Silvio Tuccierone (sp?)

Stephen Silver · Post by **Stephen Silver** » 15 Dec 2006 12:53 pm

Does anyone know or know the where abouts of this great pedal steel player? Last I had heard he was in Atlanta, but that was 25 years ago. Man, he could play and I would like to get in touch with him to say hello.

Cheers
SS

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Skip Edwards · Post by **Skip Edwards** » 15 Dec 2006 1:48 pm

I remember Silvio... I last saw him in 1981, when he was in a band called "Memphis". He was still living in Atlanta then...don't know what became of him, though.

Chris Bauer · Post by **Chris Bauer** » 15 Dec 2006 2:23 pm

Silvio was a great friend and a great player. He died of cancer a number of years ago. He had just started playing again after having not played for several years and working as a tech call center operator. He'd gone back to school in Atlanta to learn computer skills and then moved to Dallas to work. He was living in Dallas at the time of his death.

I miss him a lot.

Skip Edwards · Post by **Skip Edwards** » 15 Dec 2006 2:55 pm

Very sorry to hear about that...he was a cool guy and quite a picker.
Thanks for letting us know.

Stu Schulman · Post by **Stu Schulman** » 15 Dec 2006 3:49 pm

Oh Man!This breaks my heart,what a nice guy,and great player he was.

Neil Owens · Post by **Neil Owens** » 15 Dec 2006 5:34 pm

Man I Hate to hear that, I Played tele In a band In Jersey In the late 70,s with Silvio.
We Had some great times .I learned a lot from him. May he rest in peace.
Neil.

Stephen Silver · Post by **Stephen Silver** » 15 Dec 2006 6:53 pm

Well, thanks for the news, as sad as it is. Life is short for us all.

Of course Silvio and I never played in a band together. Our stories crossed as he was a member of a band that had been hired by Emory Gordy to back up Mary Kay Place. (Skip, even though we don't know one another, we have a few mutual aquaintences in our history...that was where I met Paul Solomon who is still a best friend!)

For whatever reason, Emory called me and asked that I audition and I wound up replacing Silvio.

He played circles around me, I mean circles. Great tone feel and instincts. And he was a really wonderful person as well.

Damn.

SS

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Chris Bauer · Post by **Chris Bauer** » 15 Dec 2006 8:18 pm

This is a bittersweet thread for me. As I mentioned, I miss Silvio. But on the other hand, it feels good to see his playing recognized by others, who like me, appreciated him and his playing.

He was a free thinker from a musical standpoint who, in a quiet way, took a really unique approach to the instrument. Though I guess he was known a bit for having been one of the earlier players to champion steel as a MIDI controller, I always thought his under-recognized mad genius was his overall musical concept. His playing was hugely influenced by jazz, rock, and fusion guitarists and yet his style worked well across genres. He could be such a great ensemble player that you uually had to listen closely to realize that a lot of what he was doing was truly unique.

Although I loved the live tapes he shared with me now and then, I regret that I never got to hear him live on a gig. I did have plenty of opportunity, though, to hear (in person) his ever-present, and often hilarious, rants about whatever type of BS he perceived in the world around him - and he always seemed to perceive a lot of it!

In fact, I seem to recall that it was exactly one of his more twisted anti-BS maneuvers that gleefully lost him the Memphis gig.

Steve Hinson · Post by **Steve Hinson** » 16 Dec 2006 5:05 am

Wow...every time I see one of Silvio Bello's posts,I think of Silvio Tuccierone!I always wondered what happened to him...Becky and I met him in a club,and we were always glad to run in to him...a very nice cat!I never heard him play a note(that I know of),but I really liked him...haven't seen him in about 20 years,and I'm truly sorry to hear about his death...he was a good'un.

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Jerry Hayes · Post by **Jerry Hayes** » 16 Dec 2006 6:33 am

I knew Sylvio while he was living in Southern California. I was working part time at Nash's Music in Inglewood during the day and at the Swizzle Stik in Huntington Beach 6 nights a week. At Nash's our guitar instructor was the great Al Bruno. Sylvio came in one day to see Al and as we usually kept about 6 or 8 steel guitars in stock we wound up jamming with Al on guitar, Sylvio on steel, and me on bass. I invited Sylvio to come to the club and set in with us sometime and he came out a couple of different times and even worked a night or two with us as a fill in. I remember the first time we asked him to do an instrumental, he played "Black Mountain Rag" in the key of B and really burned it up. I noticed that the black ShoBud he was playing at the time had narrow pedals but they had the grate on top of them. He told me that he'd been to the ShoBud factory to inquire about getting the newer narrow pedals and they'd just taken his pedals to a bandsaw and cut some off each side to make 'em narrower. I had my S-12 'bud I'd just bought which had the wide pedals so I took a hacksaw and did the same to mine. All in all, Sylvio was a hot picker and a pretty good dude. I'm really sorry to hear of his passing.....JH in Va.

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Henning Kock · Post by **Henning Kock** » 16 Dec 2006 9:51 am

16 december 2006,
I saw Silvio play together with Jimmy Crawford on Scottys Convention in St. Louis in 1985.
It was mentioned,that Silvio had just written a pedal steel instruction book.
I would like to buy this book, who ha s a copy for sale?.
Kind regards,
Henning

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