The Steel Guitar Forum

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From the Everly Brothers playing live in Melbourne, Australia in 1989. Is this Buddy Emmons playing steel?

I would say yes, it is. I don't know of any other steel player that played with the Everly's but Buddy did for years. Took the liberty of brightening up your picture Alan.

I saw Buddy (and Albert Lee) with the Everlys at the Orange County Fair. There were 6,000 people in attendance.

They were ON FIRE. The Everlys and Buddy and Albert and a keyboard player whose name I don't know just kicked ass throughout the entire show. Rarely have I seen a performance with more energy and entheusiasm. Perhaps the size of the crowd had something to do with that.

Of course they played all their old hits, and it occurred to me afterward that they play these same songs every time they perform, and must be really tired of them. But if they were, it certainly didn't show.

Mike, that was most likely Glen D. Hardin on piano.
He has played with so many people; from Elvis to Merle.
Here are some records that he's played on. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/glen-d-h ... 13/credits .

Thanks so much Alan--man did that ever bring back some memories! Am most grateful for the Forum and YouTube to hear those super performances often for the first time.

Alan I was there fifty feet away and ditto to what Mike said they were on fire and Buddy was great as usual no surprises only pleasure hope he comes to Melbourne again with some jazz/country /swing/ blues band again.

sorry too many agains

When I saw them the last time in April of 2000 I believe it was Pete Wingfield playing keys. I'm not positive, but I think Glen D. Hardin was primarily a session player. It was also Jamie Hartford (John's son), on guitar. I think Albert was on tour in England.

Saw them at the Ryman here in Nashville in April of 1996 and it was just incredible. Stellar performances from all band members and it amazed me how Buddy wove his playing into songs where there had been no steel guitar before. Buddy was kind enough to get us a couple of tickets and Chet Atkins introduced them. A night to remember... still have the ticket stubs.

Well said, Buck - Buddy made it sound as if the steel part was a vital component of the songs!

Just a side-note - Martin Jenner played steel (as well as guitar) with D&P at the reunion concerts at the Albert Hall in London - Sept '83. Martin was a fine guitar player but a novice steel player at this point. This is just to set the record straight.

I saw them play in Birmingham, England, about five years ago, and they put on a magnificent show, incorporating both electric and acoustic music, with steel guitar and dobro. Don Everly at one stage said that he hadn't seen any pedal steel guitar in England and asked if anyone in the audience played pedal steel. I put my hand up and he asked where I was from, to which I replied San Francisco, and he laughed. Actuallly, I have lived in the San Francisco area for 35 years, but my hometown was originally Birmingham.

I've never understand why there are many people in the U.S. who don't accept the Everly Brothers as country singers. Their father, Ike Everly, was one of the hottest acts on the Grand Old Opry for years, and they were brought up on country music, which was 60% of their act.

So sad that there will be no more Everly Brothers performances. I guess it had to end some day, as everything does.

I think it's fair to say that, in Britain at least, we thought of the Everlys as country-tinged rock and roll. Maybe in the US everyone involved in their early days seemed anxious to downplay the country music connection (like losing the steel from Jimmy Day in the mix!!!) so as to keep them sounding 'hip'.

Much later, of course, it didn't matter at all and the Boys themselves gave full credit to their country music roots.

Alan: Only five years ago??? I thought they'd quit touring long before that.

I seem to recall them quitting right after 9-11 (i.e., in 2001)

True, Jim, but they did re-emerge to do that short tour with Simon & Garfunkel (using S&G's band, not Buddy & co) a few years back. Aside from that, I thought they'd thrown in the towel.

When I first moved to Nashville, I got a call to play sax w/ Duane Eddy in Kentucky for a coal miners benefit. Duane would come up in the middle of the Everly's set and do a short set of his hits w/ their band while Don and Phil took a break. The band was Buddy, Albert, Larry London, etc. I approached Buddy and asked him to learn a harmony part to play w/ me on a song that had twin saxes on the record ("Some Kinda Earthquake"). Buddy graciously complied and I have a photo of me showing him the part (I wrote it out - he said he read music a little bit.) I didn't play steel seriously yet and was only vaguely aware of his stature, so I was pretty bold, but he was totally cool. Don and Phil were the nicest guys.

Great story, Jim!

I saw the Everlys with Buddy, Albert and Larry Londin on a UK tour (early '90s, I think) in Brighton. Duane was on that tour too and he had a Nashville guy playing horn with him then - it wasn't you, was it?

I've been to several Everly Brothers shows in the East and Buddy introduced me to Glen at one of them. That was the late 90's/early 2000's and a real treat for me.

Roger, that was Denis Solee. Tall bald guy - ring a bell? I gave him the gig, because we'd just moved to town and my wife had just had a baby and we didn't have relatives to help if I were gone for 2 weeks.

Roger Rettig wrote:...Alan: Only five years ago??? I thought they'd quit touring long before that.

Gosh, time flies.
I just checked the date of that concert. It was at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, 14th November, 2005. It doesn't seem that long ago to me. Tempus fugit.

Does anyone know of a video of Buddy playing with the Everly Brothers between 1997 and 2001? Thank you in advance.

Jim - thank you!

Of course it was Denis Solee - I should have remembered. We all thought at the time: 'What a fine player!'

I saw this tour with Emmons and Lee in Ottawa in the summer of '89. I was 18 years old. Will never forget it.

What Charles Curtis said. Did they ever record any of those gigs? Video or audio?

I saw Buddy and Albert with the Everlys in 1993. A great show.

John and Charlie;

These two mp3 audio files are from Sugarmegs Streaming Music server. Right click and select Save As to save them to your computer.

EverlyBrothers 05-24-1997

EverlyBrothers 08-31-2000

These are video clips on YouTube of the concert in Melbourne in 89.

Wake Up Little Susie
All i Have To Do Is Dream
Til I Kissed Ya/Cathy's Clown
Let It Be Me
Bye Bye Love

This is the compiled version minus Bye Bye Love...Compilation of Melbourne

Enjoy!