Early Lloyd Green 1957

Allan Jirik · Post by **Allan Jirik** » 24 Apr 2016 7:52 am

I stumbled upon this today, very cool! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2sZSzQzMMA

Herb Steiner · Post by **Herb Steiner** » 24 Apr 2016 8:20 am

Great stuff!

Other pickers I recognize are Pete Wade on electric guitar, Shorty Lavender on fiddle, Johnny Johnson, rhythm guitar. The bass player was off-camera for the whole clip.

Susan Alcorn · Post by **Susan Alcorn** » 24 Apr 2016 12:18 pm

Interesting steel guitar.

Larry Jamieson · Post by **Larry Jamieson** » 25 Apr 2016 5:48 am

What brand is the guitar Faron is playing? Big body,
in-line head stock, I can't read the brand. Is that a Bigsby or something else? Interesting video... I hadn't seen any of the pre-pedal Lloyd before.

Abe Levy · Post by **Abe Levy** » 25 Apr 2016 3:37 pm

I would wager that Lloyd is playing pedals on his Bigsby...

Jim Park · Post by **Jim Park** » 25 Apr 2016 4:02 pm

It looks like there is only one pedal on Lloyds Bigsby.......but I hear two strings being raised, this must have been right before Buddy split the pedals

Susan Alcorn · Post by **Susan Alcorn** » 25 Apr 2016 4:59 pm

I think there are pedals (or pedal - I can't see very clearly) on one of the three necks. His playing does not sound like split-pedal. I'm sure that someone on this forum must know more about this. Still, it's exciting to hear a younger Lloyd Green playing in this style.

Mike Neer · Post by **Mike Neer** » 25 Apr 2016 6:24 pm

Great clip, thanks for posting.

The middle neck was his C6 neck, the back neck was his E neck, high G#, but the pedal only seemed to raise strings 3 and 4. Wonder what was on the front neck....

Chris Lucker · Post by **Chris Lucker** » 26 Apr 2016 2:44 am

Shot Jackson modified Bigsby. It had rods, if I recall.

robert kramer · Post by **robert kramer** » 26 Apr 2016 8:27 am

Here is an excellent overview of Lloyd Greenâ€™s career from Vintage Guitar magazine including a chronology of guitars he played.

http://www.vintageguitar.com/3683/lloyd-green/

The Bigsby in this clip is a three neck one pedal Bigsby owned by Faron Young. As Lloyd Green states in the VGM article â€“ he came to town playing a Fender Stringmaster with a homemade pedal mechanism. When he came on the Faron Young band â€“ Faron loaned him his three neck â€“ one pedal Bigsby. This is the guitar Lloyd played on George Jones' â€œToo Much Water"
in 1957.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t97WFfRNZ8o

19 March 1957 Bradley Film and Recording Studio, 804 16th Ave. South, Nashville, TN â€“ George Jones, * and Virginia Spurlock (George Jones [vcl], Virginia Spurlock [duet vcl-1], Hank Garland [gtr] Lloyd Green [stl gtr] + Shorty Lavender [fdl] Marvin Hughes [pno] Strollinâ€™ Tom Pritchard[ ac bs] T. Tommy Cutrer [drms] Producer: Pappy Daily)

053 ST-2565/YW-14758 GIVEAWAY GIRL MG-20477 SRW-16417 [alt.] Ace CH-139
054 ST-2566/YW-14759/PBE-158 TOO MUCH WATER 71096x45/MG-20306 SR-60793 SRW-16266
055 ST-2567/YW-14760/PBE-1421 FLAME IN MY HEART* -1 71141x45/MG 20350 MG-20477 SR-60990
056 ST-2568/YW-14761/PBE-1423 NO, NO NEVER 71141x45/Starday SLP-344 SLP-366 SLP-429 NLP-209

In addition to Herb Steinerâ€™s ID of the musicians in the â€œCountry Style USAâ€ the bass player @ 1:32 is Strollinâ€™ Tom Pritchard.

*** Lloyd Green has made a correction to the VGM article in which he refers to his 1970 Sho-Bud as a Baldwin â€œCrossover.â€ He has since corrected this to Sho-Bud Rack & Barrel. Later â€“ the C-6th was removed from this guitar making it the first LDG type guitar.

Dennis Bailey · Post by **Dennis Bailey** » 27 Apr 2016 12:56 am

That is awesome thanks for posting it! I love the look on Lyoyd's face at 2:00, it's like "yeah, I'm Bad, I'm bad"....

George Keoki Lake · Post by **George Keoki Lake** » 27 Apr 2016 8:54 am

That (huge) guitar Farron is playing was custom made for him in Edmonton, Aberta (Canada) by the late FRANK GAY who was an excellent guitarist/fiddler and craftsman.

Chris Templeton · Post by **Chris Templeton** » 8 May 2016 1:14 pm

Nice. Lloyd's right hand really moves around on the first part af this clip.

Larry Jamieson · Post by **Larry Jamieson** » 9 May 2016 4:19 am

Thanks, George for the info on Faron's guitar. I had never seen one like that before.

Charley Hill · Post by **Charley Hill** » 9 May 2016 4:56 am

Thanks for sharing this time piece. WOW

Amazed at the creativity still being produced by this guy. A true innovator and creator that the rest of us envy, still. A professional extraordinaire.

Charlie Hansen · Post by **Charlie Hansen** » 10 May 2016 10:27 am

George Keoki Lake wrote:That (huge) guitar Farron is playing was custom made for him in Edmonton, Aberta (Canada) by the late FRANK GAY who was an excellent guitarist/fiddler and craftsman.

I think Lefty Frizzell and Webb Pearce had some of Frank's guitars as well.

Tom Keller · Post by **Tom Keller** » 10 May 2016 4:20 pm

Was it true that Faron told Lloyd that he wasn't capable of carrying Jimmy Day's guitar case? This remark does seem apropos for Faron.