Steel player for Bellamy Brothers??

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Patrick Layher
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Steel player for Bellamy Brothers??

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The Bellamy Brothers are gonna be in town in December and I'm wondering will they have a steel player and if so, who will it be?

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Gaylon Mathews
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Larry Rolens plays steel for the Bellamy's.

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How long has he been with them?
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Nice web site Gaylon. I hope all that traveling and playing isn't as fun as it looks!

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Probably a couple of years. Larry is Gretchen's ex husband and his brother Bobby is one of our guitar players and my roommate out here on the Gretchen tour.

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Danny Jones does all the session work for the Bellamy Brothers and yes Larry plays for them on tour. I met Danny when he was picking with Martin Del Ray on the road a few years back. Great person and a super picker.

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I hope I'm not spreading any misinformation here but I believe that Danny Jones is deceased(for a few years now)I happened to have been playing steel for Martin for the biggest part of his earlier career and I believe that Danny did dates with him later. He most certainly did some tasty and fitting playing on the Bellamy's first albums. Respectfully submitted, RK

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Contact info Larry Rolens ?

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Hi, - could anyone please help me with contact info for Larry Rolens ? The Bellamy Brothers visit norway in september and our band are engaged to do support for them. :D If possible it would be nice to contact him in advance. All the best !
Roar :)
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Rick Kornacker wrote:I hope I'm not spreading any misinformation here but I believe that Danny Jones is deceased(for a few years now)I happened to have been playing steel for Martin for the biggest part of his earlier career and I believe that Danny did dates with him later. He most certainly did some tasty and fitting playing on the Bellamy's first albums. Respectfully submitted, RK

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Roar,

Sending his contact info to you via direct email. I've met him a few times when I was with Johnny Lee and Janie Fricke. We did some package shows with them.. Great guy and player....

Danny
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I've always thought that the steel accompanyment to "If I Said You Had A Beautiful Body" was one of the nicest ever...
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Danny, thank You for helping me about this :) I look forward to meet him and the rest of the band.
Roar.
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I hadn't heard of Danny's passing. Man what a shock! We did some shows together back when he was with Martin Delray. Thinking back I guess that had to be about 11 or 12 years ago. Gosh where does time go? He will be missed. Thanks for the update Rick.
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I met Danny here in Kingsport several years ago. He played for an artist whose name I forget, (not the Bellamy Bros.)he was real friendly and played a JCH so we had something in common. A super nice guy.

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