The Steel Guitar Forum

Have YOU....... ever had the opportunity to meet your favorite steel guitarist idol?

I've been fortunate to meet Billy Robinson, JERRY BYRD, Speedy West, Lloyd Green, Jeff Newman and LT Zinn.

I'm now satisfied.....altho' it would be fun/nice to meet other really top stars.

I've met Emmons and Day. I'm satisfied with that.

I met two great steel player gentlemen before they passed-Don Helms and Herby Wallace. Two of the best!

Yup, And he's such a sweetie-pie. I had to make him another shirt since he grew out of the first one I made him 35 years ago.







My buddy, J.D. Call, Pure Prairie League!

I've met Buddy Emmons and was friends with Lynn Frazier - back when he was in high school. His family played on the Midnight Jamboree after the Opry (at the Ryman) one night at E.T.'s Record Shop. Buddy Emmons was there and after the family's gig someone joked that "Emmons just broke his (Lynn's)fingers". He was amazing - and so was Emmons. This was in the 1963 timeframe. Lynn must have been 14 years old and played a Fender.

A long, long time ago.

Not a steel player, but I met and jammed with Barney Kessel once. My feet did not touch the ground for over a week.

Yep..........even got to pick with some of them. 'course they had to play down on my level. I've been really lucky.

Met Jerry Byrd, and some forum friends over the years

Ray I met YOU.

Larry Behm

First steel player I ever met was Stoney Stonecipher at Dollywood-he is the man who got me into playin' steel guitar in 1998-that was fourteen years ago. I met a lot of my steel heroes like John Hughey, Paul Franklin, Don Helms, Tim Sergent, Randle Currie, Teddy Carr, Lloyd Green, and so many others. I think my steel's builders, David, Harry, and Dawn Jackson can be heroes too because they built my best steel with the sound I've been lookin' for for almost thirteen years.

Brett

I've feel that I've been incredibly blessed in my professional life to have met and become friends with so many of the greats of steel guitar, but I would say that friendships with Speedy West, Jimmy Day, Buddy Emmons, and Joaquin Murphey are standouts to me because I learned so much of how it was done back in the day from the masters themselves.

and LARRY..........

I've met YOU!

You're simply too kind........

I have had the privlidge of meeting my favorite steel player, Buddy Emmons. I have met Paul Franklin, John Hughey, Jeff Newman, Mike Sigler, Herby Wallace, Jay Fee Maness, Jr. Knight, Joe Wright, Zane King and Gary Carpentar. All of these men have made an impact on my playing steel guitar.

I've had a cyber toddy with Gary Lee Gimble. Does that count?

The one and only Jay Dee. I was fortunate to have met him when he was a teen-ager and playing his little 6 string lap. What an great man and player.