Emmon's practical joke

[Bill McCloskey]

I'm going through my instructional books and I see a copy of The Emmons Guitar Company presents "Learn to play the pedal Steel guitar on the 10 string E9th tuning", instructor Buddy Emmons.

Oh good, let's see what I can learn from old Buddy. Open the first page, yep: there is the E9th copedent and instructions on how to read the tab.

Turn to the first tune...an old favorite. Steel Guitar Rag.

I start to play....hmmmm. Something isn't right. What the heck is Buddy trying to tell me? Is this a John CAge arrangement of Steel Guitar rag?

Then it dawned on me. I played it on C6. Worked just fine. Someone at Emmons stapled the wrong covers on the Buddy Emmons instruction book!!

[Chris Templeton]

Another Buddy practical joke: At the end of a long week of Buddy teaching C6th at Jeffran ('86?), Buddy put a tape recorder, with a timer under the bunkhouse set to go off about 3 in the morning. The tape had Buddy playing licks.
He was experimenting with subliminal teaching.
Steve Paloucek and Mike Daly were there.

[Don R Brown]

I know Buddy was famous for gags and pranks, but I'm trying to understand how someone stapling the wrong covers on the book is a Buddy Emmons practical joke. Unless you're trying to say Buddy himself did it deliberately.

[Bill McCloskey]

I doubt Buddy was stapling the books, Don. Just a funny story. I've changed the title to Emmon's practical joke.

[Chris Templeton]

In Buddy's basement, he had a room that he assembled all his Swing Shift/Step One TAB, CD's. mailers, etc. for shipping,

[Bill McCloskey]

So maybe Buddy DID staple the wrong covers on. That makes it even funnier.

[Don R Brown]

I doubt Buddy was stapling the books, Don. Just a funny story. I've changed the title to Emmon's practical joke.

I doubt it too, Bill, but it IS a funny story.

[Ernie Renn]

I don't recall an Emmons Guitar Learn to Play course that had Buddy teaching Steel Guitar Rag. Maybe John Hughey, Russ Hicks, Jimmie Crawford or Doug Jernigan taught that one. Buddy wasn't part of the 52 Week courses...

[Bill McCloskey]

Here you go Ernie. Maybe they put a Buddy Emmons cover on a John Hughey lesson.

[Ernie Renn]

If you could copy the tab and the audio, I’d pay you for it.

(If you have an iPhone download Genius Scan. It works pretty good for scanning tab.)

Mail it to dirtprod@yahoo.com

Thank you!

[Bill McCloskey]

Hi Ernie. There is no audio, just the book

[Ernie Renn]

Please send me a copy! Digital is fine.

Thanks!