R I P Bryan Adams

Mike Sweeney · Post by **Mike Sweeney** » 28 Feb 2013 3:12 am

Just got the word that Bryan Adams lost his battle with cancer sometime before 4:00 AM EST this morning.
It's with a heavy heart I pass this along for I've known Bryan since I was a kid in high school.
I will post arrangements when I have them.

Kevin Mincke · Post by **Kevin Mincke** » 28 Feb 2013 3:21 am

Very sad, our thoughts and prayers with the family through this difficult time.

Ben ODell · Post by **Ben ODell** » 28 Feb 2013 3:34 am

That wasn't the news we wanted to hear Mike. SO SAD, but thank you so much for posting.

I have known Bryan since 1962, as were were stationed at Tyndall Air Force Base Florida.

GOOD-BYE to a great friend so many yaers. Still love you "BROTHER"

Please keep us posted Mike.
Ben ODell

Roger Kelly · Post by **Roger Kelly** » 28 Feb 2013 4:20 am

My condolences to Bryans wife and family in this time of sorrow.

Steve Leonard · Post by **Steve Leonard** » 28 Feb 2013 4:25 am

I am deeply saddened to hear this news. I have lost a dear friend that I have known for many years and shared a lot of good times with. Our thoughts and prayers are with Carolyn and family.

Mike Sweeney · Post by **Mike Sweeney** » 28 Feb 2013 5:04 am

Here's B.A. at a steel show Steve Leonard put on a few years back. Note the late Jim Unger on fiddle too.

Dennis Wireman · Post by **Dennis Wireman** » 28 Feb 2013 5:15 am

Another great one gone will be missed .I was hoping and praying for a different out come, but God knows best, make God be with Carolyn and family

Doug Palmer · Post by **Doug Palmer** » 28 Feb 2013 5:23 am

Sad news for the Steel Guitar community. I worked with Bryan at Emmons Guitar back in the late 70's and early 80's and learned a lot from him. I will miss not only his great knowledge of the Steel but his wonderful sense of humor. Prayers for Bryan.

Mike Hoover · Post by **Mike Hoover** » 28 Feb 2013 5:47 am

So sorry to hear this. Served with Bryan in the Air Force in early 60's in Fla. We played music together in the Panama City area for a good while. The steel community has lost a great personality and player. Carolyn and family may The Heavenly Father hold you and comfort you at this time.

Mike

David Martin · Post by **David Martin** » 28 Feb 2013 6:53 am

Bryan was a friend to so many...I spent a lot of time at Bryan's house jaming, joking and having a great time all day. I learned a lot from Bryan...he made everyone feel on the same level playing wise. He was eager to share his vast knowledge. I will miss his stories and his mild manner. Rest in peace my friend.

Mike Neer · Post by **Mike Neer** » 28 Feb 2013 7:13 am

RIP Bryan. Condolences to his friends and family.

George Crowder · Post by **George Crowder** » 28 Feb 2013 7:54 am

My condolences to the family.

Another great steeler gone home. I first met him at the jam he put on in Mountain City, TN a few years ago. I liked him and his playing right away and bought a couple of his CDs at the jam. Then I saw him again at the shows Steve and his dad did in Bristol.

Jerry Fleming · Post by **Jerry Fleming** » 28 Feb 2013 8:32 am

I am very saddened to hear of Bryan's passing. My prayers are with Carolyn, Bryan's friends and extended family. Today we lost one of my heroes and a dear friend.

Rest in Peace my friend you will never be forgotten.

Roger Rettig · Post by **Roger Rettig** » 28 Feb 2013 8:42 am

This is a great loss to our community. He was a very special person and I'm proud to have known him.

Manfred Schall · Post by **Manfred Schall** » 28 Feb 2013 8:44 am

Very sad news indeed.
RIP Bryan. I will miss you.
My condolences goes out to Carolyn and the family.
Manfred

Mike Johnson · Post by **Mike Johnson** » 28 Feb 2013 9:19 am

Heaven has gained a good one. Our prayers are with Bryan's family. I'm so glad God gave me the opportunity to speak to Bryan a couple of months back. I got the chance to thank him for building me one of the most incredible PUSH PULL EMMONS in the world. MY RED ONE.

Bryan, thanks for sharing your talents with us.
"Rest In Peace Pal"

MIKE JOHNSON

Tony Dingus · Post by **Tony Dingus** » 28 Feb 2013 9:32 am

I sure hate to hear this. I always enjoyed his playing and just visiting with him at our jams. I'll miss seeing and hearing him play. My prayers go out for his wife.

Tony

Harold Parris · Post by **Harold Parris** » 28 Feb 2013 9:42 am

I too have a heavy heart today. My friendship with Bryan was a great one and I know we will miss him very much. I was playing one of his cd's yesterday and thinking of what a great person and steel player he was. May God bless Carolyn and may Bryan's soul rest in peace.

Mike Archer · Post by **Mike Archer** » 28 Feb 2013 9:45 am

Bryan has enriched and helped so many players
he is loved by all and my friend of 30 years
he suffered so much and now hes in a place of love and rest no more pian of suffering and in the arms of allmighty God
I will miss him so and so will countless others
Bryan I love you man
Mike

Charlie Powell · Post by **Charlie Powell** » 28 Feb 2013 9:49 am

I have been privileged to call Bryan a friend. I met Bryan shortly after beginning to play steel. Had some other mutual interests as well. I enjoyed going to Bryan's to pick, learn, laugh, haggle, and so on. I will share one particular memory.

About 6 months or so after I had bought a great sounding PP Bryan rebuilt, he acquired a particular Emmons ( for those that didn't know Bryan, he knew where lots of them were by S/N) he had wanted for several years. We had a local jam and Bryan brought and played it.

Just as he finished I walked up and he asked "what you think about that?" I replied, "well it sounds pretty good, but I found two things about it while you were playing that I think you should fix as soon as you get home."

He looked at me with disbelief and said "WHAT?" I'll never forget that look. I said, "the pedals are backwards, and its too dang short"

He answered me directly, "you're not blanking me out of another one! This one's mine". Then we had a big laugh.

I will miss his friendship. My condolences to the Carolyn and the family.

Dave Robbins · Post by **Dave Robbins** » 28 Feb 2013 9:59 am

Well...this is going to be a long list of friends responding to the loss of B.A. so let me get on here now. Wanda and I are very heavy hearted to hearing of B.A's passing. We are surely going to miss our trips to Mountain City, Tn, where we would sit and drink coffee and talk steel guitars with B.A. for long hours. We both had a love for Beagle dogs and Cadillacs. I remember the first time we met, I pulled up in the driveway of his house where he met me at the car and said anybody driving a cadillac was OK in his book! That set a tone of friendship ever since.

Wanda and I will miss him greatly. Great steel guitarist, and one of the best push/pull mechanics around, and good friend. Our loss is heaven's gain. "To be absent from this life is to be present with the Lord." Bryan now joins God's list of the many other great steel guitarist.

Rest in peace, B.A.

Dave & Wanda Robbins

Ronnie Long · Post by **Ronnie Long** » 28 Feb 2013 10:04 am

I am so sad to hear this. My prayers go out to Carolyn and family. Bryan was my hero, and great friend. I will always miss my buddy.

Dave Diehl · Post by **Dave Diehl** » 28 Feb 2013 10:54 am

Yes, a big loss to our community of Steel Guitar. Bryan was as big a person at heart as he was a steel guitar mechanics expert. I am sadden to hear he was ill and now the worst has happened. Blessings to his family. They are in my thougths.

Lynn Stafford · Post by **Lynn Stafford** » 28 Feb 2013 10:54 am

I'd also like to send my condolences to Bryans wife, Carolyn and family and express my deepest sympathy for my friend, Bryan. I'm so glad I was just able to speak with him not long ago for one last time. I'd gotten to know him over the last several years, while buying or trading Emmons parts from each other. It didn't take very long for us to establish a mutual friendship. I regret that I never had the opportunity to have met him in person, or the see him perform. May he rest in peace.

Sincerely,
Lynn Stafford

Post by **Brad Bechtel** » 28 Feb 2013 11:47 am

RIP Bryan. My condolences to his friends and family.

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