, TX @ the Carosel early 70s. I was trying to learn 6 string back then. I didn't get a steel until 79, but I blame him for it and all the pain it has caused ever since. Couldn't get that sound out of my head. Last I heard, he was a big Dairy Queen guy in Larado. Played a ZB Custom, real pretty. DS<font size="1" color="#8e236b"><p align="center">[This message was edited by Dick Sexton on 06 November 2006 at 03:02 PM.]</p></FONT>
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little Roy Wiggins
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Little Roy Wiggins. I would buy Eddy Arnold records to hear Roy. And this will date me as the first ones I bought were 78RPM records.

Later, early 70's, I got to work for Roy at his music store in Nashville.
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I hate to agree with Jerry Horner but Hoot Rain,s==Jim Harper
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Post by Anne Giroux »

Neil Flanz the first steel player I ever heard. He played great stuff i.e. 4 Wheel Drive, Danny Boy, Greensleeves and everything else. What a talent and I totally fell in love with the instrument. Then he introduced me to Buddy Emmons and Jimmy Day. Haven't been the same since.

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Little Roy Wiggins. Jody.
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