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Topic: Stand up Steel. |
Melinda Dauley
From:
Tacoma, Washington, USA
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Posted 24 Feb 2003 8:47 am |
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Who are the famous steel players who stand up. I have heard a few names mentioned but I think there are more?
Anyone have any info?
Melinda |
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Gene Jones
From:
Oklahoma City, OK USA, (deceased)
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Posted 24 Feb 2003 9:35 am
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| ...I stood up to play at the beginning when I played with Conway, but then I'm not famous so that don't count today. www.genejones.com |
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C Dixon
From:
Duluth, GA USA
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Posted 24 Feb 2003 9:48 am
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Jerry Byrd
Buddy Emmons
Leon McAuliff
Don Warden
Bob White
Little Roy Wiggins
Bobby Koeffer
Scores of Hawaiian type players, tooo many too mention. And many still do.
Don Helms
Jerry Douglass
Bashful Brother Oswald
Josh Graves
My mind is going blank. But I KNOW there are many more.
God bless them all, and all of you,
carl
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Bob Blair
From:
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Posted 24 Feb 2003 10:05 am
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| Big Jim Murphy stands when he is playing non-pedal - that's what he's done when I've seen him play anyway. And Junior Brown stands to play his Guit-Steel. |
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Ray Montee
From:
Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 24 Feb 2003 10:23 am
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Most likely, most of the older familiar names have done so at one time or another. The job they're doing, the style they're playing at the time, the kind of guitar they're pickin' on........all affect the answer.
Another way of looking at it...how many steel players that play standing up this day and age, have ever sat down to play? Hummmmmmmmm. |
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David Cobb
From:
Chanute, Kansas, USA
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Posted 24 Feb 2003 3:31 pm
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John Ely, formerly of Asleep at the Wheel , plays mostly non-pedal.
Also Cindy Cashdollar of Asleep at the Wheel, plays standing at a gorgeous Remington non-pedal guitar. |
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chas smith R.I.P.
From:
Encino, CA, USA
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Posted 24 Feb 2003 3:37 pm
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| Marion Hall, stand-up pedal Bigsby. |
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Jody Carver
From:
KNIGHT OF FENDER TWEED
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Posted 24 Feb 2003 4:20 pm
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Joaquin Murphey and Noel Boggs
Two of the greatest steel players of all time |
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Terry Wood
From:
Lebanon, MO
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Posted 24 Feb 2003 4:52 pm
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Melinda,
Kayton Roberts who played with the late Hank Snow of The Grand Ole Opry for years and Johnny Cox. I heard Johnny playing with ET about 1980 and boy could he rip it on the standup. Of course he's pretty good on about anything in the steel guitar line-up.
However, in my opinion Jerry Byrd is still the Master of Touch and Tone of the Standup Steel Players. Bud Tutmarc runs close to Byrd in a Gospel/Hawaiian style too.
May GOD bless you!
Terry Wood
I corinthians 1:18 |
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Larry Miller
From:
Dothan AL,USA
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Posted 24 Feb 2003 4:56 pm
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| Hey Miss Kitty, the guy from Bill Haley and the Comets played steel standing up. |
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Jody Carver
From:
KNIGHT OF FENDER TWEED
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Posted 24 Feb 2003 6:51 pm
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Larry
You are right and darn it,I cant remember his
name,I had taken a Fender steel guitar to Bill Haley's agent and manager a man by the name of Jolly Joyce. I didnt get to meet the steel player bit he called me and thanked me.
My memory is starting to fade.
So is my spelling 
[This message was edited by Jody Carver on 24 February 2003 at 06:52 PM.] |
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Jerry Overstreet
From:
Louisville Ky
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Posted 24 Feb 2003 7:13 pm
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Say Jody...have no personal knowledge about this, but I seem to remember in my research a couple years ago on the Comets that the best known steel player for the group was Billy Williamson...does that sound right to you?
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Harry Dietrich
From:
Robesonia, Pennsylvania, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 24 Feb 2003 8:14 pm
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Well I'm sure not famous, but I always stand to play. Non-pedal that is.
Harry  |
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Jody Carver
From:
KNIGHT OF FENDER TWEED
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Posted 24 Feb 2003 8:30 pm
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YES,,Jerry that's his name,,,
Thank you
Jody |
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R. L. Jones
From:
Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA
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Posted 24 Feb 2003 8:38 pm
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Cousin Jody stood with that lap steel, and would tear it up.
R.L. |
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George Keoki Lake
From:
Edmonton, AB., Canada
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Posted 24 Feb 2003 8:54 pm
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| Most, if not all steel players in Hawai'i stand up (and also sing) |
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