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Topic: Norm Hamlet/Barbara Mandrell |
Bent Romnes
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London,Ontario, Canada
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Posted 26 Apr 2007 6:22 am |
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| What year(s) was it that Norman Hamlet taught Barbara Mandrell to play the pedal steel? |
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Mark Eaton
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Sonoma County in The Great State Of Northern California
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Posted 26 Apr 2007 7:02 am
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Bent-that sounds like a question for "Steel Guitar Jeopardy."
If someone can come up with this one, I'll be impressed!
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John Roche
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England
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Posted 26 Apr 2007 7:16 am
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| 1957 ish |
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Bent Romnes
From:
London,Ontario, Canada
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Posted 26 Apr 2007 10:03 am
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Thanks John, 1957... are you sure of this? And how long did he teach her?
Mark, Yeah..kinda like a jeopardy question.
Maybe the only one to come up with the answer would be Norm himself...Or Barbara, if she is on here...
Norm, if you're the one to answer, I have a great picture of you with your steel when you were in London Ontario with Merle back about 20 years...
Bent |
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Andy Sandoval
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Bakersfield, California, USA
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Posted 26 Apr 2007 10:16 am
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| I'll bet he didn't have to tutor her for very long. That gal is quite talented and can play a lot of different instruments. |
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John Roche
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England
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Posted 26 Apr 2007 12:49 pm
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Barbara was playing steel at the age of nine,
Barbara Mandrell was born in Houston, Texas, on Christmas Day in 1948..She began playing the accordion when she was five and the steel-pedal guitar when she was nine.
http://www.barbaramandrell.net/bio.html |
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norm hamlet
From:
bakersfield ca. usa
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Posted 26 Apr 2007 6:30 pm Barbara`s steel guitar teacher
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I started teaching Barbara around 1958 going on 59 she was 9years old and by the time she was 10 she was playing a lot of steel instrumentals that I had shown her. She was a natural and she played everything I showed her after a couple of times. I taught her how to pick block and palm block, I learned how to pick block from Vance Terry back in 1954. She is a good steel player and good musician, a lot of people think she just learned enough to get by. Let me tell you that is not true, because she was a good musician before she started to sing.
Norm. |
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Bent Romnes
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London,Ontario, Canada
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Posted 26 Apr 2007 6:50 pm
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Wow..Thanks Norm. I guess that settles that. It is great to get it from the top! I'll get those pictures to you somehow.
Thanks again
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John Roche
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England
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Posted 26 Apr 2007 10:06 pm
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Hi Norm,
Great to see on the forum, we met way back about 1982 at the Wembley Country festival in the UK, still got your autograph along with Merle's Buddy and Lloyd.
as i remember we sat and talked back stage for a while.
I was the steel player for Frank Ifield, happy days |
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Willis Vanderberg
From:
Petoskey Mi
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Posted 27 Apr 2007 10:56 am
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Here is another piece of trivia....The Fender 400 that barbra was playing with Norm now resides in Manistee Michigan with Jerry Hendrix, a great steel picker.There is more to this story...Jerry are you out there ?.....
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norm hamlet
From:
bakersfield ca. usa
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Posted 27 Apr 2007 11:51 am Barbara Mandrell
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Hello Bent, If that picture was 20 years ago I bet I look a little younger than I am now, I would love to have a copy if possible.
and John I remember talking backstage at Wembley and that was a fun show.
Andy I really did`nt think I was teaching
Barbara, I felt like I was showing her what I was doing and she would take and run with it. She really is a natural musician and could learn anything she was interested in doing.
Norm |
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Bent Romnes
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London,Ontario, Canada
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Posted 27 Apr 2007 2:09 pm
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Hi Norm, well you'll have to pm or email me with an address I can send the photos to.
I am not sure of the exact year. But you were playing an Excel and you looked like a million bucks. |
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