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Topic: What Instruments does Buddy Emmons Play ? |
Alan Brookes
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Posted 16 Jan 2010 5:33 pm |
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| In addition to pedal steel, we've seen plenty of evidence of Buddy playing bass. With his talents, I'm sure he's played other instruments over the years. Anyone have any information ? |
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scott murray
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Posted 16 Jan 2010 6:02 pm
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he's an extremely capable guitarist from what i've heard. i just haven't heard it.
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Greg Cutshaw
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Corry, PA, USA
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Posted 16 Jan 2010 6:50 pm
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Quote from a review about the Ernest Tubb Record Shop album:
"Bobby Garrett supplies the required country ambience on pedal steel, while the lead guitar duties are doubled up between Grady Martin and Buddy Emmons, the latter more famous as a pedal steel man but certainly not a lazybones on the smaller axe either."
Buddy played lead on a few other ET cuts and I'll dig up a sample of his guitar playing there if I get a chance.
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Bobby Bowman
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Cypress, Texas, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 16 Jan 2010 7:26 pm Buddy and Guitar
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I can't remember the album's name, but Buddy recorded a tune on guitar I'm pretty sure was called "El Goto Diablo",,,,"The Devil Cat".
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Brett Day
From:
Pickens, SC
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Posted 16 Jan 2010 7:35 pm
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I've read somewhere that in addition to steel, he also plays piano and bass.
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John Bresler R.I.P.
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Thornton, Colorado
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Posted 16 Jan 2010 7:39 pm
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I once heard a story that Buddy needed a job and roger Miller already had a steel player but needed a drummer and Buddy went on the road playing drums for Roger.
Buddy just has the touch and could probably play any instrument he wanted to.
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Paddy Long
From:
Christchurch, New Zealand
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Posted 16 Jan 2010 8:49 pm
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John I think you will find Buddy played Bass for Roger Miller - for about 9 years I think !!
he's also a pretty useful singer !!
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Billy Tonnesen
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R.I.P., Buena Park, California
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Posted 16 Jan 2010 10:43 pm
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Back in the 60's I was playing with the Saturday Night Western Swing Band at the Harmony Park Ballroom in Anaheim, Ca. (So.Calif.) when Ernest Tubb was booked in. There was just Ernest and Buddy Emmons playing the Billy Bird licks on Lead Guitar.
The rest of us got to play behind Ernest and Buddy when they were on. After the first Intermission I got talking with Buddy and he asked if he could sit in for a little on my Fender 1000 Steel. (I was hoping he'd ask}. He sat down to my Steel and found out what my pedals did. Well, he took off as if he'd been playing my Steel all his life. I'm sure my setup was not anything like his but after a few bars he played things I did not know could be done on a A6th and E13th tuning. What a super Guy ! |
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Per Berner
From:
Skovde, Sweden
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Posted 17 Jan 2010 2:49 am
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| "El gato diablo" was on the Nashville Bar Association album (with Hughey/Hicks/Crawford), if my memory is working properly. |
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Roger Rettig
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Naples, FL
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Posted 17 Jan 2010 6:41 am
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I'm hesitant to post this, because I'm going to feel silly, I think....
Years ago I had a cassette of a Bobby Garrett album - loads of great thumbstyle from BG, of course, but I also recall some amazing vibes-playing. It was credited to Buddy Emmons, and certainly there were many familiar phrases within the solos. As he apparently has some skills on piano, I'm wondering if those 'vibes' parts were the real thing, or were they Buddy's steel through some sort of sound processor?
I wish I still had it; it did sound exactly like what he might have played on steel, but still I wonder!
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Sonny Jenkins
From:
Texas Masonic Retirement Center,,,Arlington Tx
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Posted 17 Jan 2010 8:39 am
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| Roger,,since BE spent so much time with Blondie Calderon in the Cherokee Cowboys band,,,(and Blondie was an awesome vibe player), maybe he picked up some stuff from him????? (2+2=4) |
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Roger Rettig
From:
Naples, FL
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Posted 17 Jan 2010 8:52 am
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Could be, Sonny - I wasn't aware of that. From memory, though, the playing on this album was really first-rate and showed a pretty solid level of accomplishment. I know nothing of the percussion family of instruments, so my impressions are not to be relied upon.
He sounds (on the album) just as fluid on vibes as he does on steel guitar!
Buddy: Are you reading this, and can you enlighten me?
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John Swain
From:
Winchester, Va
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Posted 17 Jan 2010 9:49 am Raisin The Dickens
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| Buddy played the guitar twinning the lead on the "Black Album" on "RTD"..JS |
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Jim Smith
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Midlothian, TX, USA
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Posted 17 Jan 2010 10:47 am
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I wonder if Buddy might have used his IVL SteelRider for the vibes sound on the Bobby Garrett album?
I think Scotty said that Buddy redid the drum track on a track of one of the ISGC albums. |
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Bill Ford
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Graniteville SC Aiken
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Posted 17 Jan 2010 4:27 pm
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I think I remember reading that Buddy used some sort of processor for the vibes part, midi maybe. If you listen closely, you will hear the traditional BE C6 jazz type licks.
Bill
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Roger Rettig
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Naples, FL
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Posted 17 Jan 2010 4:42 pm
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Yes, Bill - I already said that the figures he played were very close to his C6 approach; that's why I was questioning it. However, they're just musical 'lines' - nothing to prevent another instrument playing them.
The reason I said I was afraid to sound 'silly' was that I'd wondered if in fact this 'vibes' part had been 'simulated' somehow, and that it was common knowledge around here.
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John Bresler R.I.P.
From:
Thornton, Colorado
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Posted 17 Jan 2010 7:34 pm
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I read a Q&A on Buddy's web page that says he played all the backup instruments for the rhythmn tracks for "Half Duzen Shuffles" except for the drum machine. That shows a lot of talent to me!!!
Maybe Ernie could enlighten us.
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Ernest Cawby
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Lake City, Florida, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 17 Jan 2010 8:30 pm hi
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If you are refering to me, I have o knowledge about Buddy, much to my sorrow.
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Brint Hannay
From:
Maryland, USA
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Posted 17 Jan 2010 10:17 pm
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I'm guessing he meant Ernie Renn.
Buddy played very convincing synth flute and trumpet on "Oleo" on his One For The Road album--played on steel, but with phrasing that sounds to my ear quite idiomatic for the respective instruments. |
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Ernie Renn
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Brainerd, Minnesota USA
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Posted 18 Jan 2010 3:44 am
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I'm guessing if it was Buddy playing vibes, (and not keyboard player Bobby Emmons,) that it was the SteelRider. He used it nicely on the Christmas album. I doubt I would've known, but there's a lick with pedal action. Tt's hard to tell.
I believe Buddy plays piano, guitar, bass, dobro and steel guitar (obviously.) And who knows what else...
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scott murray
From:
Asheville, NC
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Posted 18 Jan 2010 11:32 am
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that picture still cracks me up 
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James Cann
From:
Phoenix, AZ
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Posted 18 Jan 2010 9:24 pm
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| And were all this not enough, I remember seeing an interview where he commented on his "getting pretty good" on the violin before he came to steel. Interesting, too, was his choice of words: "violin," not "fiddle." |
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Jack Stanton
From:
Somewhere in the swamps of Jersey
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Posted 20 Jan 2010 10:29 am
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| On the "Live From Denver" CD, Scotty relates a story that Buddy overdubbed the drums on Lloyd Green's "I Can See Clearly Now" on Live from the International Steel Guitar Convention, Vol. 3, due to the original drummer's poor performance. |
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Jim Smith
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Midlothian, TX, USA
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Posted 20 Jan 2010 1:38 pm
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| Jack Stanton wrote: |
| On the "Live From Denver" CD, Scotty relates a story that Buddy overdubbed the drums on Lloyd Green's "I Can See Clearly Now" on Live from the International Steel Guitar Convention, Vol. 3, due to the original drummer's poor performance. |
Yep, that's the story I was thinking of.  |
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Paul E. Brennan
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Dublin, Ireland
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