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hey there gang,

This Saturday night, December 3rd, we'll have NOKIE EDWARDS with VENTURESMANIA! The show is at Joe's Great American Bar & Grill, 4311 W. Magnolia, Burbank, CA 91505.

In addition to having Nokie, Venturesmania (made up of myself, Garrett Immel, Mel Bergman and Chris Sprague), we'll also have DJ Dan Moses spinning the wax, the first opportunity to buy the new CD by Nokie & Venturesmania "Bound and Sidejacked Again," and a Mosrite museum with rare guitars and amps that will blow your mind!

I know this isn't a show directly related to steel guitar. But Nokie & the Ventures kept Red Rhodes doing sessions for years....Nokie used to play with Buck Owens in the late 1950's....and we have some cool pedal steel parts on the new Nokie CD. In addition, it's hard to think of a more influential player in the history of GUITAR....period. Come on down, it'll be a blast!

The show starts at 9:30pm. Cover charge is $15.00. See you there!

Deke

Hi Deke,
Nokie is one of my all time favorites. His contributions to instrumental music probably shaped my taste in music as much as Buddy Emmons on the steel guitar. Please say hi from a longtime fan.
Chuck

Hi Deke,
I'm a big fan! (was just watching "Guitar Geek Fest #5 the other night) Your playing and line-ups are fantastic and humbling, to say the least!
Garret is a fellow make-up artist & friend. What a great player!
I've had this marked on my calandar for a couple weeks...
I'll be there if there's room!
Rick

I believe it would be impossible to come up with a figure of how many guitar players were influenced by NOKIE..
This picture was taken upstairs at the old Cajuns Wharf in Nashville during a banquet given to the Ventures after finishing playing downstairs for a reunion tour..Nokie the following year toured with David Frizzell for a while..

I could write pages about how much Nokie influenced me. I first met him when I was 21 and playing a 6 night a week gig and Nokie was coming in with a band on Sunday nights and he was playing thru my amp. Really got to know him well a couple of years later when a club in Puyallup WA had an after hours jam 2-6 AM on Friday and Saturday. Nokie would come in and wait out a few of the shower singers and start playing around 3:30 in the morning and keep going sometimes til around 8 when the manager would tell him they had to stop because businesses next door were opening up. Never known anyone as prolific as Nokie. He could play instrumentals for hours. Hard to meet a nicer person as well.
I learned as much about attitude as well as playing from Nokie. If someone asked him to play Walk don't Run, which I'm sure he'd has his fill of, no problem, he'd play it with a smile. Great joke teller as well.
One of my favorite Nokie quips: "you know my favorite pick up line? Can I buy you a car?"
Glad to see he's still playing great and having fun.

Anyone know Nokie email....I have a 1965 Mosrite 12 string solid body electric Ventures model he might be interested in...the real thing....