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Posted: 4 Nov 2021 10:49 am
When Jerry Byrd produced his limited edition Frypans with Shot Jackson, there were no more Jerry Byrd frypans to be made.
When I worked for Bobby Seymour at Steel Guitar Nashville, in ’88 or’89, I was given as part pay, a Jerry Byrd Frypan blank (no hardware).
When Sho~Bud went out of business, Bobbe got a hold of the frypan mold and had some poured. I don’t know how many and never heard of another one.
When I returned to Vermont, I glued a fretboard to it and installed a slanted bridge ,a Lawrence Pickup, a volume control, put on some tuners, a jack, and voila, my own Laptop Tapper.
I was in Joe Glaser's shop, in Nashville, around 1990 and he handed me a wide fretboard with guitar frets and asked me If I would like it? He had given it to Paul Franklin who had given it back to him. I took possession of it and headed out west to play dobro for Dan Hicks And His Acoustic Warriors.
In Concord, California, I stopped Tom Bradshaw's, who I had worked for it Scotty's.
I had Paul's fretboard and a Dekley double neck pedal steel. With Tom overseeing things, we put foam under the fretboard at attached it with 6 or 8 Allen screws.
The foam pushed up enough that any fretting didn't push the fretboard down.
When I was in Marin, I got a call to record on a record for Novato Frank at a studio in Cotati .
The track had guitars on it played by a posthumous, John Cipollina .
I had my Laptop Tapper with me, I demoed it, and Frank wanted me to record it on the track!
This a link to the track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dBKATGZXrI
When I worked for Bobby Seymour at Steel Guitar Nashville, in ’88 or’89, I was given as part pay, a Jerry Byrd Frypan blank (no hardware).
When Sho~Bud went out of business, Bobbe got a hold of the frypan mold and had some poured. I don’t know how many and never heard of another one.
When I returned to Vermont, I glued a fretboard to it and installed a slanted bridge ,a Lawrence Pickup, a volume control, put on some tuners, a jack, and voila, my own Laptop Tapper.
I was in Joe Glaser's shop, in Nashville, around 1990 and he handed me a wide fretboard with guitar frets and asked me If I would like it? He had given it to Paul Franklin who had given it back to him. I took possession of it and headed out west to play dobro for Dan Hicks And His Acoustic Warriors.
In Concord, California, I stopped Tom Bradshaw's, who I had worked for it Scotty's.
I had Paul's fretboard and a Dekley double neck pedal steel. With Tom overseeing things, we put foam under the fretboard at attached it with 6 or 8 Allen screws.
The foam pushed up enough that any fretting didn't push the fretboard down.
When I was in Marin, I got a call to record on a record for Novato Frank at a studio in Cotati .
The track had guitars on it played by a posthumous, John Cipollina .
I had my Laptop Tapper with me, I demoed it, and Frank wanted me to record it on the track!
This a link to the track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dBKATGZXrI
