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Topic: Speedy & Jimmy video clip |
Alvin Blaine
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Picture Rocks, Arizona, USA
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Posted 1 Feb 2006 11:31 pm |
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I don't know if this has been posted here yet, but there are two clips on YouTube.com with Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant.
It's Tennessee Ernie Ford doing "Kissing Bug Boogie" & "Shotgun Boogie" and they have great solo's from Jimmy and Speedy.
Here is the Kissin' bug link
The Shotgun Link[This message was edited by Alvin Blaine on 01 February 2006 at 11:43 PM.] |
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Jim Phelps
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Mexico City, Mexico
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Posted 1 Feb 2006 11:49 pm
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| Great clip, thanks Alvin. |
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Bob Stone
From:
Gainesville, FL, USA
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Posted 2 Feb 2006 11:03 am
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| Hot stuff! Thanks. |
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Brad Bechtel
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San Francisco, CA
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Posted 2 Feb 2006 2:06 pm
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These brief videos show Speedy's bar chatter and boo-wah techniques. I only wish I had a complete DVD of these videos! Thanks for sharing.
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Brad's Page of Steel
A web site devoted to acoustic & electric lap steel guitars
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Ben Jones
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Seattle, Washington, USA
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Posted 2 Feb 2006 3:02 pm
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oh man now i am confused again.
see my thread on boowah and chatter.
I thought chatter was just poor bar technique from not enough pressure?, it is actually a "technique"??????
"These brief videos show Speedy's bar chatter and boo-wah techniques" |
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Brad Bechtel
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San Francisco, CA
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Posted 2 Feb 2006 3:17 pm
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Ben,
If you're incorporating it into your playing style, it's not an error. 
Speedy West bounced his bar against the strings, struck the strings with the side of his palm, etc. to get different attacks and tones. He also manipulated his tone control to go from a bass to a treble setting while playing a note (that's what I refer to as his "boo-wah technique").
His playing is unlike any other steel player; although many have tried to imitate him, I still haven't heard anyone with his unique approach to the instrument.
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Brad's Page of Steel
A web site devoted to acoustic & electric lap steel guitars
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Ben Jones
From:
Seattle, Washington, USA
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Posted 2 Feb 2006 3:30 pm
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Thanks Brad i will watch those videos closely again, and look for the Chatter.
Speedy is so cool. Gotta love a great innovator and exciting performer like that.
Tomorrow I will be seeing Wayne Hancock perform, I am hoping he will have Jeremy Wakefield with him on steel, who plays in a similar vein, at least to my uneducated ears.
Guess there wil only ever be one Speedy West tho. Off to watch them vids again. Cheers!
edit: ok I think i got it. At the very end of Speedys solo in Shotgun Boogie, that really fast hammer on thing he does...thats chatter? very cool indeed![This message was edited by Ben Jones on 02 February 2006 at 03:47 PM.] |
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Jim Phelps
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Posted 2 Feb 2006 9:48 pm
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| Curly Chalker also had some similar techniques with bar "chatter", and added "gutting" with the volume pedal. [This message was edited by Jim Phelps on 02 February 2006 at 10:04 PM.] |
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Jussi Huhtakangas
From:
Helsinki, Finland
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Posted 2 Feb 2006 10:22 pm
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Ben, Wayne won't have JW with him, he hasn't played with Wayne in years. Most likely Wayne doesn't have a steel player with him at all. Too bad  |
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Ben Jones
From:
Seattle, Washington, USA
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Posted 3 Feb 2006 7:14 am
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"Ben, Wayne won't have JW with him, he hasn't played with Wayne in years. Most likely Wayne doesn't have a steel player with him at all. Too bad "
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! |
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Andy Sandoval
From:
Bakersfield, California, USA
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Posted 3 Feb 2006 8:13 am
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| Those videos were great! |
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wt golden
From:
Houston, Texas, USA
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Posted 3 Feb 2006 10:54 am
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Speedy is unbelievable - but did you see that sly grin that Jimmy gives the camera AS he is running through that amazing be-bop line in Kissing Bug Boogie? It is so effortless for him to just turn it on like that. You know those guys were having fun.
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Scott Thomas
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Posted 3 Feb 2006 11:01 am
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Thanks for posting those! My mother lived in the Los Angeles area during that era, and knowing my interest in steel guitar, has told me stories of the many times she went over to Pasadena to watch the live radio braodcasts with Tennessee Ernie Ford with Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant in the late 40's. He (Ford) would go into the booth and read the news, then come out sing in between for musical segments. Later on in the 50's, she would watch them tape for television at a location in El Monte CA. As an aside, she also had an uncle (by marriage) named Toy "Rocky" Stone (no relation to Cliffie) who played with someone named Oly Rasmussen(?) Anyone ever hear of him?
Anyway, my mom tells of a very lively music scene in Southern California during those years. She remembers a precocious little girl named Barbara Mandrell who played steel and always appeared with Joe Maphis. Lots and lots of western swing on the radio and t.v. in the afternoons. I would have loved to have been there, but with those video clips, I get a sense of what she was talking about.
This is kind of a funny story . . . she told me of a good friend of hers who auditioned to be a singer for Spade Cooley. Apparently she was told quite matter of factly by the office receptionist, that to make it in the band, she would be expected to sleep with Spade!
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Brad Bechtel
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San Francisco, CA
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Scott Thomas
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Posted 3 Feb 2006 2:29 pm
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Hey, thanks Brad!
Doing a search never really occured to me, since I just assumed they were one of many obscure local acts that must have proliferated around that area at that time.
I checked Amazon.com and I see they even rate their own Bear Family compilation---cool!
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Andy Volk
From:
Boston, MA
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Posted 3 Feb 2006 5:09 pm
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| Individually they were great but together ..... unequaled to this day. |
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Mike Ihde
From:
Boston, MA
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Posted 3 Feb 2006 6:32 pm
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I have those 2 videos and many others on this compilation I put together a few years ago. Here's the original post...
"Speedy West Jimmy Bryant and Others" This tape includes 3 single song videos of Tennessee Ernie doing "classics" like "Shot Gun Boogie", a complete half hour episode of "Hometown Jamboree" with Cousin Ernie, a short film called Tennessee Ernie and Molly Bee in "Corral Cuties" All the above feature Speedy and Jimmy. Then a short movie called "Jimmy Wakely's Jamboree" with Noel Boggs, then 5 videos of "Smokey Rogers and his Cowboy Cavalcade" (in color!) Then, Merle Travis and the Travelers (with Speedy) doing 4 or 5 tunes. All together it's 2 hours of amazing classic country music from the 1950's. $20 (includes shipping in the US)
contact Mike Ihde ...thephotodoctor@comcast.net
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Todd Weger
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Safety Harbor, FLAUSA
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Posted 5 Feb 2006 8:32 am
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| "Ben, Wayne won't have JW with him, he hasn't played with Wayne in years. Most likely Wayne doesn't have a steel player with him at all. Too bad " NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! |
Yeah, unfortunately true. My guitarist just saw Wayne a couple weeks before Christmas here in Tampa, and then hung out with all those guys until the sun came up. Seems Wayne is somewhat of a party animal and night-owl (according to my guitarist, anyway).
Like you, my guitarist was bumming that Jeremy wasn't with them for the show. It was just trio, and while he said they still were smokin' hot, he really missed hearing that hot steel guitar.
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Todd James Weger --
1956 Fender Stringmaster T-8 (C6, A6, B11); 1960 Fender Stringmaster D-8 (C6, B11/A6); Regal resonator (C6)
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Todd Weger
From:
Safety Harbor, FLAUSA
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Posted 5 Feb 2006 8:39 am
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Alvin -- how do I play it? I click on the link, and it goes to the page, but I can't seem to find a "play" button, and after 5 minutes, still nothing happens.
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It still says "opening page http://... at the bottom, but how long should it take?
Thanks. |
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Andy Volk
From:
Boston, MA
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Posted 5 Feb 2006 9:13 am
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| Mike, is your compilation on VHS - only or also on DVD? |
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Ben Jones
From:
Seattle, Washington, USA
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Posted 5 Feb 2006 11:28 am
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Todd, the show was a real let down and not just because of the heartbreakin lack of steel. For some reason i cannot phathom, the opening band played for an hour and a half! They were good but after an hour and a half of two minute songs...they just wore us down. Waynes trio was fabulous as was the man himself. Maybe I am just gettin too old for live music. There were no seats, it was super crowded and that marathon by the opening band. Ungh.
I am sure Speedy wouldnt have done that to me |
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Mike Ihde
From:
Boston, MA
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Posted 11 Feb 2006 8:49 pm
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Andy and others, I only have it on VHS at the moment. Someday when I get the time I'll dump it in my Mac and make a DVD from it and other cool tapes I have. But, for now it's VHS, sorry.
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Matt Lange
From:
Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 12 Feb 2006 10:56 am
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| I've never seen Speedy before, that guy can really play |
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