Al Perkins with The Burritto Brothers-1971

Kevin Hatton · From: Buffalo, N.Y.

Here is an interesting clip of Al Perkins playing with The Last Of The Red Hot Burrittos in 1971. I opened for this band on Long Island about a week after this was shot. Al Perkins was the first steel guitar player that I ever saw live and is responsible for me playing today. Yes thats Chris Hillman and Michael Clark (Drums)from The Byrds. Al is playing his Fender 1000.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwPTYimAE7E

Dave Zirbel · From: Sebastopol, CA USA

That was pretty cool!

Skip Edwards · From: LA,CA

Cool... Rick Roberts on gtr & Byron Berline on fiddle, along with Chris, Al & Mike.

Dom Franco · From: Beaverton, OR, 97007

Al is a great player I learned a lot from Him. He told me he had always wanted to play like Tom Brumley.
(You can hear some similarites in his style)

Al Perkins produced an album for our band BETHLEHEM in 1977. At that time I was playing a Fender 2000 that looked a lot like the Instument he was playing in that video (only with two 10 string necks of course.)

Al liked my playing but said I was being limited by that old Fender Pedal steel (cables and pulleys, with home made add on knee levers) He told me to get a new guitar. So I bought a new Shobud LDG from Blackie Taylor's Music Store.

I finished the album with the old pedal steel while I was getting used to the new one. I could not afford to keep the old Fender, and I sold it for $500.00 I wish I still had it now!

Al Played his pull string tele on a song I wrote and I got to produce his tracks!

Dom Franco

http://www.freewebs.com/steelman777/bethlehem.htm

Al Terhune · From: Newcastle, WA

That's great, Kevin -- neat you got to open up for those guys and get inspired to play steel! This past weekend I listened to Al play on some early Dan Fogelberg (2nd and 3rd albums).
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One heck of a Wife
The ghost of a red Doberman
Several pairs of reading glasses strewn about

Olli Haavisto · From: Jarvenpaa,Finland

The steel player`s shirt looks a bit like what Buddy or Weldon might have worn...Are you sure it`s Al ? Very Happy

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Jim Sliff · From: Lawndale California, USA

FWIW the other guitar player (besides Rick Roberts) is Kenny Wertz. After Chris and Al left to hook up with Stills (and Michael sometime after) they recruited Roger Bush (The Kentucky Colonels former bass player) to play bass full-time (upright and electric), banjo genius Alan Munde on banjo AND Tele (Kenny Wertz having played banjo earlier), Byron on both fiddle and mando, Don Beck on steel, a couple different drummers - they played some shows under the "Hot Burrito Revue" name - 2/3 Burritos material, 1/3 Country Gazette's bluegrass stuff (a transitional version heard on "Last of the Red Hot Burritos where Roger is playing just upright bass, Chris is onmando and I've been told it's Alan on banjo...and Al seems to be missing ).

I saw one show in Long Beach just before the whole thing petered out, and it was amazingly good - the surprising part being Alan Mude just ripping it up on Tele. They also did the old bluegrass gimmick of playing Foggy Mountain Breakdown with 3 banjos (Alan, Kenny and Roger), each guy finger one of the other player's necks. Dorky, but a crowd-pleaser. Love to find a boot of one of those shows (the one vinyl release with Beck doesn't have Munde on guitar).
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1930's/40's Rickenbacher/Rickenbacker 6&8 string lap steels
1921 Weissenborn Style 2; Hilo&Schireson hollownecks
Appalachian, Regal & Dobro squarenecks
1959 Fender 400 9+2 B6;1960's Fender 800 3+3+2; 1948 Fender Dual-8 Professional

David Wright · From: Pilot Point ,Tx USA.

you know it was going to be a great concert when they hired the "Hell's Angels " to run Security..)))

Josh Haislip · From: Midland, Texas

Jim, I have heard a version with Munde playing tele and Banjo. It is the Live from Amersterdam Album. The last time I saw or heard it was in Munde's office at South Plains College. I have never seen another copy.

Russ Tkac · Posted 31 Jul 2007 6:53 am

Al's playing and his Fender 1000 sound great. Very Happy

Jim Sliff · From: Lawndale California, USA

Herb Steiner · From: Briarcliff TX 78669, pop. 2,064

I did a gig last year with Byron. Hadn't seen him in about 25 years, though we go back to when he'd just gotten out of the Army in 1966 and went to work for the Dillards. He hasn't changed his appearance at all in 36 years. Which goes to show you what a good effect running a little string shop in Guthrie OK will do for your constitution.

Four ex-bluegrassers, a hippie drummer, and a Texas-whatever-you-got musician put out some pretty good country back then. Smile

Whatever happened to Kenny Wertz? We used to play bluegrass together down in Sandy Ayego.
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Kevin Hatton · From: Buffalo, N.Y.

Herb, those are great memories. I remember going downstairs to the dressing rooms after some refreshmant. I was walking down the hallway when I heard the Country Gazette warming up with Berline and Hillman. I literally never heard Bluegrass before. I was awestruck by Byron Berline. The other guys were good, but I knew that I was looking at a world class fiddler when I saw Berline. I went back upstairs and told my band to get ready for a serious ass wupp'n and that we were in deep trouble. I was 19 and it literally woke me out of my narrow musical experience. These guys were so clean and so "on" it was scary.

David Wright · From: Pilot Point ,Tx USA.

your right... just screen it was on the Altamont.. funny I thought I saw a biker dragging a guy at the end of the clip/// well, I watched another clip same song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQMJUhlxR3M&mode=related&search=

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