The Steel Guitar Forum

Mike,
Jerry was the steel player on the live Japanese album and actually may be the most recorded steel player with Buck. He is the person who did the Hee Haw shows and did a ton of albums with Buck. Surprisingly, he gets little credit for this. If you click on this link, it will take you to allmusic and a list of the recordings he did with Buck. http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Blhjw7ipjg77r



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Steve Stallings
Bremond, Texas

Regarding who played on the Japanese recordings:

Looking over the Buck Owens discography on allmusic.com, it looks like there are two different live albums recorded in Japan.

There's the one from 1967 called "In Japan!" which was re-released by Sundazed and has Tom Brumley on it.

Then there also appears to be one called "Live in Japan" from 1974. That one would most likely have had Jerry Brightman on it (I think).

Very True, Very True, Jerry recorded lots with Buck. But he also had an awsome intro and solo on a Susan Raye tune also, if you get the chance check it out "Love sure feels good in my heart" its awsome.
As far a definative Tom Brumley, I love the stuff he did with The Buckaroos, If you don't own it its a must have "The Don Rich Anthology" Wow Don was Great.

Hello,

I'm posting this at the encouragement of
some of my professional friends, so please
don't confuse ego with pride . I was
allowed to be a small part of a great
country music legend, and felt the need to
share some things.

I thought I would run out of the closet for
a moment, and add the links below to perhaps
add some more information for you guys. In
regards to the Japan Album, there were two
done..one with Tom and one with myself. The
one done by Tom is the more recognized one
for sure. I have always considered myself a
second generation Buckaroo with Tom, Don,
Doyle, and Willie being the original
generation.

After Tom, JayDee joined the band in 1969
and stayed for 9 months. There wasn't a
steel player in the band until I joined in
1972. Buck was moving the music back to his
roots and songs such as "Ain't It Amazing
Gracie, Arms Full of Empty, Ain't Gonna have
Ole Buck, Palm of your Hand, etc. were
hitting the charts. I left the band a little
while after Don had died in 1976. I quit
playing all together in 1980. I opted to
raise my family as opposed to being a full
time musician. At the time of my career
with Buck, I was 18 and pretty quiet about
things. Being on Hee-Haw every week was
just a part of the job. When I left the
band, I really didn't think it would matter
much to anyone. Now, at the age of nearly
50, I have decided to begin playing again on
a limited basis. Looking back upon my
career, I have discovered things that I
forgot I did recording wise..so I sure
wouldn't expect anyone else to know it. My
job as a steel player was to provide a
different style and sound for each of the
Buck Owens artists in addition to Buck’s
records. This included all of Susan Raye
albums after LA International Airport and
three with Tony Booth in addition to other
artists.

I have come to the realization that you
cannot be what people won't allow you to be,
and I’m content with being a nobody, but I
do so much enjoy and love the steel guitar
and hope that I can contribute something
back to it as it was always a prideful
moment in my life. I am booked at 13 steel
shows this year, recording my first CD, and
I really look forward to meeting as many of
you as possible….

Thanks for reading this long-winded post,
but I felt the need to come forward and say
something to you guys.

Special thanks to Red and Steve for thier support. They posted while I was writing my original post.

Warmest regards,

Jerry Brightman http://www.slidestation.com http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Blhjw7ipjg77r
<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Jerry Brightman on 11 December 2001 at 08:05 AM.]</p></FONT>

Man do I love this place....
THIS is the kind of great info and exchange that makes me really tickled to be a small part of the forum. Thanks to Jerry for the clarification.:

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Steve Stallings
Bremond, Texas

<SMALL>Trivia: Who came up with the name "Buckaroos" ?</SMALL>

Merle Haggard when he was playing bass for Buck.

Yo Jerry, good to see you on this topic.
Any fans of Buck who are really into the more obscure side of things should note that in the 1974 period Buck was touring heavily and did quite a bit of overseas work in the 1970s.
As with the 1967 and 1969 live set (recorded in Japan and the U.K. respectively); he toured and decided to cut an album to give the local fans something to purchase that was a tad more personal. A live album recorded in their own country.
So there's a live in Australia, Japan, etc set issued by various countries on their local Capitol Records (or affiliate), this was a pretty cool idea and I've noticed Pearl Jam have been doing it on a far larger scale, but this is 2001 and ol' Buck was doing it in the mid 1970s.

Yo Jason,

It's always a pleasure reading your vast knowledge of the west coast world....I was a little hesitant to post, but the emails I've received today seems to put my mind at ease that my comments were understood, as I intended them to be...

Thanks to you, and all of the great folks that took time to email me today. I can not express what it means to me...Thanks for allowing me to be a part of this...I hope to encourage others, if they choose to contact me through the website with any questions they may have.

Jerry

Hi Jerry, cool to see you here again.
In regards to Buck's 1974 live album, the one recorded at the Sydney Opera House.. if anyone has a copy please let me know, I'd like to know what's on it or buy a copy.
It's a real toughie to track down.

On a side note, the Buck Owens fan club here used to issue compilation albums on Bucks sides, these were not commercially available, and not on Capitol either. They listedthe fan club, but there was no year of release on the sleeve. How this worked is beyond me as Buck and Capitol issued the labums locally.

Like an idiot I didn't buy one example I saw a few years back due to the fact that I had all the songs on other albums. Looking back and thinking about it, this was an interesting collectors piece!

Steve, Great thread! You da' guy!
Drizzle Fritz , your buddy.

Gee Bobbe, last week I WAS your buddy!!!
HO HO HO!!!

My absolute favorite with Brumley is that Carnagie Hall album. I suppose because the Bakersfield engineers didn't get hold of the steel and make it sound like a band saw. Nothing wrong with a band saw, mind you, but Brumley's tone is smooth as velvet on that CD, as it is live.

I love all the early Mooney stuff, it's hard to pick a winner. Just get a boxed set.

I never heard a Buck Owens album that I didn't like, from the first one I owned(Buck Owens sings Harlan Howard to the last one I found(a fine copy of the Carnegie Hall album). I have never seen Buck live, but maybe some day I'll get to the Crystal Palace.

jerry was that you on the album "in the palm of your hand" @ 1973. do you know who played the break on "lookin back to see" with buck and susan raye?

Ebb,

I played on Palm of your Hand...I'm not sure who did "Lookin Back to see"..It might have been Buddy Emmons...I'll try to listen to the album over the weekend and let you know for sure.

Steve, thanks for the compliments about Buck's albums.

Jerry http://www.slidestation.com
<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Jerry Brightman on 14 December 2001 at 11:44 AM.]</p></FONT>

I've had a wonderful time this morning. I've spent way too much time at the sundazed records website www.sundazed.com listening to 30 second clips of Buck tunes.
Lots of neat steel work.

I wish that Buck would release a compilation of performances off of Hee-Haw on DVD. That would be fun.

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Steve Stallings
Bremond, Texas


<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Steve Stallings on 14 December 2001 at 12:10 PM.]</p></FONT>